You Too from The Overflow by Humphreys & Keen
Graeme Humphreys here.
This song is way too personal to give you any realistic insight to. Musically I wanted to play a trick. Change key without anybody noticing, then create a chorus that could be superimposed over its own verse, without anybody noticing. Each key represents a real person. Enough.
Tracklist
| 6. | You Too | 3:53 |
Lyrics
Dream, all dreams are free.
But they don't all go as we planned.
I think of you always, can't forget the warm touch of your hand.
I dreamed life babe, followed all the shifts in the sand.
Spoke the same words, that you say.
This end I don't understand.
Stay here with me.
Rest in my arms.
Lay down and sleep.
Stay here with all your qualms.
Now try to explain, why this turns to dust in my hands.
Why it runs like sand through my fingers,
can't retain one grain of sand.
Stay here with me.
Rest in my arms.
Lay down and sleep.
Stay here with all your charms.
I want you too.
Turn to me and say this is not true.
Credits
Humphreys/Keen
License
All rights reserved.
Graeme Humphreys & Peter Keen were the primary songwriting partnership of the critically acclaimed Able Tasmans, an NZ band in the Flying Nun stable that produced 4 albums & one EP.
Named from the A B Paterson character Clancy of the Overflow, the ideas are drawn from many sources; Australian outback poetry; magic realism; a train between Bologna & Firenze; & our dark little rainy island.