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A Life With No Joy In It

from Very Great by HAMM.

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lyrics

You were a tarpaulin
On which I projected a silent movie
Of shadow and light

It wasn’t often
In fact you never once said you loved me
But that wasn't quite

What I wanted
What I wanted
When I loved you
When I thought
Shutting up was just what I should do
Because I saw that
That you no longer felt it
But could almost get used to that
You could always lie
I could always get by
By just feeling nothing

Because once I'd felt it
It was only a matter of time
It was only a matter of time
Before it went
Before I lost it
and this feeling of being upset
was the only return i could get
on the time i’d spent

I never thanked you
You left me with so many happy memories
That I've got stored away

You didn’t have to
You could have ended it more abruptly
But you chose to stay

Which I wanted
Which I wanted
When I loved you
Because I thought
Shutting up was just what I should do
And I saw that
That you no longer felt it
But I almost got used to that
And by the time we were done
This was almost as fun
As us being nothing

but I guess we lost it
and if i'm no longer bereft
it’s because there’s not anything left
to discuss

and it might be impossibly sad
But it's more than the nothing we had
Ahead of us

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from Very Great, released October 27, 2016
composed, performed, arranged by Theda Hammel

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Theda Hammel lives in New York City

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