All That Never Happens Lyrics by 10000 Maniacs

All That Never Happens Lyrics

    She walks alone on the brick lane
    The breeze is blowing
    A year had changed her forever
    Just like her grey home

    He used to live so close, here
    We'd look for places I can't remember
    The world was safe when she knew him
    She tried to hold him, hold on forever, hold on forever

    For all that never happens
    And all that never will be
    A candle burning
    For the love we seldom keep

    The earth was raw in her fingers
    She overturned it
    Considered planting some flowers
    They wouldn't last long, no one to tend them

    It's funny how these things go
    You were the answer to all the questions
    The memories made her weary
    She shuddered slowly, she didn't want to, she didn't want to

    For all that never happens
    And all that never will be
    A candle burning
    For the love we seldom keep

    As a distant summer
    He began to whisper
    He threw a smile her way
    She looked into the glass
    Liquid surface showing
    That they were melding together, present, past

    So where can I go from here?
    The color fading, he didn't answer
    She felt him slip from her vision
    She tried to hold him, hold on forever, hold on forever

    For all that never happens
    And all that never will be
    A fire burning
    For the love we seldom keep

    And for all that never happens
    And all that never will be
    So close forever
    In a silent frozen sleep

    Oooooh...
    Oooooh...
    Oooooh...
    Oooooh...
    Oooooh...
    Aaaaah...

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