lyrics wasnt i joe

[neonico]

This is my favorite david sylvian song of all time.

Wasnt i joe.

I was strong myself when I started, in on you...
Wasn't I Joe? Normal strength?

Don't stay away tomorrow
I sense that somethings wrong
Don't stay away tomorrow
Don't stay away too long

And the minutes last a lifetime
They've mastered ways of moving slow
She took the children and the checkbook
Should I have really let her go?

Don't stay away tomorrow
Don't stay away too long

I was strong myself when I started, wasn't I Joe?

There's a moving recitation
Played out inside my head
With an eloquence I don't possess
I think its better left unsaid

Where's the examples that we needed
A man and wife who walk the line
Give me something to aspire to
Not in a lifetime, not in our lives

I was strong myself when I started, wasn't I Joe?

Don't stay away tomorrow
I know that somethings wrong
There's a silence I can't live with
Don't stay away too long

Today's the day before I met her
And these things pass unrecognized
These are the shoes, that was the workplace
And this the car in which we cried

Too many hours of conversation
I doubt there's anything left unsaid
No hope of reconciliation
Slowly pacing 'round my bed

And the walls hear no disturbance
The screaming from the insides too
She with left with everything we lived for
The everything of me and you

I was strong myself when I started, in on you...
Wasn't I Joe? Normal strength?

I was strong myself when I started, wasn't I Joe?
Wasn't I Joe?

Lifelines run throughout the notebooks
A life in letters scribbled out
There's no place left now for reflection
We're not leaving room for doubt

I've got you pictured in my mind love
You're off the bus and running free
I live with memories and the pretense
Ghosts of who we used to be

Found I'm nothing like my father
We'll wash the sheets as if I am
And you'll be nothing like my mother
Found abandoned in the plant

Wasn't I Joe?
Wasn't I Joe?

I was strong myself when I started, in on you...
Wasn't I Joe? Normal strength?

And sometimes life is frightening
And comes in strong
So I'm holding on for daylight
'Til something better comes along

'Til something better comes along
'Til something better comes along

[Sylvie]

thank you. this is truly one of my favourite songs, and the lyrics are quite fabulous.

[neonico]

thanks for thekind words itsmy favorite song as well

[godisinthesilences]

what a heart wrenching song. It is also one of my favourites. It is like watching a car accident...

[Astronaut]

what a heart wrenching song. It is also one of my favourites. It is like watching a car accident...

Well put Gods. Thanks Neonico, it's definitely one of my current favourites. Does anyone know where the "Wasn't I Joe ..." speech is sampled from? Is it a film?

[heartofdavid]

Does anyone know where the "Wasn't I Joe ..." speech is sampled from? Is it a film?

The lines are from "Eh Joe" (a piece for television) by Samuel Beckett - but I don't know which broadcast version that particular sample is from. So my reply is useless and doesn't answer your question, lol.

[neonico]

doesn t matter heartofdavid like your name sugesst its was from the heart thanks...

[Astronaut]

Thank you Hearts and it Does answer the question in a way: I didn't know it was from a production of Beckett. Many thanks!

[Sylvie]

http://www.bradcolbourne.com/eh_joe.html