Robyn Landis: Listen

These lyrics sat in a notebook for seven years, unused and music-less. I handed them over, whole, to Larry Murante and within 24 hours he had the music. Our first co-write, easy as pie. I actually wrote this song for a friend of mine, not knowing at the time how prescient and universal it would turn out to be.

I can't believe in you
You're not even real
You're the one who taught me not to feel

I should run the other way
as far as I can get
mmmmmm.... but I haven't yet

There is beauty
that you never see
It's just not in your vocabulary

There are things that I should say
Friends are placing bets
mmmmm.... i havent yet


Our love is like our shadow
just around the bend
It's like a dry rain
and a calm wind


There was a time...
but it didn't last
there were a thousand points
we never passed

I've known you forever
and it's like we've never met
No, we haven't yet

Our love is like a secret
you cannot tell a friend
Like a dry rain
and a calm wind


BRIDGE
Not enough rain for anything to grow
just enough to make a few tears
A pile of dry leaves
that the wind won't blow away
just circling and circling for years


You know everything
except for who I am
We are lost
and you don't give a damn

You take the love I give you
but there's something you don't get
No, you haven't yet

You take the love I give you
but there's something I don't get
No, I haven't yet


Our love is like a shadow
just around the bend
it's like a secret you cannot tell a friend
Like a letter
you never think to send
Like a dry rain
and a calm wind