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Want to get it all behind me
You know everything reminds me
I can't be myself without you
Want to crawl down deep inside
The springs inside the mattress
Where I cry my dirty secrets
'Cause I just can't shake this feeling
That I'm nothing in your eyes
And if I knew heartbreak was coming
I would've set out running
Past the city houses
And the ditches on the highway
Weave between the seasons
Under bridges in the valley
'Til the winds out on the prarie
Whipped the tears from my eyes
Want to get it all behind me
You know everything reminds me
I can't be myself without you
Want to crawl down deep inside
The springs inside the mattress
Where I cry my dirty secrets
'Cause I just can't shake this feeling
That I'm nothing in your eyes
Well if I knew heartbreak was coming
I would've set out running
Across the muddy river
And the smokestacks on the bank
Swallow that horizon
Hunger beyond hunger
'Til the cloudy blue Pacific
Took the air in my lungs
And if I knew heartbreak was coming
I would've set out running
'Cause I just can't shake this feeling
That I'm nothing in your eyes
You know everything reminds me
I can't be myself without you
Want to crawl down deep inside
The springs inside the mattress
Where I cry my dirty secrets
'Cause I just can't shake this feeling
That I'm nothing in your eyes
And if I knew heartbreak was coming
I would've set out running
Past the city houses
And the ditches on the highway
Weave between the seasons
Under bridges in the valley
'Til the winds out on the prarie
Whipped the tears from my eyes
Want to get it all behind me
You know everything reminds me
I can't be myself without you
Want to crawl down deep inside
The springs inside the mattress
Where I cry my dirty secrets
'Cause I just can't shake this feeling
That I'm nothing in your eyes
Well if I knew heartbreak was coming
I would've set out running
Across the muddy river
And the smokestacks on the bank
Swallow that horizon
Hunger beyond hunger
'Til the cloudy blue Pacific
Took the air in my lungs
And if I knew heartbreak was coming
I would've set out running
'Cause I just can't shake this feeling
That I'm nothing in your eyes
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This was probably the first Neko solo track I heard and one that had the greatest impact.
Of all the CDs and vinyl that I own and all the songs on them, this one will always be the one I think of when I think of the word "forlorn". That's an incredible voice she has.
The lines: "cause I just can't shake this feeling that I'm nothing in your eyes" are just amazing.
The lines: "want to crawl down deep inside the springs inside the mattress where l cry my dirty secrets"
seem almost country-cliche but don't come across that way when I actually listen to the song.
This is one of the few songs I can't listen to because it's good enough to feel personal every time. It's so good. Makes you want to be somewhere else.