“Our memories, well, they can be inviting
But some are altogether mighty frightening
As we die, both you and I
With my head in my hands, I sit and cry…”

© Eric & Gwen Stefani, 1997 from the album “Tragic Kingdom”

Next up, from the forthcoming album, Time Demands... another one, a bit shorter this time, again in a bit of a virgin state as of this precise moment in time; just lyrics. I dont really have any notion yet what direction it is going to go in…. the metaphorical chicken bones that I’m throwing around the floor are suggesting possibly TalkTalk or a similar late 80s/early 90’s feel. Too early to say though. It will go where it will.

So what is it about? Its that part of coming out of a relationship that neither of you really wanted to come out of but felt that not only did you have no choice, but as soon as you made the decision, you knew you’d made the wrong choice. And sometimes, its better to just say nothing than say the wrong things and only make what was once, however briefly beautiful, tarnished and broken and worse as a result.

Or, to use a shorter phrase, “Some things are better left unsaid”.

Its about trying to get on with your life without getting bogged down with the past and trying to constantly go back over the slate of memories thinking and rethinking “…. ah but what if…. what if so-and-so hadnt been there when… I would have then have…” and the such like. The past has gone. Nothing can change it, and re-writing it does no one any favours, because the rewrite is a lie, no matter what prism you think you’re looking at it through. The past is still the same and is cast in stone from the moment that it happened.

Its not a case of Only The Victorious Get To Write History. Its perfectly ok to be able to see history objectively and be comfortable acknowledging if you have failed.

There is no dishonour in failure.. only in not having tried at all.

Say Nothing

Searching for your name
Through contacts and photographs
Wasnt there somewhere else where I needed to be?
Picking up all the shattered pieces
I’ve never ever known,
Never known a heart to feel so damn heavy.

Trying to find my way out of the dark
Can someone please tell me what Im supposed to have missed?
Is this the point I watch you leaving the park
Have you already forgotten the hope of love that was in my kiss?

Please… just say nothing
You dont need to say anything at all
The only person who could ever have helped me
Is the one who couldnt stand to stay and watch me fall

My little broken princess, its ok to be afraid
There is a time to heal from all these choices we have made
Its a road thats less travelled, its a window less viewed
So many ways to say I love you, but we only knew but a few

I try hard not to let you walk across my mind
I spent far too much time, trying to read between you and all the lines
You can drink til you dont remember and then cry yourself to sleep
But when you wake up with your feet over the edge
remember the promises that you alone swore that you’d keep…

© Lyrics Steve McCarthy-Hunt 2025