I like writing lyrics to music I like, especially jazz groups I like.

Well, this song particularly moved me (after I wrote it), so I thought I'd post it here. It's sad, but that was what I was trying to capture: the loneliness and despair of love gone wrong.

It's from the Rippington's instrumental piece (I Saw Her) Walk Away. If you listen to it on YouTube, ( YouTube Version ) the verses start at the times indicated:

(I watched her) Walk Away

[0:16]

In those times when our love felt sublime

We were both floating on air;

All our days shone so bright they amazed she
melted my cares.

[0:32]

Her smile covered all the
doubts that grew deep down in my trembling heart.

I knew I loved her, I took care of her;
something was falling apart

[0:49]

Days went by and the clouds in the sky

Took away more of the blue

And her smile had been dying a while it
faded from view

[1:05]

What’s wrong I can’t hear the song
we’ve sung since we first became me and you?

What have I done you’re not the same one that
I once thought I clearly knew.

[1:22]

[Chorus 1]

Please don’t take your heart from me

My world will crumble to ashes and dust

Don’t you know if you become free
I will die but I’ll breathe ‘cause I must
stumble on

[Interlude]

[2:56]

Words turn to frowns smiling upside down

I’m numb: pain freezes the warmth of the sun

The day has become a dark night

[3:08]

Don’t you see you are distancing me;
I’m falling further behind

I cry she will not listen to me
her eyes have turned blind

[3:24]

Ice cold took our love and holds me

Frozen in time she’ll no longer stay

She took the warmth “I am leaving” she told me

Then I watched her walk away

[3:41]

Now I’m alone remem’bring

Beautiful love that we shared every day

Sadness is all each new day brings

I must rise up and find another way

[3:56]

Trapped in my thoughts my heart breaks

It felt so right but our love wasn’t real

I tried to give; you could just take

I’ll go on but I’ll take time to heal

And you’re gone…