Don't Say A Word - Phantom Limb

Don't Say A Word


Don't say a word
For I've already heard
It feels so good
But don't feel like it should
So don't say a word
Cos I've already heard
You are sweetness and charm
Without loving arms.

You are a soldier
Swimming up-stream
You are a shoulder
On which I should lean.
From what I can remember
You always looked keen
With the shimmer of the last
Fallin' light summer rain.

Don't say a word
For I've already heard
It feels so good
But don't feel like it should
So don't say a word
Cos I've already heard
You are sweetness and charm
Without loving arms.

You are the proud one,
Looking at me
Softly in the eyes
And rosy your cheeks
From what I can remember
You were never lame
Just a haze and a memory
And a distant pray.

Don't say a word
For I've already heard
It feels so good
But don't feel like it should
So don't say a word
Cos I've already heard
You are sweetness and charm
Without loving arms.

Don't say a word
Don't say a word
All I need is you love
Don't say a word

Don't say a word
For I've already heard
It feels so good
But don't feel like it should
So don't say a word
Cos I've already heard
You are sweetness and charm
Without loving arms.

Someone asked about this song and its lyric yesterday. Given this evening's frustration with posting images, etc. a bit of ab initio lyric-divining seemed quite an attractive alternative. The above is what I think the lyric is. I have listened to the album version many times - including several times just now - and also seen the band live on three occasions too. There may be variations, not least because of inaccuracies of transcription on my part, but also in live performances. If you get a chance to see Phantom Limb live then take it!

The new studio album is much awaited (the above is from their first, the self-titled Phantom Limb) and there is also a live album, recorded in their home city of Bristol in 2009.  Another outstanding track from this album, never more so than when performed live, is 'Withering Bones'; I might well add the lyric for that tomorrow.

Lyrics again - not just my obsession?

I love it that so many like lyrics too but it has certainly proven rather more of an interest than I imagined. I thought, when I first mentioned the matter, that all was doing was setting myself up for ridicule because it was merely of foible of mine.
It would seem that I was much mistaken. I will try to do my best but the list of requests is becoming as interesting as it is daunting, even for those that I have a reasonable chance of doing.  Here is today's list and they are all from albums that I have mentioned before and thus have only myself to blame.


'The Green Fields Of Canada' - Planxty (1974)
'Don't Say A Word' - Phantom Limb (2008)
Deranged - Stacee Lawson (2008)
That's a whole album, 'Deranged', and two songs. That is quite a lot of lyrics to do, so please don't expect them tomorrow!


Stacee Lawson's 'Deranged' includes a rather worthwhile cover of Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians' 'What I Am', originally from the equally worthwhile album 'Shooting Rubber Bands At The Stars' (1988).
Phantom Limb, while from Bristol more or less, are in LA and recording their second album.
The Facebook site I use-music-as-an-escape-from-my-problems has its merits too but is struggling, if not for attention then certainly diversity.  If anyone feels like writing a bit about music; any music that you like is just fine (or even that which you don't), and why, please feel free to join in and add something.  It is not a scary prospect, I can assure you of that, and if you choose to add something slightly challenging then that is all the better.