Lyrics: Donna Devine / Music composer & Piano: Nadia Cripps / Vocals: Gemma Louise Edwards / Cello: Billy Playle
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Story behind the song
Adult Contemporary/Folk (Finalist: 2009 UK International Songwriting Competition / Category: Open)
Lyrics
Kindness I Mainly Recall
(v1)
Sleepless, I gaze through the window
At roses growing close to the wall
Dew from the long night is forming
I know many petals will fall
Chorus
Grey is the colour of my true loves hair
His eyes are faded blue
The hands that I love, once hard and strong
Look bruised where the veins show through
Where did it go? When did it go?
We seemed not to notice at all
With the passing of years, the joy and the tears
Its kindness I mainly recall
(v2)
Our youth was the price of our wisdom
Yet the thought makes me smile late at night
For I know though these hours move slowly
In my heart, loves embers burn bright
Bridge
He's dreaming softly beside me
Once the lover who hid in my garden
Then came to my arms when the moon rose
And our bodies needed no pardon
Chorus
Grey is the colour of my true loves hair
His eyes are faded blue
The hands that I love, once hard and strong
Look bruised where the veins show through
Where did it go? When did it go?
We seemed not to notice at all
With the passing of years, the joy and the tears
Its kindness I mainly recall
2009 Donna Devine
