I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You

Album: Transcendental Highway (1998)
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  • I drink good coffee every morning
    It comes from a place that's far away
    And when I'm done I feel like talking
    Without you here there is less to say

    Don't want you thinking I'm unhappy
    What is closer to the truth
    Is that if I lived till I was a hundred and two
    I just don't think I'll ever get over you

    I'm no longer moved to drink strong whiskey
    I shook the hand of time and I knew
    that if I lived till I could no longer climb my stairs
    I just don't think I'll ever get over you

    Your face it dances and it haunts me
    your laughter is still ringing in my ears
    I still find pieces of your presence here
    even after all these years

    I don't want you thinking that i don't get asked to dinner
    cause I'm here to say that I sometimes do
    and even though I may seem to feel a touch of love
    I just don't think I'll ever get over you

    if I live till I was a hundred and two
    I just don't think I'll ever get over you Publisher: AMCOS (AUSTRALASIAN MECHANICAL COPYRIGHT OWNERS SOCIETY)
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Comments: 6

  • Chris from TorontoI lost my wife of 37 years last month. My bro-in-law sent me this song. I listened to it over and over for 5 hours solid. It is a magnificent piece about loss, played and sung with economy and emotion and deep, profound insight. Colin Hay may have written it about giving up drink but I can’t listen to it and not think of my wife. I made her coffee every morning for 37 years. No more. Beautiful music transcends. It captures depth in a way no other form of communication can. It is a gift. Thank you Colin Hay. Beautiful.
  • RrrYou are the one that's supposed to give meaning to the You. ;)
  • Steven Edwards from UkI lost Colin after his first solo album Looking For Jack and found him again 11 albums later when I saw him performing with Bare Naked Ladies. So much, thoughtful and emotional songs, many about hardship and loss but always quality whether it's album material or his live shows with great songs and stories.
  • Chris from IllinoisI find it hard to believe that this song is solely about his alcoholism.
  • Arfon Harry Williams from Wirral UkI have discovered Colin Hay ...via Overkill...then I heard this song.......speechless. Beautiful song..The 'you' for me was different of course..
  • Michael from Dundee Scotland I've listened to Collins music for years amazing voice would love to see him live. Unfortunately never see uk dates. But if we both could live to 102 I will then see you.
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