Old Song Lyrics

Jean-Paul VERNERET

20/07/1998

Verse 1
I found inside an old brown box
Two hundred songs from long ago
At least thirty years of dust
They’d been waiting there so low

I stumbled back on wrinkled sheets
By pure chance, without a plan
Words that slept where shadows meet
Like dreams no one quite understands

Verse 2
There were crosses, pauses, breaks
Choruses that never came
Fragments of my past mistakes
Time had failed to wipe their names

Bridge

I read them back, I couldn’t swear
Hearing the voice I used to be
And in that mirror, standing there
I understood so clearly

Chorus

I found those long-forgotten songs
Like shattered light from other years
Words that waited all along
To be sung — and now they’re here

Verse 3
I found again those yellowed pages
Written late, when nights ran deep
When we promised different stages
Other lives we couldn’t keep

Blindly chasing missing chords
Sentences that lost their way
Truths we buried under floors
So the present wouldn’t break

Verse 4
Chords dissolved into the air
Words we never dared confess
Bits of sorrow, traces fair
Coming back with tenderness

Bridge

I read them back, I couldn’t swear
Hearing the voice I used to be
And in that mirror, standing there
I understood so clearly

Chorus

I found those long-forgotten songs
Like shattered light from other years
Words that waited all along
To be sung — and now they’re here