All the Things I Never Said

Keith Landry

There’s a line in an Indigo Girls song that says, “If you need to know that you weathered the storm of cruel mortality, a hundred years later I’m sitting here living proof.” For me, ever since hearing the words “cruel mortality,” they have always lived just under the surface everywhere I go. So one night, I grabbed my seldom-used nylon string travel guitar with this on my mind.

ALL THE THINGS I NEVER SAID

Cruel mortality is taking me away from you
And all the thing you never said we’d do
And all the things I never said
In reality, I tried so hard to hide the truth
Never left a shred of proof
I burned it all instead

Off I’ll go
And you’ll never know

So, what’s left of me and what I never meant to you?
And all the things you never said we’d do?
And all the things I never said?
Cruel mortality is taking me away from you
And all the things you never said we’d do
And all the things I never said