Lyrics: All That Never Happens
Album: Love Among the Ruins
Artist: 10000 Maniacs
 

She walks alone on the brick lane
The breeze is blowing
A year had changed her forever
Just like her grey home

He used to live so close, here
We’d look for places I can’t remember
The world was safe when she knew him
She tried to hold him, hold on forever, hold on forever

For all that never happens
And all that never will be
A candle burning
For the love we seldom keep

The earth was raw in her fingers
She overturned it
Considered planting some flowers
They wouldn’t last long, no one to tend them

It’s funny how these things go
You were the answer to all the questions
The memories made her weary
She shuddered slowly, she didn’t want to, she didn’t want to

For all that never happens
And all that never will be
A candle burning
For the love we seldom keep

As a distant summer
He began to whisper
He threw a smile her way
She looked into the glass
Liquid surface showing
That they were melding together, present, past

So where can I go from here?
The color fading, he didn’t answer
She felt him slip from her vision
She tried to hold him, hold on forever, hold on forever

For all that never happens
And all that never will be
A fire burning
For the love we seldom keep

And for all that never happens
And all that never will be
So close forever
In a silent frozen sleep

Oooooh…
Oooooh…
Oooooh…
Oooooh…
Oooooh…
Aaaaah…