Songs Never Sung

JESSE HARRIS
Songs Never Sung

SIDE A
1. Doesn’t Matter Anyway
2. Untouchable
3. I’ve Got To See You Again
4. Old Town
5. People Tell Me
6. Without You
SIDE B
7. Bending Over Backwards
8. It’s Not Too Late To Turn Back
9. Song Never Sung
10. Misunderstanding
11. It Must Be Nice
12. You’ll Forget Me

All songs by Jesse Harris C2019
(Beanly Songs (BMI)/Sony/ATV Tunes LLC)

Except “You’ll Forget Me” by Sasha Dobson
(Elise Music (BMI))

Horn arrangements by CJ Camerieri

Jesse Harris – vocals, acoustic guitar, acoustic 12 string guitar
CJ Camerieri – trumpet, flugelhorn, french horn
Bill Frisell – electric guitar, acoustic 12 string guitar
Kenny Wollesen – drums, percussion, marimba
Tony Scherr – upright and electric bass, electric guitar
Michael Boschen – trombone
Hideaki Aomori -clarinet, bass clarinet

Produced by Jesse Harris
Recorded in 2019 by Ryan Kelly, James Yost and Ed McEntee at Secret Sun West
Mixed by Ryan Kelly at Secret Sun East
Mastered by Stephen Marcussen

1. DOESN’T MATTER ANYWAY

I don’t know what you mean
There’s so much meaning in between
The small apologies you try to say
But it doesn’t matter anyway

Cause it’s all said and done
Like a cocktail in the sun
You forgot to drink and never paid
But it doesn’t matter anyway

I don’t want to walk
And I don’t want to talk
We’ll just have to go our separate ways

Till the world spins again
And the time turns on its end
We can meet in dreams but never stay
And it doesn’t matter anyway
No it doesn’t matter anyway
It doesn’t matter anyway

2. UNTOUCHABLE

Untouchable
Like a moon
Lonely in the sky
There must be somewhere you belong

Untouchable
Out of tune
Reeling down the line
Some god above may hear your song

Now there’s time to count mistakes
But that would be a waste
Such a waste

Untouchable
And all so soon
Suddenly you’re gone
Life is short and memory is long
Life is short and is memory is long

3. I’VE GOT TO SEE YOU AGAIN

Lines on your face don’t bother me
Down in my chair when you dance over me
I can’t help myself
I’ve got to see you again

Late in the night when I’m all alone
I look at the clock and I know you’re not home
I can’t help myself
I’ve got to see you again

I could almost go there
Just to watch you be seen
I could almost go there
Just to live in a dream

But no I won’t go for any of those things
To not touch your skin is not why I sing
I can’t help myself
I’ve got to see you again

I could almost go there
Just to watch you be seen
I could almost go there
Just to live in a dream

But no I won’t go to share you with them
But oh even though I know where you’ve been
I can’t help myself
I’ve got to see you again
I can’t help myself
I’ve got to see you again

4. OLD TOWN

Down in Old Town we could walk
Through the hazy smoke of kitchens
Passing all the trinkets shops
Floating down the river of the crowd

With you here I’d find my way
But I don’t know where to go now
Wish that you’d come back today
For a while or till the sun burns out

Cause Old Town isn’t half as fun
If there’s no one you can give a kiss
In Old Town it seems like everyone
Has got someone to spend their time with

Down in Old Town we could stroll
Hand in hand or arm in arm now
Slowly every minute rolls
Till you come and meet me in Old Town
Till you come and meet me in Old Town

5. PEOPLE TELL ME

People tell me don’t look back
The past’s far behind
But I keep on looking
Like there’s something to find

They tell me remember
That I should forget
I’ve tried to succeed
But I still haven’t yet

Now that there’s nothing before me
But a long wide open road
Emptiness all around me
Without an end for all I know

People tell me don’t worry
It’s all for the best
If I could believe them
I’d settle for less
Yes if I could believe them
I’d settle for less
Yes if I could believe them
I’d settle for less

6. WITHOUT YOU

So you roam and you roam
You say that no place is your home
So I will roam too
I don’t want to stay without you

Nothing here nothing here
Time for me to disappear
If love won’t come through
I don’t want to stay without you

And I know
Anyplace I go
All I see all I see
Is you there in front of me
Do dreams ever come true?
I don’t want to stay without you
I don’t want to stay without you
I don’t want to stay without you

7. BENDING OVER BACKWARDS

Bending over backwards
To be accommodating
Bending over backwards
Never once put up a fight
Bending over backwards
Without hesitating
You’ve been bending over backwards all your life

Walking on a razor
Slip and it will cut you
Walking on a tightrope
It’s such a long way down
Walking through the fire
Trying to prove that it can’t touch you
You’ve been walking through the fire on your own

Bending over backwards
You make it look so easy
Cause you’re bending over backwards all your life
Bending over backwards
In the mirror you won’t see it
But you’re bending over breaking up inside

Bending over backwards
You have to be so pleasing
They can hear you laugh but never hear you cry
Cause you’re bending backwards all the time

8. IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO TURN BACK

It’s not too late to turn back
And give up on the attack
The undeniable fact is as clear as the sun

It’s not too late to turn back
It’s not too late to turn back
It’s not too late to turn back and walk
Or you’ll have to run

It’s true you’ve traveled so far
But do you know where you are?
You watched your unlucky star die like a shot from a gun

It’s not too late to turn back
It’s not too late to turn back
It’s not too late to turn back and walk
Or you’ll have to run

Sooner or later you’d see
But you’d no longer be free
And you’d be missing the open sea saying what have I done?

It’s not too late to turn back
It’s not too late to turn back
It’s not too late to turn back and walk
Or you’ll have to run
You’ll have to run
You’ll have to run
You’ll have to run

9. SONG NEVER SUNG

A little song never sung
On the lips of anyone
Another season already come and gone
And all the people already moving on

A distant planet floating by
I see it fading in the sky
A burning question I would like to know
Why you and me we had to say hello

Like a flower you stand
In the water and hand me your petals
That keep falling down falling

You climbed a mountain in the clouds
Went to the top
But you never came down

Another evening gone by so slow
Cause you and me we had to say hello

Like a flower you stand
In the water and hand me your petals
That keep falling down falling
Falling down falling

10. MISUNDERSTANDING

We had no misunderstanding
No we had no signals crossed
I’m afraid I won’t get back
The time I lost

It wasn’t miscommunication
Making anything unclear
Was no mistake
The hours you left me waiting here

I wish there had been some confusion
To explain this hurt away
But what would change?
There’s still only this to say
We had no misunderstanding

11. IT MUST BE NICE

It must be nice to really know
That somebody cares where you’ve been
And where you go
And when you you’re coming home

It must be nice to really feel
A love that’s yours alone and not to share
A love that’s real
With rhythm like a poem

Days and nights walking on your own
No one to warm you
When you’re tired and cold down to the bone

It must be nice but hard to see
When somebody’s there in front of you
How could it be
So plain and clearly shown?

Days and nights walking on your own
Past every heartbreaker, faker and taker
On ground where nothing’s grown

It must be nice but if it’s true
Why so many sad and unfulfilled
And lonely too
And rolling like a stone?