Unreleased Songs

Vashti Bunyan Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.I Don't Know What Love Is

Lyricist:Vashti Bunyan

I don't know what love is, I can't say
What it is that makes me feel this way
But when I look at you it's then I know
That I could follow you wherever you go

Oh, I don't know what love is but it seems
That every night you creep into my dreams
Then comes bright new morning and in my heart
I know it's one day closer to when we will part

But then you come and then I know
That I won't ever want you to go

Oh, I don't know what love is, I never will
But when you're gone from me I know I'll still
Want you to be with me and wonder why
There never was a love for you and I


2.Autumn Leaves

Lyricist:Jennifer Vashti Bunyan

In the morning when I walk along
And it's been raining all night
It seems the rain is all the tears that I cried last night

When I walk along through autumn leaves
That must have fallen last night
It seems the leaves are all the tears that I cried at night

If he doesn't come back soon
The streets will never be dry
If he doesn't come back, the road-sweeper
Will never clear away my tears

And I know, I just won't sleep tonight
I'll watch the rain and hear the wind
Blowing all my tears down to the street


3.Wishwandrer

Lyricist:Jennifer Vashti Bunyan

You ask me where I live
Don't you know I live here now?
But where is my one real home?
This minute with you now

Home is where I stayed last night
Tomorrow's anywhere
If you let me stay with you tonight
Tomorrow's home will be here

Home has been so many roads
That I walk down in my sleeping
Here with you, I'm home at last
But it's not home for my keeping

You won't miss me when I'm gone
This isn't my place
And my loves are few and don't belong
To any one lover's face

So don't ask me where I'll go
If you do I will lie to you
But I'll tell you of the place
That is never my home
Where I've lived all my life

Where I sing
A wishwandrer's song
A wishwandrer's song
A wishwandrer's song


4.How Do I Know

Lyricist:Vashti Bunyan

How do I know that those mountains aren't cardboard?
How do I know that the world is round?
Why should I know? Just because you've told me
There's molten rock underneath my ground

How do I know there's a God in the sky
Looking down and hearing me?
Why should you say, I can't love any man
Have his children and still be free?

Go on voting, striking and fighting
Go on searching, hiding and laughing

I can't change you, I can't even try
But let me live like I think I can
Then when it's time for me to say goodbye
I'll have lived just a part of man

Go on voting, striking and fighting
Go on searching, hiding and laughing

I can't change you, I can't even try
But let me live like I think I can
Then when it's time for me to simply die
I'll have lived just a part of man


5.17 Pink Sugar Elephants

Lyricist:Vashti Bunyan, Jenny Lewis

I saw seventeen pink sugar elephants
Sitting under a chestnut tree
I said good morning pink sugar elephants
But they wouldn't speak to me

Each had two eyes but they couldn't see me there
Each had four legs but they couldn't go anywhere
And so we just sat that early autumn morning
Sun not yet risen and magic everywhere

I walked up to one pink sugar elephant
Asked why wouldn't he speak to me
But he was a factory made pink sugar elephant
Given to children for treats after tea

He had two eyes but he couldn't see me there
He had four legs but he couldn't go anywhere
And so we just sat that early autumn morning
Sun not yet risen and magic everywhere

Why would I ever think an elephant
Made of sugar would speak to me?
But what were seventeen pink sugar elephants
Doing under a chestnut tree?


6.Someday

Lyricist:Vashti Bunyan

I love you, you love me
But somehow we're not happy
So it seems if we don't part
We'll stay in love unhappy

But if I leave you and you leave me
We'll start to want each other
And we'll think back to the love we had
And we'll think of it as happy

So it will go on till the day we realize
That love needn't always mean happiness

So think of all the time to come
Other things can make us happy
And with no illusions our love will live
And someday, someday, someday we'll be happy


7.Love You Know

Lyricist:Vashti Bunyan

I don't say I'll love you forever, baby
I don't say I'll love you forever
But I know that I love you now

Dunno what tomorrow will bring, baby
Dunno what tomorrow will bring
But I hope it can be like now

When you're near me
I want it to stay that way
But if a new dawn breaks
Please understand, baby

I can't say I'll love you forever
Though I want to love you forever
I can only say that I love you now


8.Find My Heart Again

Lyricist:Vashti Bunyan

Ever since you said goodbye
I haven't known what to do
'Cause I haven't wanted to try
To find myself someone new
'Cause I just want to be with you

How can I give myself to somebody else yet?
So I'll just stay alone
Until I get over you and the love we knew
And I find my heart again

I know it wouldn't be fair
To love someone new
'Cause I'd only want you to be there
And make believe he was you
'Cause I just want to be with you

How can I give myself to somebody else yet?
So I'll just stay alone
Until I get over you and the love we knew
And I find my heart again


9.Don't Believe

Lyricist:Jennifer Vashti Bunyan

You say that you'll always love me
That you'll never leave me blue
Don't you know that, that's all fallacy?
Don't you know it's not true?

You may want the love they talk about
But it isn't like they say
You will find that come tomorrow
You won't feel this way

When you say that you're in love with me
Do you really know what you mean
Or are you saying it because you've heard of it
Or because of something you've seen?

Oh, don't believe that love brings happiness
Gone tomorrow here today
Love involves so much unhappiness
Don't believe what they say


10.If In Winter (100 lovers)

Lyricist:Vashti Bunyan, Alasdair Clayre

If in winter, he should change and leave me
I'd let him go and learn to do without him
Oh, I'd have a hundred lovers
And my heart would not be broken
And all the lies he's spoken
I'd whisper to the others

Oh, it's winter now and he has changed and left me
I let him go and now I am without him
I don't want a hundred lovers
And my heart it is so broken
And all that lies he's spoken
I whisper to myself


11.Train Song

Lyricist:Jennifer Vashti Bunyan, Alasdair Clayre, Jenny Lewis

Traveling North, traveling North to find you
Train wheels beating, the wind in my eyes
Don't even know what I'll find when I get to you
Call out your name love, don't be surprised

It's so many miles and so long since I've met you
Don't even know what I'll find when I get to you
But suddenly now, I know where I belong
It's many hundred miles but it won't be long

What will I do if there's someone with you
Maybe someone you've always known
How do I know I can come and give to you?
Love with no warning and find you alone

It's so many miles and so long since I've met you
Don't even know what I'll find when I get to you
But suddenly now, I know where I belong
It's many hundred miles and it won't be long


12.I Want To Be Alone

You know there are times
When I don't need you
But you seem to think it means
Don't love you but I do
But sometimes I want to be alone
Somewhere on my own

I don't know why it is but I sometimes feel
That I have to get away, yet I know I love you
But sometimes I want to be alone
Somewhere on my own

Don't make me stay to walk aimlessly
Hand in hand
Just today set me free
Let me be alone

Tomorrow I may feel that I can't go through
Even one more lonely hour without you
Yet it's true that sometimes I have to be alone
Let me be alone