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Lyr Req: Recently Lonesome by Selah

29 Nov 21 - 12:06 AM (#4127502)
Subject: Lyr Req: Recently Lonesome by Selah
From: GUEST,Lin

Hope someone can provide the lyrics for this obscure song called, "Recently Lonesome" by a female American singer named Selah.
It is from her 1972 LP titled, "Sweet William of the West."
She has a beautiful voice!

29 Nov 21 - 01:25 AM (#4127504)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Recently Lonesome by Selah
From: Joe Offer

Yes, she does have a beautiful voice, but hard to understand. Want to try your hand at it, Lin, and then we'll help with the rest?

01 Dec 21 - 01:13 AM (#4127685)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Recently Lonesome by Selah
From: NightWing

Here's what I got.

I can hear the silence between us
I can tell you what it means
I am not the lonely child I once was
I have learned from the death of my dreams

- CHORUS -
Ah but spring will always come after winter
And love is always done when it's through
But where will my soul find its center
When until now I revolved around you

I can feel empty beside me
The place in my arms where you once lay
No more ... solace ... hide me
No longer find a refuge from the day

- CHORUS -
Oh but spring will always come after winter
And love is always done when it's through
But where will my soul find its center
When until now it revolved around you

I can see lying before me
The years free of sadness, free of tears
Knowing the dream that runs between us
Will live beyond my weakness and my fears

- CHORUS -
Yes, and spring will always come after winter
And love is always done when it's through
But where then will my soul find its center
When even now I revolve around you

I can't quite make out that third line in the second verse. The rest I'm pretty sure of.

She sings the chorus slightly different each time. If I were doing it, I would make them the same each time in order to make "even now" in the final chorus more emphatic.

BB,
NightWing

01 Dec 21 - 07:53 AM (#4127710)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Recently Lonesome by Selah
From: GUEST, Lin

To Nightwing,

Thank you very much for taking the time to write the lyrics.
I had the same problem in trying to figure out the lines of the song that you did.
I appreciate your help.
By the way, did you like her voice?
Sort of reminds me of Joan Baez's voice in the 1960's.

Lin