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What We Never Said
Some things get carried instead of spoken. "What We Never Said" lives in that quiet — the kitchen after the plates are cleared, the porch light left on, the door that stays half open long after someone has stopped waiting. Richard Dall sings it slow, in a warm baritone that sounds like a man choosing his words and then setting them down unsaid.
This is a song about the distance between two people who still love each other. A father and a son who never learned how to start. Two hands that reached and missed. The story doesn't shout. It sits close, mid-tempo and steady, and lets the silence do the aching. There is regret here, but no self-pity — only the plain weight of things left in the throat.
"The hardest words are the ones we hold."
It's for anyone who has driven home rehearsing a conversation that never happened. For the ones who love in actions and go quiet in words. For anyone learning, late, that some silences cost more than they save. Country-soul in its bones, honest to the last line, it asks you to say the thing while you still can.
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We had the love, we lost the words, Two open hearts that never heard. I thought you knew, you thought I'd stay, And all the meaning slipped away. It wasn't the love, it was what we never said, The hopes we kept like secrets in our head. I wanted forever, you wanted today, And neither of us found the words to say. You drew a line I couldn't see, I built a home you'd never be. Same bed, two different dreams, Tearing quiet at the seams. If we'd just talked, if we'd just known, We wouldn't be two strangers on our own. Love ain't enough when the truth goes unsaid, It dies in the space of what we never said. It wasn't the love, it was what we never said, The hopes we kept like secrets in our head.