Story Behind The Song
Story was from Mike Brown: This song is being dedicated to his ex-wife Angela Kropp, with whom he wrote this song in early September 2008. On October 2, 2008 Angela was killed in an automobile accident and the irony of a song just written weeks prior too
Song Description
This is the point where you acknowledge the reality that the person you love either doesn't love you the same or is otherwise gone, and you let go of the person from your mind while acknowledging that you will always be affected by this lost love.
| Song Length |
5:30 |
Genre |
Pop - Easy Listening, Folk - Contemporary |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Moving, Heartbreaking |
Subject |
Lost Love, Breaking Up |
| Similar Artists |
Whitney Houston, Linda Ronstadt |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
"YOU'LL ALWAYS AFFECT ME"
By: Catherine Carney-Richman/Michael David Brown
Verse 1:
Have you ever thought about what you've done?
It just makes me want to cry
Do you know, how it feels, to love someone?
And still have to say goodbye?
I thought we were, the perfect painting
Each touch and tender stroke
Now I see, there's nothing left, remaining
but a mirror behind the smoke
PRECHORUS:
I've imploded and exploded
and re-enacted in my mind
In my perfect fairytale, when the guns were loaded
I still chose to be blind.
CHORUS:
I..... never thought that I'd get ..over you
Your embrace I'd no longer need...
I...... never thought this pain, could be soothed
These wounds would no longer bleed...
In, my mind, I set you free....
But, you will always.... Affect me....
Verse 2:
Awakened from this long sleep
I've come to realize
The place that I, thought was my, serenity
Was just a warehouse full of lies
The labyrinths in my nightmares
Led me to finally see
My mind's eye, was playing, tricks on me
Those illusions I now see
PRECHORUS:
I've imploded and exploded
and put myself through a thousand trials
In an obvious scary tale, when the guns were loaded
I buried my head in denial.
CHORUS:
I..... never thought that I'd, get over you
Your embrace I'd no longer need...
I...... never thought this pain, could be soothed
These wounds would no longer bleed...
In, my mind, I set you free....
But, you will always ...Affect me....
Verse 3:
Echoes ...once in the distance
I'm hearing loud and clear
I can dream again, and love with, no resistance
There is nothing more to fear.....