Solamente song
by Jamie O’Reilly and Michael Smith
Recorded on Swimming Deeper
I wrote this lyric as a journal entry at Urbis Orbis, a hipster coffeeshop in Chicago’s Wicker Park in winter of 1993. It was where I went after the gym, when I had a broken heart, and my kids were at school and I didn’t know where else to go. The comedian Fred Armisen was my waiter. He had a nice smile. I showed the journal page to songwriter Michael and he asked if he could put music to it. It was our first collaboration. It is the theme of my first solo album, (after the Irish songs in 1984)
On CD BABY. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jamieoreilly
Listen to Solamente
Solamente
I left you a while ago
between the “I’m not sure”
And “I’m confused”
Or was it the way you cried
When our summer turned to winter
Frosted windows, icy beds
Whatever. I sort of left for good
Left the soul of me that was stitched so tight
Inside the soul of you
If I could take a journey
I wouldn’t go far away
I’d sit down in a coffeeshop
And dream my cares away
If I had a rubber ceiling
In the room that was my heart
Maybe I’d bounce back But that throbber, mi Corazon,
is more a basket-weave
It’s made of wicker, straw
It only holds the fragile things
It ain’t equipped for your gumbo of grief
Just can’t hold that soup
My heart it has ears and it has eyes
Hmmm
If I could take a journey
I wouldn’t go far away
I’d sit down in a coffeeshop
And dream my cares away
I left you a while ago
In the afterbirth that is this life
Is this life. And it is my life.
Mi vida. Solamente
Mi Corazon. Solamente
If I could take a journey
I wouldn’t go far away
I’d sit down in a coffeeshop
And dream my cares away
