Dylan Rice: Music

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BARELY KNEW YOU
Music and lyrics © Dylan Rice

I took you home and then you took my heart away
Some danceclub hook-up but I wanted you to stay
Your skin smelled so familiar, your kisses tasted right
I barely knew you and I let my heart get away

Away, away, away, away,
Barely knew you, barely knew you

You said you’d take me places where all the people go
We’d stain our lips with wine and talk Mies Van Der Rohe
I know a stranger’s promise is as good as—well, you know
But I believed you with no evidence to show

[CHORUS]
Oh away
Oh away
Oh away
I can’t negotiate that you’re not my trick and I’m not your lover

Away, away, away, away
Barely knew you, barely knew you

My heart is stuck inside your long black leather coat
My heart is hanging in your puff of Camel smoke
My heart is all around you, and you just don’t even know
How could I be so stupid to give you the control

REPEAT CHORUS

[BRIDGE]
So many times I would lock my heart outside of the bedroom
But your kindest touch triggers open my love at the first sigh

When we made love it wasn’t love that we had made
We must have conjured something tender in its place
So young and swingin’ casual, what else could you do?
I barely knew you and I let my heart get away

REPEAT CHORUS