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Never Said

by Jared Knapik

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1.
Victoria 04:14
Hey, nice to see you, how have you been? It's been a lifetime, at least it feels like it has I wanted to call you but didn't know how I lost all my nerve when I moved to this town Regret how we left things, no big goodbye But you rest assured not a day goes by Where I don't recall you were always so sweet Holding the doors every time we would meet And now you're a point in my past A secret held close to the chest You're thought of sometimes, but darling, I quickly forget I moved from New England, had to escape I fled down the coast to just get away I needed a change so I packed up my life Despite all the things that meant leaving behind Now my hair hits the floor and my limbs taken root It feels like a lifetime I've waited for you Sweat soaks the sheets that I pull to my chin As I wait every night to be haunted again Now a piece of me always remains in the room where we met How time has a terrible way of slipping away You don't have to worry, your identity's safe I've packed any signs of you tightly away I'll take all my memories with me to the grave I'll call you Victoria, as if that were your name Just like that were your name
2.
I'll speak before this thing has run its course I've got a sneaking suspicious my time is running out And it feels like a knife buried deep in my side And for years this knot in my stomach's been tied So long I can't remember how this felt before at all And it feels like I knew you long ago, how time moves fast and slow When the hands of the clock cease to spin When the grains in the hourglass have gone with the wind Will you have made your peace with how we've changed? Or is there anything at all you want to say? Say it to me now Maybe I was thinking of only me I'm sure you had troubles all your own I just couldn't see myself And it feels like a lie buried deeply inside And at last this knot in my tongue has untied The words are free to flow, but nothing comes to mind And it feels like I knew you from an earlier time And this feels like I just lost the love of my life Soon I will be gone, and this pain struck from my life Would you hear me just for once? Tell me that you cared Give me a memory to take with me as I slip into that everlasting sleep And it feels like my breath's just been taken away And this feeling of loss I just don't think I can shake away Away, away from here I'll stay so I will never miss again Oh, my darling, if there's anything at all you want to say Say it to me now There's a sinking in my gut like Jack and Rose on a ship And a twisting like the ending of a Shyamalan flick I'll close my eyes and wait for this to end There's a turning in my heart like we're in Kansas no more And a tremor in my hands I can no longer ignore If there's anything at all you want to say, say it to me now
3.
Seasons Pass 04:46
Did you find what you were looking for? Have you had thoughts of coming back or are you content with where you're at these days? These are just nighttime thoughts This is just selfish talk and I'm well aware that I should be moving on I just can't quite keep the sunrise the dark night will soon be replaced by In my memory, it's just so hard to see I'll be lost until the season passes, I can't say when I loved you last is Nothing's worse than a love outlasted by memory I'll be better when the winter's over, but knowing you was so much colder Sometimes I feel so much older, I'm just tired all the time Have you heard what you've been waiting for? All this time spent forgetting laughs and unframing photographs You see, this is just hard to watch And now that there's no more talk, I'm well aware that I should be moving on I just can't bear the weight or the thought, or the way you so quickly forgot me And all our memories, they were so much more to me You can keep all your secrets safe And you can run 'til you're far away Away from all the things that kept you gone so long I can keep all my troubles close And we can go on like I never broke What memories?
4.
I blinked just in time to watch it all pass by By in front of me, it's been five years since we're 23 Remember when you said to me, "In five years and we'll be 30"? Is this how you wanted it to happen, or is this just a bad twist? If you were going to stop, why didn't you tell me before the tempered glass, it broke my fall? Would it have been so hard for you to warn me before my pulse was gone? Darlin', when the ambulance came howlin' And the color rushed back to your face When they sat you down and told you, "He was dead, dear, long before the fall" Now we're 29 and the years are flying by Without much courtesy, just rushing all my memories Remember what you said to me when I told you what you meant to me? Standing out there in the cold, I prayed this life to go slow You sat right next to me, still I was lightyears from your sympathy And you could hear me scream and pretend like nothing's happening You sat right next to me, still I was lightyears from your memory And you could hear me scream like it's nothing for me If you were going to stop, why didn't you tell me before the tempered glass, it broke my fall? Would it have been so hard for you to warn me before my pulse was gone? Darlin', when the ambulance came howlin' And the color rushed back to your face When they sat you down and told you, "He was dead, dear..." When they sat you down and told you I was dead, dear, "Long before the fall" "This was not your fault at all" "No, this was not your fault at all" Street lights and no one else around, just glass and metal on the ground Dead still, your heart the only sound pounding between the rain so loud Street lights and no one else around, just glass and metal on the ground Dead still, no heartbeat to be found, just rain falling all around
5.
Time To Go 03:32
I did this to myself, I don't know how to feel This self-conflicted wound I don't know how to heal You came into my life, made me care, then just checked out No, you don't get to do that You can't just come and go as you please Now all I think about is time, and how much I'll let pass by Before I say what's on my mind, until I let this feeling die I never really knew what I meant to you You never really let me know Now this heart aches like I've never known one is able to And this heart breaks at the very thought you maybe never knew Okay if you don't wish to see me down the line If I'm sure I've been heard, then how this ends is fine I haven't looked at pictures in, oh, so many years I just don't see the appeal to me re-shedding all these tears I never will forget you, but I think it's time to go Despite the way you cut me to the bone, you're never alone (Despite the way you hurt me) You're never alone (And even if you should be) You're never alone (Though you always thought you would be) You never are alone
6.
Take your time if that's what you need to make your mind up I've held my breath for so long, I've forgotten how to breathe Maybe now's the year you choose I've waited all this time for you, what's another night that I spend... Wondering if you are wondering about this, too? It's plagued me all these years, but somehow never bothered you I hope to see you on the holidays but never do Somehow, you are states away and never home on the holidays It's hard to say where this went wrong Did I take it off the rails, or was this thing cursed all along? Even now, with all these years now in between One mention of your name can take me right back where we were And have me... Despite all the pain, despite all this burning Despite all these tears, and the years I spent hurting I will always wonder where you are, and wonder how you got so far away Was this a place for which you never cared at all? Or maybe mine's a face that you just don't care to recall For old times' sake, would you like to have a drink with me? For old times' sake, baby you can have a drink then leave Baby, you can have a drink on me then leave

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2022 EP Never Said

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released December 9, 2022

Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by John Naclerio at Nada Recording, Montgomery, NY

Photography by Nancy Truehart
Artwork by Jared Knapik

All Songs Written by Jared Knapik
Jared Knapik: Vocals, Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals
Dustin Knapik: Backing Vocals
Matt Covey: Drums and Percussion
John Naclerio: Bass, Additional Guitar
Alex Brumel: Pedal Steel Guitar

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Jared Knapik is a songwriter from Northern Connecticut.

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