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Somebody Save Me (From Loving You)

from Diving Grace by David Nyro

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We all know the feeling: falling in love with someone again, but wounds still fresh from a heartbreak. Or you find yourself falling in love with someone who you KNOW is not going to be good for you, repeating past patterns of choosing the wrong lovers. I wrote this from a desperate place of truly wanting to be saved and not fall in love, or stay in love, with a specific partner. I felt my very life depended on it and that's no overstatement. Joni Mitchell's "Help Me" came to mind as this song was coming out. It's very old school. Yeah, they don't make 'em like this anymore. I also thought about the songs of Johnny Hartman, with, and without John Coltrane. I suppose Mel Torme, Chet Baker, Tony Bennett, Diana Krall are in the mix too. Thanks for listening. Hope you dig.

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Somebody Save Me (From Loving You)
© 2016 by David Nyro

Somebody save me from loving you
Somebody save me from loving you

I don’t know how this got started
At least that’s what I tell myself
There was a glance a dance
and the sun in your smile

But we know what they say
about flying too close to the sun


Chorus: Somebody save me from loving you
Somebody save me from loving you
I don’t know, I don’t know
I don’t know I don’t know what to do
Somebody save me from loving you.

I know I worry more than I should
but love has a mind of its own

I said, “Don’t hurry, slow and easy is good”

But you wooed and seduced me,
and you made me,
you made me your own

Chorus:
Somebody save me from loving you
Somebody save me from loving you,
loving you.
I don’t know, I don’t know
I don’t know, I don’t know what to do
I don’t know, I don’t know
I don’t know, I don’t know what to do

Somebody save me from loving you.
I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know,
I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know,
I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know,
I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know what to do
Somebody save me from loving you
Somebody save me
Somebody save me
from loving you

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from Diving Grace, released December 4, 2020
Piano, keys, chimes, vocals: David Nyro
Guitars: Jakael Tristram
Bass: Marc Miller
Drums: Sean Lane
Sax: Scott Adams

Engineer: Jakael Tristram
Producers: David Nyro, Jakael Tristram

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David Nyro Seattle, Washington

It began with the Beatles. Since then, Bowie, Rundgren, Joni, Laura, Motown, Marvin, Stevie, Nick Drake, Jimi, Gram, Who, Weather Report, Procol Harum, Jarrett, Kinks, Neil, U2, Replacements, Sugar, Counting Crows, Pearl Jam, Toad, Goo Goo Dolls, Oasis, Wilco, James, Bela, Adele, Amy, Shins, Mumford & Sons, Dum Dum Girls, The National, Tame Impala, Father John Misty; a life-long love affair. ... more

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