You Say You Are Aquarian — A clearly adult eccentric pours luminous water from two pottery vessels over Central Valley orchards beneath a bright Aquarian constellation

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You Say You Are Aquarian

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr. Listen to the recorded versions and follow the lyric below.

Original Doug Heyes lyrics · AI-generated music & vocals

A departing traveler addresses a former lover with wordplay, regret and the insistence that he was already on the road before they met. Failed apologies and vanished money mark the separation, but he does not simply dismiss what they shared. Calling her the one who got away reveals tenderness beneath his unsentimental pose.

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Recorded versions

3 recordings. Different voices and arrangements bring another side of the song into the light.

Lyrics

You Say You Are Aquarian

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr

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You say you are Aquarian
Blonde and blue-eyed Aryan
Decidedly riparian
Lookin’ to be marryin’
What's that weight you're carryin’
Up there on your back
Strap it on and move along
A 100 lb backpack

I just spent the night inside
A rusty railroad shack
I've been taken for a ride
And I ain’t comin’ back
Before I go you ought to know
There's something I should say
I really wish it could have been
Just any other way

I tried to apologize
But words got in the way
Another song to say so long
To one that got away
If I had it to do over
I’d do it all again
I never knew a lover
That ever stayed a friend

Listen to the words
Of this unsentimental song
And you try to remember
Why I'm already gone
You had it all going on
Before the money was all gone
Seems like only yesterday
The one that got away

I was on my way so long
Before you came along
A free bird on the long road
Ain't No Sunshine When You're Gone
I'll be gone a long time
Forever on my way
Maybe t’was the wrong time
For the One That Got Away

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