"A Love That Never Was"

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When I posted a new version of "A Love That Never Was," I checked the lyrics that I'd transcribed.  I think the only change I had to make was "vague hallucinations."  I'd heard it as "fake hallucinations" when I originally transcribed the lyrics.  I'm actually not really sure which it is, but I'm leaning toward "vague hallucinations" now.  It's not helpful that V & F and G & K sound sort of similar.

In any case, I also found more typical Zombie themes.

Memories: "Memories of a love that never was"

Crying: "No one needs to cry"

Dreams: "Living in a dream"

I haven't really looked into this very much yet, but I think the sun is also pretty prominent in the Zombies' lyrics, and there's a line about it in "A Love That Never Was" - "Weeping from the sun."

I really need to work on a lyrical concordance, and I'm slowly doing that by transcribing the lyrics of a song when I post a new version of it here, but it'll still take awhile.