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Jamie's Secret Lyrics

Artist: David Wilcox
Album: How Did You Find Me Here

from How Did You Find Me Here?
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JAMIE'S SECRET

Near river bend where the stream runs clear
One winter morning of a day last year
I heard a secret that I now can say
Concerning Jamie, who's past away

If you had known her then you'd agree
Her smiling eyes could make a blind man see
She laughed with innocence and she moved with style
Full grown lover with childlike smile

She moved out West where the air is clean
To study poetry at Evergreen
I thought I'd see her in a year or two
Till we heard rumors
That I feared were true

They never found where she went that night
The man she lived with said they'd had a fight
She left that cabin to walk alone
He kept the light on
But she never came home

She must have gone by the riverside
The searchers say that's how she must have died
The winter water was cold with snow
An icy boulder
And down she'd go

Well I heard the news but I could not cry
I should be shattered but my eyes were dry
To feel no sorrow was my surprise
But the words came easy
For those last good-byes

Till I took a walk by the riverbend
Where once we lingered when she was my friend
I tried to melt the river of tears inside
The river flowed
But joy I cried

She may be gone from this life we know
She may have frozen in the ice and snow
But there's a secret that my heart can't tell
Except to say
That she's safe and well

Near river bend where the stream runs clear
One winter morning of a day last year
I heard a secret that I now can say
Concerning Jamie, who's passed away

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Comments/Interpretations

by Patrick Norman on 4/16/2015 11:42am
So what is Jaimie's secret?

by Jeff Gallagher on 10/16/2024 4:44pm
Jamie's Secret has a few clues that need to get deciphered. In the middle is a secret that he can keep, after the first time he mentioned a secret that he can tell. And there's the line, I think, about "leaving behind life we knew" which to me is a clue that she's moving on to a different situation, not that she's lost her life. My take is that she confided to him that she was unhappy with her situation, and that she was going to escape and/or fake her death. So the secrets are that (1) she was unhappy and all that that implies, and (2) that she planned this as a way of escape from her current situation. Anyway that's my take on the song. I think it's a good one, song that is.