Writer: Maria Mena
Producer: Maria Mena, Martin Sjolie
Album: Cause and Effect (Maria Mena)
Label: Sony BMG
Year: 2008
I give alot of credit to So You Think You Can Dance for introducing me some of my most beloved musicians to date. Norwegian singer/songwriter Maria Mena is one of them. I recently got my hands on a copy of her fifth and most recent album Cause and Effect. "Where Were You" stood out from the rest right away. Mena's voice brings such great emotion to the song.
Where Were You - Maria Mena lyrics
I was a backing track
Saving my green voice's back.
Disguising the obvious -
That I had no one to sing for.
I lived in a paper bin
Which I laid curled up and forgotten in
With an unfinished lovers hymn
Tattooed on my forehead.
Oh, oh, oh, where were you?
Had I known you then
The outcome would have been better.
I got used to the treadmill love -
Where no matter how fast you run
You're stuck at the starting point,
Only exhausted.
I was the anonymous author of
Songs I'd not dared to share
Lacking the audience of a lover's ear.
Oh, oh, oh,
Oh, oh, oh, where were you?
Had I know you then
The outcome would have been better.
You could have prevented this.
You could have prevented this.
You could have prevented this.
You could have prevented this.
You could have prevented this.
You could have prevented this.
You could have prevented this.
You could have prevented..
Oh, oh, oh, where were you?
Had you known me then
The outcome would have been better.
