4. I Wouldn’t Press You

Words, music, arrangement, performances, recording, and mixing by Stephen Solum.

©Ⓟ 2020. Stephen Solum. All rights reserved.

Several of the parts you hear in this track were recorded originally in 1985. It is intended as my homage to the standard jazz ballad. A torch song, to a life that might have been.

I Wouldn’t Press You - lyrics

We play it safe and trust in life

To send us all our dreams,

Until safety has become the end

Instead of just the means:

You should have known I wouldn’t press you,

I take my time, it wouldn’t do

To press you.

I thought it strange the way you’d worry so,

But I took my time, was in no hurry, no,

I wouldn’t rush you.

And now I look at a lifetime

With you on the edge of my days;

He asked you to spend all your nighttimes

With him, and what could you say?

I’ve often wondered why you left so fast,

I didn’t press, I didn’t rush,

I didn’t ask.