What Did I Do Wrong?
Written:
Writers: David Jenneson, Alan Hovden,
Status: Unrecorded unpublished
Genre and Style: Pop
Comments: Dave: This is a melodic up-tempo pop love song with a George Harrison feel and some Eastern drum influences. It has some real sadness to it. The lyrics are very tight with strong internal rhyme and it has the verse-chorus structure where verse and chorus have the same melody, making it extremely catchy.
Comments: Al: I’ve tried to recreate this in a modern setting but have never been able to duplicate it. Wish I had the original recording.
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Vocals - Al Hovden
Morning breaking I was giving
Making you my song
What did I do wrong?
You were taking for a living
Leaving it so long
What did I do wrong?
Oh I did not want to see
Blind men wait so patiently
Waiting, wanting
For the one thing
It would take to make you love
You are leaving me this evening
Never letting on
What did I do wrong?
Can you see me disbelieving
Standing in the dawn
What did do wrong?
Trying to think of what to say
Ask you for another day
Leaving me can’t be so easy
I can’t see what I forgot to be
Through my window thunder breaking
All across the dawn
What did I do wrong?
Waiting for you I’m mistaking
All who come along
What did I do wrong?
Certain ones I pull aside
See them hiding their surprise
Of my past I always ask them
If at last that I could know
Ah please
What could it be?
What did I do wrong?