Malvina
Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems
You Ain't Sayin Nothin
Notes: words and music
by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1967 Schroder Music Company, renewed 1995.
Written in response to a certain kind of popular song and style of singing.
Well you sound and you sound
And you ain't sayin nothin,
And you sound and you sound
And you ain't sayin nothin,
And you fill up the air
With your rattle and roar,
And you ain't sayin nothin.
And you twinkle and you shine
And you ain't sayin nothin,
And you talk a long line,
And you ain't sayin nothin,
And you fill up my head
With the things I thought you said,
And you ain't sayin nothin.
And you quote and emote
And you ain't saying nothin,
And you pant and you rant
And you ain't sayin nothin,
And the less you have to say
The more feeling you display,
And you ain't sayin nothin.
Well you sound and you sound
And you ain't sayin nothin,
And your words go round and round
And you ain't sayin nothin,
And I'd take it very kind
If you'd get out of my mind,
Cause you ain't sayin nothin.