Nixon
"I Love You"
Recorded in 2000 by Roger Gunnarsson. Previously released on 7" single "I Will Never Leave You" on Strings of Nashville.

As for most of my more "famous" songs I can see why it happened to just them, and in some cases I even remember the songwriting moment with a thought of making an unusually good song. There are some songs though, that I also have that feeling for that has been completely ignored over the years. At least as far as I know.
In the spring of 1999 my girlfriend Anna was diagnosed with cancer, and in April 2000 she died in our apartment in Jönköping. Less than two weeks later I wrote this song about us, on a warm and sleepless night as I remember it. I couldn't play guitar because it would disturb the neighbours so I wrote a quick piece on the keyboard and wrote this lyric just about as quick as it takes to read it. Those were natural feelings about the situation and they just kept pouring out of me.
I didn't think much of the song when it was finished, it was more something I had to do that very moment, instead of writing a diary. But about a year later Daniel Andersson, who ran small label Strings of Nashville, wanted to release that very song as a single I felt it was too private so I insisted on making an EP where it could be more hidden as a second track or something. And it's been hidden there since then.
I remember when I was at a gig in Gothenburg 2002 an unknown girl walked up to me and told me how much she had been crying to that song, and that's probably the only mention I heard of it. It's never been released on CD och digitally elsewhere (the EP was on vinyl) so I thought it would be nice to have it here in the Nixon archives at last.
It's been 21 years since I wrote it, and I still remember the situation so well. I'm kind of impressed by the way I could find those words and melodies in that extremely special situation.


I LOVE YOU
W&M: Roger Gunnarsson 20000505

Autumn 98, moving in
I'd never been so much in love in my entire life
We had only been together for five months but in our hearts we knew that our love would last forever
I worked that autumn, while Anna was doing her last year at school
I love the food we used to make
The trips we used to go on
I love the flowers in the windows and the Saturday mornings in bed
I love you
I love you

You fell asleep in your wet hair
I'd always wanted to be there
when I laid there by your side

I miss your voice when I'm at home
I miss your thoughts when I'm watching TV
I want to spend my whole life with you, I wish there was a way
I promise I will visit your as often as I can
I love you
I miss the things that only you and me knew about
I miss the words we used
I miss you in my lap
I miss your voice
I love you
I love you
I love you

You fell asleep in your wet hair
I'd always wanted to be there
when I laid there by your side

The world was silent for a while
You turned around and kissed my smile
That August summer night

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I Love You [2000]

Here's where I put up songs that never happened elsewhere. Songs recorded from the 90s to 10s. Some unreleased Nixon tracks, some demos made for others, some songs that just didn't get finished.

I Love You [2000]

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