Sometimes I Still Feel the Bruise

Sometimes I Still Feel the Bruise
Album	Babylon Springs EP
Released	2006
Artist	the Mountain Goats
Length	4:44
Previous Track	"Sail Babylon Springs"
Next Track	"Wait for You"

Sometimes I Still Feel the Bruise is the fourth track on the Babylon Springs EP. It is a cover of the song by the band Trembling Blue Stars, originally released on the 2000 album Broken by Whispers.

Lyrics

This is just to say hello
And to let you know
I think of you from time to time
I know I never really knew you
But somehow I miss you
And wish that you'd stayed in my life
Making contact gets harder 
As the silence grows longer
And isn't it only me
Who'd like us to see each other
How I would hate to be a bother
The way we left it was you'd ring

I'm under no illusion
As to what I meant to you
But you made an impression
And sometimes I still feel the bruise
Sometimes I still feel the bruise

Now and then I'll stumble on
What I've misplaced but never lost
An ache I first felt long ago
Though you've appeared and disappeared
Throughout these past few years
I'd be surprised if you now showed
Making contact gets harder
As the silence grows longer
And why would you think of me
When you were not the one in love
When you were not the dreamer
When you were just the dream

I'm under no illusion
As to what I meant to you
But you made an impression
Sometimes I still feel the bruise
Sometimes I still feel the bruise

Live Shows this Song Was Played at

• 2016-04-01 - Bearsville Theater - Woodstock, NY
• 2016-04-02 - College Street Music Hall - New Haven, CT
• 2016-04-03 - Columbus Theatre - Providence, RI
• 2016-04-04 - Port City Music Hall - Portland, ME