This is a song begun several years ago. It’s one of those songs written late at night - almost whisper quiet -  when you’re wallowing in some profound understanding that, in daylight, would seem obvious or even trite, but given the moonlight (spilling white through the windows) and your mood (a cocktail of self-obsession and self-pity, perhaps), it seems impossible to ignore. And so the notes come out, and so do the words, and you scribble them down on a torn piece of paper that you shove into the back pages of a notebook, which then goes and hides on a shelf as you crawl, finally, to bed.

In time you open the notebook for something else entirely and by accident discover the song again. If you’re lucky it’s aged like a good wine and settled into itself; if you’re not it’s like something out of a time capsule from the fifties. If you’ve got the time and inclination you can trim off some of the weaker bits, now that you’ve got some distance from the thing, and maybe tighten up that part over there with some better lyrics.

This is how I ended up with this song. I’m working on the arrangements now to try and turn this lonely acoustic thing into a full-on song for the album. Stay with me; it’s coming soon.

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