This one Jamie and Lana went to sleep early which was unusual so I had some time to myself. I was listening to Leonard Cohen, Chelsea Hotel I think. I was drinking whiskey with my guitar and thinking about Rudy. I wrote down the words and did some light editing, but they pretty much stayed the same. The big change was switching from guitar to piano. I didn’t like the guitar it was to folky. I hadn’t done anything with piano before and was stuck at how to fill out the sound because I thought it got a little to repetitive. I added bass, but that didn’t help with the repetition. So I did a flute and synth loop, and I kinda beat on my snare drum after I recorded the vocal. trying to make it interesting
I remember the nights
We’d just sat in your room
Just singing and getting high
when I think of it now
it pains me so much
I miss it with my whole life
We seem just like kids
In my memory
So light and unafraid
But if I’m honest
We both had our trouble
And i wish i still had you here
All we wanted to be was somewhere else
anywhere at all
as long it was away
All we wanted to be was something else
Anything at all as long as we changed
whatever we could create
I write to the darkness
And know you can't see it
But it still relieves my mind
If i ignore all the silence
That always comes in reply
That comes in reply
and i don't think it true
That it was all for the music
Just a sense of belonging
And a partner to share it
The confusion
youthful longing
All we wanted to be somewhere else
Now i guess that we made it
It's awful
All we wanted to be something else
We're different
just not in anyway we wanted
Or expected
