Aimee
Lyric
You took me high when you were low,
And you’ll never know what you mean to me or how I feel.
It’s in your verse, it’s in your words,
And the first time I heard you, your voice carried out through the rain.
Wistful Aimee I miss you,
I wish you were coming up close once again,
And the company kept, you regret, so do I,
Did you win in the end?
In the times that I’ve been close,
And I’ve taken notes,
I’m just one in a million to you.
We saw the world, but came for you
And I never knew,
That the ecstasy would end in pain.
I took flight on the stairs,
I should’ve turned but was scared.
Yeah, but what would I say?
But since you ask this is how, to me, you’re different.
Story
Another song that initially started way back in the early naughties when I wasn’t really writing as I wasn’t in a band and the desire had gone. I had, for some inexplicable reason in the late naughties/early teens written some lyrics. When I had a bassist friend visiting at the time Dave was lodging, to try and help pull him out of, what we’ll euphemistically call a funk, we recorded this in the lounge, with me playing drums by tapping a keyboard, the bassist using the bass I had at my house for some reason and Dave and I playing acoustic guitars with Dave also playing piano. Needs must and I sang, unwillingly, and we made a pretty decent effort in the circumstances.
This sat on Dave’s laptop until I got an eDrum kit and played drums over what we’d got and that became the demo for this album.
I just love Stu’s bass on this, it really is a focal point of the intro with that beautiful, fluid, lyrical line and Dave’s way of coming up with acoustic guitar lines with a different fingering adds light and shade to mine. I hardly ever use a capo, but just this once it was necessary to keep my acoustic part the same as we raised it a key.
Oh and a special mention, for people who like the subject matter, to Dave for coming up with, “But since you ask, this is how you’re different.” Genius!
It’s a love song, but not in the traditional sense.