About: A Page With You
& I In Love:
After about 20 years of not speaking, I had a brief visit
with my high-school girlfriend. Hours before the visit I
wrote With the Wind Tonight and a day or two after getting
home, this song leapt out of the guitar. During the meet, I
apologized for leading her astray and she strongly
corrected me (Verse 4) saying she didn't regret a single
thing. I mentioned about her Dad with rifle in hand, on the
steps, yelling at me, strongly suggesting I should avoid
his daughter. I asked her to apologize to him on my behalf,
for I caused lots of grief.
Around that time I had exchanged an email with another ex
(Verse 2) who had successfully reinvented her self &
was doing quite well. I also have another good friend who
moved to the other coast, leaving everything behind, barely
keeping in touch with his folks, let alone his old buddies.
Reinvention is a skill I don't have. I saw a self-help book
recently that was all about reinventing yourself, so I
suppose I could learn, eh?
The song was revised/tweaked about 4 times over a few days
but once I had the guitar melody, it came together fairly
quickly. Many years ago, it was "the thing" to examine your
new love's photo album with them once you started getting
serious. My wife & I each have photos of former loves
that we sometimes flip through and tease each other about.
I liked the idea of the photo albums that everyone seems to
have. And, at one time, no matter what they might say now,
there was "somebody else" then. ("See, I have a picture as
proof"!)
An aside story is that the high-school ex doesn't have the
pictures of us anymore, only I do. She had a best friend
who helped burn all the pictures of me they could find one
night, after one of our stormy break ups. She (the friend)
& I did not get along at all. Months later I played a
few songs at the school variety show. The friend caught me
at the dance later and apologized for the burning stuff and
for being so rotten to me because ... one of the songs I
played had made her cry. So, she reasoned if I could write
a song like that, I must not be completely rotten. That was
a big moment. It really startled me, realizing that a
little song of mine could affect someone else like the
songs that I loved, affected me.
Contact me with who you think should record this
song.