By popular request here is another piano based song!This song just came out of me, one day in one sitting at the piano, my heart was hurt...heartache, where would songwriting be without it?
joni mitchell
Story behind the song
This is a very emotional song for me and still is every time I hear it. It was an ending that was very difficult to deal with. It's bare and basic and I think I like it that way. Lyrically it sometimes feels rambling, maybe a bit awkward even, but it was like a stream of consciousness for me and I felt that it wouldn't be true to the song to change it too much (I'm like that with certain songs...they become like artifacts sometimes...)so like it or leave it, but here it is!
Lyrics
Well now it's finally over.
This in- between has fused to an end.
And I find myself longing for a beginning
once again.
It takes a long while to see through chiseled glass, to find a way back into myself
and it's so hard but I'll get there
all I've gotta do is kiss good bye to the past
And I wonder,
what might have been
but I've gotta give up,
gotta stop this pretending
I've gotta leave you and never look behind
I have to block your face
out of my mind.
Well, there's this door inside of my head
and it won't open up and I can't get inside and I'm left here on my own
and I believe just beyond the solid hinges
ther's a need fulfilled so completely
I've dreamed a long while and now the remains are scattered like the leaves as they fly
and all along the pathway they have fallen on the earth
so they'll soften the hard ground if I lie.
And I wonder what might have been
but I've gotta give up, gotta stop this pretending
I've gotta leave you and never look behind
I have to block your face
out of my mind.
And I love you still
and I need you still.