Words: 03-31-1990
Music: 03-31-1990
What’s It All About?
I went on a camping trip to the mountains outside of Tucson, Arizona with three other people. We drove out there in two cars, all the way from South Orange County in California. I was in the car with my best friend, and though we had the kind of friendship that made a long road trip possible, things between us were… complicated.
During that camping trip, I climbed to the top of a rock formation that resembled, to me at least, the shell of a turtle. I basked in the sun and lost myself to the elements and kind of tranced out for a while. And I looked down at our campsite, and saw my friend, lost in her own meditative state.
While my feelings for her had been strong for months, I knew that day I would love her the rest of my life. We’ve built our own lives with other partners in the many years since that trip and I celebrate her happiness, but she’s still one of the very small handful of people who have permanent lodgings in the house of my heart.
The song was originally written on bass guitar. My band at the time, psychopathway, played it live a time or two, but to my knowledge there are no recordings of that version. The version presented here was recorded on acoustic guitar direct to hard drive with no overdubs in my office in Hesperia, California in 2002.
Lyrics:
I can’t rest until I get this out
Finally happiness what it’s all about
I wonder how you’d take these words tonight
Hard to tell if I’m really surprised
Thinking it was all a matter of time
I wonder do you think of me at night?
So long now you’ve been around
But it took so long now to know you
Far away you seemed so small
But for the sun you were all I saw
Me and hill we
Sat and watched you
I was dreaming as he talked
You didn’t know as my white light loved you
That’s something I’ll never stop
All along I
Had a feeling
Upon it I could never lock
Now I know the reason for it
You and I are of one heart
Do you think like me of that one kiss?
Can’t ignore the promise here in this
When will you admit to us it’s all right?
I wonder how you’d take these words tonight?
I wonder do you think of me at night?
You and I are of one heart
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