New year, new tune. This song began life in 2007 as an acoustic demo; this is a new "electric" arrangement.
Years ago I thought I was in a serious relationship with someone who didn't see it the same way. She was right, and I was too immature to know better. As I slogged through the requisite depression and squished self-esteem, I became weirded out by the idea that the city we lived in was big enough to swallow us whole. We could live within a few miles of each other, maybe even live out whole lives here, and never cross paths again, as if we'd suddenly been thrust into parallel dimensions the moment we ended it.
Despite the sad-sack lyrics the music itself was a lot of fun to record, and incorporates a lot of my early musical influences. Extra points if you can name the famous singer guy I'm aping at the end of the second verse :)
The lo-fi MP3 is free when you log in. The high-quality MP3 is one thin dollar and also includes an instrumental version, the acoustic version (also high-quality) and artwork. Lyrics are after the jump. Enjoy, and happy 2009!
Scott Andrew - We Had A Good Thing
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This audio work by Scott Andrew is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.the sun sinks behind the clouds and I’ve been driving around for hours in this city where we met so long ago and the streets here hum like wires and the last 12 years unwind I am haunting the old places we would go
and I can’t invent the words to say how much it meant just to be there beside you breathing in each moment that we spent
and we had a good thing you told me so but what do I know? what do I know? yeah we had a good thing but we let it go so what do I know? what do I know?
waves crash against the pier and I’ve been gone all these years a familiar skyline holds no sense of mystery and you’re fading in and out like a signal, like the radio the shadows of the long-forgotten ghosts we used to be
and I never had a reason I should feel so sad you can have every street and sidewalk if you wanted them so bad
and we had a good thing you told me so but what do I know? what do I know? yeah we had a good thing but we let it go so what do I know? what do I know?
and I guess this city’s big enough without you yeah I guess this city’s big enough without you
and we had a good thing you told me so but what do I know? what do I know? yeah we had a good thing but we let it go so what do I know? what do I know?