Feb 2022 girl-with-guitar alternative-rock fan-fiction contemporary-folk
This song started out in my mind as a set of lyrics for a straight ahead love song. Kathy realized it made a much better song about an encounter with an idol.
This is song number 11 of Kathy's FAWM project, recording 14 of our songs for an album we're calling Get to Yes. The whole emerging album/playlist is here https://soundcloud.com/nancy-cunningham-2/sets/get-to-yes-collection-of-songs
Exactly What She Means
Written by Nancy Cunningham and Kathy Klopp
I'd never met a stranger who was stranger
I'd never spent a night in New Orleans
In her songs, she sang no one could change her
Now I see exactly what she means
I caught her at a bar she played on Tuesdays
She warned me that she wasn’t what she seemed
I listened like a moth dancing in blue flames
But now I see exactly what she means
Everything that’s dark and wild and blue
Everything I never I knew
Everything, everything
That’s all I’d have to choose
Everything that’s tame and trite and true
Everything I always do
Everything, everything
That’s what I’d have to lose
I love to see her flick her scarves and boas
She drips them in the doorways of my dreams
I sing along at home and all I know is
Now I see exactly what she means
Oh now I see exactly what she means
I'd never met a stranger who was stranger
Until I spent that night in New Orleans
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Yeah, now I see exactly what she means
@leslie333 Mar 2022
Love the feel of this one - the lyrics are fantastic. Draws you in, yet remains mysterious.
@ambroise Mar 2022
That story needed an intimate setup. It's just perfect. I love the simple but oh so efficient chord progression on "now I see exactly what she means".
@berni1954 Mar 2022
You have a gift of creating characters with broad brushstrokes. I hope to explore much more of your stuff before they shut the site down,.
@mikepalmu Feb 2022
I like the song!