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Bliss.mp3

I’d like to kiss you in the morning time
I’d like to hold you in the summer shine
There are a thousand things I’d like to say but
They don’t matter much anyway (because)

I’m only here when the moon is gone
And so you have to wait for very long
There are a thousand things I’d like to say but
They don’t matter much anyway.

One of these days I will have to pull out the orignal version of this song and compare it to this version because this is the song that has changed the most through the years. Everytime I re-recorded it something about it changed. I remember the first version I recorded with a cheap radio shack mic into a borrowed karaoke machine with an acoustic guitar that was falling apart. It was orignally going to be one of those “grunge” outings with a nice quiet section that exploded into a punk rock frenzy but the more I heard it with the lead part I added on top of it, the more I realized that it would just be a perfect little pop song so when I eventually recorded this version it had morphed into what you hear today.

This song is another one that had no lyrics forever. Obviously I am not the best lyricist as most often, if you just read them, you will get the jist of what the song is about. This one is obviously about Alyssa (as are a lot of my songs) but more specifically about how we couldn’t be together all the time. After high school, I had a falling out with my Dad over stupid things (of course it seemed valid to me at the time) and I moved out of the house. Of course, I moved out before I had a place to live or a car to get anywhere so I was in effect homeless, though I had a job. Anyway, I moved into Crystal’s house. That lasted about a month before we all went crazy and I went back home. After that, I moved in with Matt and his family and that lasted a little longer but I knew that i couldn’t just keep jumping from one house to another. I had to get a permanent home. It was at this time that I wrote these lyrics expressing my lament for not being able to be somewhere with Alyssa. “I’d like to kiss you in the morning time,” meaning that I wanted to wake up beside her. “I’m only here when the moon is gone,” meaning that we couldn’t be together all night long. “There [was] a thousand things I’d like to say” to her back then but I never could be alone with her. I had no place to be alone with her. She lived at home and I was living everywhere. Gotta love that turmoil. I joke about it but it really was a hard time for us. Luckily the story has a happy ending cause in July of 1999 we both moved into our first apartment and have been together ever since.