A Coachman Ranted Here

It’s just an anagram of my latest song – Romance and Heartache

I started to write this a few weeks back when I was off work with some sort of flu thing that people like to pass around at this time of year. I have been reading a book about someone’s disastrous lovelife and the thought came to me as I was looking out of my music room and watching the beautiful orange/red leaves of the Cherry tree in the front garden fall in the wind, that everything has to come to an end eventually. So I wrote some words that were analgous to autumn and the end of a relationship.

If anybody reads this and listens to the music and is interested, for this song I tuned the guitar to G and played in the key of C. I always tune to G when I play slide guitar.

Everyone has had their heart broken. Just like when there is a gale everything eventually calms but the memory of the storm remains. These words come from all the storms of my past.

Words:

I have a notion, I feel it’s over

I’ve seen the sky cry, tears of blue

If I took your hand, and follow the wind

How would we know, how far to go?

Romance and Heartache, just sail on the breeze

We are just lovers, who will fall like Autumn leaves

There’s a question and answer, all wrapped in one

It’s how did we get here from the heights we begun?

It’s a tragedy,

a mistake

But my friends tell me,

We reap what we make