Remember When
A song I wrote
Where was I when I wrote Remember When?
The idea started with nostalgia. You know the feeling: you hear a song and suddenly you are transported. You’re taken back to different room in a different time. Music is magic in this way. That is the headspace I was in when this song began to take shape.
I kept thinking about Georgia on My Mind while writing this song because I was learning it on guitar (I really love Willie Nelson’s version). That song wooshes me away to a smokey Boston bar room in my twenties. These places that only exist in my head. While I was playing it, I realised this song about nostalgia was doing exactly what it was written about. It was taking me back to a completely different chapter of my life in my twenties. From this point the song sort of wrote itself.
Remember When
It feels so wrong
That it’s been so long
Since I’ve seen your pretty little face
In that dingy old dive
Off Columbus Avenue
I remember then
Way back when
We held each other so tight
Ray Charles on that juke box
Singing “Georgia on my Mind”
Under a field full of stars
Past those honky tonk bars
We kissed under that old willow tree
Those places long closed down
Just a faded memory
I remember then
Way back when
We held each other so tight
When the wind hits just right
I’ll hum “Georgia on my Mind”
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