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I wrote this around December of 2003 and recorded it in my room in Pacifica in an afternoon. A few years later, I added a few more guitar and vocal parts to fill it out for the re-issue version.
Lyrics
Y.T.What I did to deserve this
I don’t know
to wake up to something so beautiful
There’s not much I can say that you don’t know
and words will try to show my heart
but that’s impossible
it’s scary too
cuz I know nothing’s for certain
and fate please don’t pull this curtain
I guess I’ve been April’s fool for so long
Voice inside says “I don’t deserve you”
But I would never want to be
one to unnerve you
I guess I’m trying to keep that stuff inside
when I see your arms open wide
I guess I’m saying dear never mind
and love you never fail me anytime
I guess I had a fear of hope
and I don’t know a thing of miracles
Undefined and vague and cold
Till you came long and took me
places I couldn’t reach on my own
My heart and mind like
Treble, bass in all keys
Scattered notes
you make symphonies
I guess I’m saying you make sense of me
I guess I’m saying “girl, where have you been?”
