For a while I was obsessed with a three chord progression starting with E and moving it up two frets to a kind of open F#minor and then two more frets to an open G#minor. There are a number of songs on here that use that. It was my version of Richie Havens’ sound (although I’m pretty sure he used open tuning). This song is definitely about someone, and it’s certainly consistent with my time with Carolyn. But I have this nagging recollection that I wrote it before I met her. Oh well…
Lyrics
Just Like Morning
It was just like morning in my mind
As the phantoms danced off in the mist
Having strengthened my will to exist
It was just like a warning from behind
My words bear the burden I speak with my years
My smile caresses the form of your fears
My eyes try and hide a paradox of tears
It was much too much for me to take
And though I cracked under the strain
And vowed not to try it again
It feels just like I’m about to break
So if my memory chimes with the poems you have read
Walk away in my rhymes disregard what I’ve said
It’s glowing soft like embers, only dead
Now I have been seated so
I hear the speech in stereo
A balcony seat to see the show
I guess I’ve nowhere else to go
For me it’s just a minor role
I walk where flowers used to grow
I picked them all so long ago
Not knowing that you’d pick this path to stroll
I hate to hear what I need you to say
Though you’ve borrowed a part of my dream
You must follow your journey upstream
I’m overcome and I must plead you to stay
We got out of our dreams just as they fell behind
Lucky moments pulled off by the currents of time
It was just like morning
In my mind.