Your Memory Is Mine

This is a song I wrote in 1993. My marriage had blown up in my face after moving to Vancouver, BC for a "quality of life change" from L.A.  Turned out to be a bad move. So after a couple crappy years in Canada, I landed in Portland, Oregon.  I went to work at Wieden + Kennedy ad agency - and met Ritsu Katsumata. You can visit her site here: www.ritsu.com/ She is an amazing violin player, who agreed to record some songs with me. I'll be posting other songs with Ritsu.
Every song of mine has some layers of meaning. In this one, the last verse is about how - while going through a breakup that was inevitable - I  had to decide it was over, rather than continuing the agony of the drawn out demise. That's why I say, "never thought I'd leave you, or give you away... with so little to say". At a point, I had to give up on the idea that I could save that marraige. It was done. In fact, this song is about my relationship with two different women, at different points in time. It just happened to become one song. I had actually started it years prior to my trip to Canada. At any rate, when the moon is full, I'm not thinking about my ex-wife. Enough about that.