Watering Can (Original)

This is a song I wrote about 4 years ago. I recorded it and simultaneously filmed it a few weeks back. I used a pair of Rode NT2A microphones and an old M-audio firewire 410. I used a bit of software EQ and reverb on the two tracks and panned them softly left and right. The effect on the film is just something I found when playing around with the video software. As a side note, I'd like to say that I don't want to dedicate this whole blog to just talking about the Sunshine textbook, although that's been my deal for the last month or so. Anyways, here are the lyrics:

I'd planned on leavin' here hours ago
But you've convinced me to stay for a while
As the daylight trickled through the blinds
As though being poured in from a watering can
I just wanted to say:
"You're the only reason why I've stayed this late."
But I held my tongue
For I knew that it could only make me a fool

You began to cry for a while
About how your friend was gonna fly back home (tomorrow)
Behind the tears, though, was a certain sense of joy
That you owed to the friendship that you'd shared
To which I cannot relate
In the reflection on the glass from which you drank
I caught a fleeting glimpse of sadness
As you stumbled to it for one last drink (that night)

And you were beautiful for just that moment in time
And as you gazed at me, your eyes said now's the time
But that doesn't work unless there is love

With make-up smeared under your eyes all black
And the sky illuminated by the sun
You said with feelings of regret
That it's time... for bed
Heading west for a short drive home
Back to my bed with the other side all cold
But that's OK 'cause I won't sleep there anyway
'Cause you're still gazing at me in my thoughts (I just couldn't--not with you in my thoughts)

But you were beautiful for just that moment in time
And as you gazed at me, your eyes said that that was the time
But that doesn't work unless there is love