It Was Just Like Love

Another tune from the pen of LCK.

So I'm putting together a 4-song submission for ASCAP’s Songwriter's Workshop. And I'd like to know what you think of this recording. 

The main body of the tune was recorded live at Birdland in New York City, on someone’s iPod, during a singing workshop with Tierney Sutton. The audio quality is low, but the musicians — The Christian Jacob Trio (also known as The Tierney Sutton Band) — were phenomenal. I also stumbled a little with the lyric.

I can probably clean up the sound using Garage Band, and maybe splice the first bridge into the 2nd section of the song. The question is, is the sound quality too low to bother?

 

“It Was Just Like Love”

It was just like love without the aggravation—

a rich blend of warm friends, cool conversation,

plus the thought that rain or shine you’ve always got 
great company.

Hey, that sounds a lot like love to me.

It was just like you to keep my engine purring

while guys you knew were the same bad dream, recurring.

I still don’t know what made you feel you had to go 
through all that fuss 
when it was so much like love with us.

I guess I should have understood 
the rules of the game—

used those good old tools of the game 
that make hearts dance.

Yet sad to say I’m like those wayward
fools of the game

who’d rather wait for one true love 
than waste time on romance. 

It was just like me to fix what isn’t broken. 

Too late I see some things should have stayed unspoken.
Yet in a blaze of reckless honesty our days 
of fun were done.
I spoke one phrase and watched you run.

(musical interlude, repeat bridge)

It was just like bliss that couldn’t clear the runway.

At last, we kiss, though not quite in the fun way.

It’s all gone bust.   Yet as we kiss goodbye I trust 
you’ll share this toast:

Wasn’t it just like love, almost?

’Cause it hurts just like love almost…

Words and Music © 2006 by Lee Charles Kelley

West Sixty Ninth Street Music (ASCAP)