The Good Witch

conversations always go cold
any time that I speak your name
staggering with my torch in hand
the whiskey always fuels the flame

I still want to be with you
that ain’t ever gonna change
and I am gonna be with you
I will always find a way

honey you say you’re spoken for
well that don’t matter much to me
cuz you’re hanging out here with me tonight
and I don’t see you wearin’ his ring

I still want to be with you
that ain’t ever gonna change
and I am gonna be with you
I will always find a way

there’s always something or someone
that we always hold hope out for
and every time I see you here alone
I feel that hope a little more

I still want to be with you
that ain’t ever gonna change
and I am gonna be with you
I will always find a way

Zach Burba produced this in 2005 (I think in the summer?) in what I called “The Megan Street Sessions,” because that was a street he lived off of and that was the name of the girl I was dating at the time (who I married four years later). I hassled Zach for the completed tracks for months, but he was busy recording and mixing his own stuff and for a lot of other musicians in Phoenix. The recordings were worth the wait, and many of them ended up on a release called “You Know Me,” though not the one above.

The song is called “The Good Witch” because I dated two different people with the same name (no, not at the same time), and I borrowed from “The Wizard of Oz” to make a distinction between the two. One was a sweetheart and the other was a world of trouble. This song is about the first one. The subject of the song got engaged, but it was not a good relationship, and I had some words with the fiance. Any time I discussed the situation with friends (particularly when I was drunk), they didn’t want to talk about it. Maybe they just didn’t want to hear me talk about my love life - many friends made that clear over the years.

Oh well, at least I got a story and song out of the whole mess. That’s always the bright side to these things.

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