When I got home that night - the third time I had seen Chloe, second time I kissed her, first time I basically said that I wanted to marry her one day - I couldn’t stop thinking about her. I didn’t know what to do with myself. So, I did one of the things I knew best. I wrote.
First, I tried to write some songs, just plain write them out, but eventually I realized that that wasn’t going to work. So instead, I just wrote stories down, about Chloe and I. I wrote about when we were together, the things that happened, what I felt.
At odd moments while writing, a line would pop in my head or something I wrote down would stick out, so I’d make a note of that on the side. And when I finally finished writing, I was left with three stories and the bits and beginnings of three new songs.
Even after that night, I continued to write of my time with Chloe, and create songs out of those moments. I didn’t write of all the encounters we ever had. If I did, I think the world would have run out of paper. It would have been impossible to write of every time I ever saw her, every time I heard her voice, every time I thought of her beautiful face. So instead, I wrote when I felt compelled to write. Whether that was because of something significant happening in our relationship or if I just felt a song coming on, I just wrote.
Looking back on all the separate stories now, it’s easy to see that really, all of these experiences in some way shaped our relationship, and its outcome. The most important experiences created the songs. They give an outline to our relationship, a perfect outline, really. It starts out right, has the correct middle, and a perfect ending.
