Couple of days
Verse 1:
Do you recall
So long ago
Who we were
It’s hard to know
I think about
All we shared
I remember
How much I cared
Chorus:
They were just
A couple of days
We spent walking on the beach and talking in cafes
And after that couple of days
We just smiled and said goodbye
We went our separate ways
Verse 2:
For so long
I couldn’t find
The reasons I
Had been so blind
What is true
I can’t be sure
But I believe
That this memory is pure
Bridge:
Didn’t know if I’d
Ever see you again
It’s been so many years
I hardly remember when
I didn’t know
The kind of reality
We were creating when you
Walked on the beach with me
Chorus:
They were just
A couple of days
We spent walking on the beach and talking in cafes
And after that couple of days
We just smiled and said goodbye
We went our separate ways
Verse 3:
Where in the world
Did we meet?
What was your name?
What made our time so sweet?
What kind of dream
Gets revealed to me
When I find I’m in need
Of a favourite memory?
Chorus:
But they were just
A couple of days
We spent walking on the beach and talking in cafes
And after that couple of days
We just smiled and said goodbye
We went our separate ways
There are two ways to describe where this song came from. More accurately there are at least two. Give me time and I’ll come up with a few more. The phase, “A couple of days”, sounding a lot like it does in the song, occurred to me at some point. It took a long time to work out what the song should be about and a longer time to flesh it out into the song it’s become.
The other way to talk about it is … I have memories from a long time ago that I hold onto as special moments. Moments that have the flavour of might have beens. I know enough about memory to know that those memories are unreliable. Maybe they happened, maybe they didn’t. And if they happened they almost certainly didn’t happen the way my memory says they did. But I still value them as memories. They’re special to me.
can’t help but think everyone has a memory they can relate to the lyrics ♥️
I like it. You’re very prolific these days. The nice thing about getting older is there are lots of memories to write songs about.