MOTIVATION
I'd told my date that she'd become my girlfriend after I had asked her. I'm old fashioned that way, and it's also a bit of tradition. We're not a couple, until I've officially asked you to be my girlfriend. After a few weeks though, she obviously started to become impatient and a tad frustrated that she couldn't introduce me as "This is my boyfriend".
Meanwhile though, I'd started writing this song. Every few weeks a bit more to it, after I got the idea for the chorus at work, or while driving home. It took me quite a while to finish it, because although she became frustrated about not being able to say that I was her boyfriend, I hadn't felt like her boyfriend so far. Maybe the two did go hand in hand though. I still felt like she wasn't making time for me, and rather spend it with someone else.
One evening, we were invited to come over for dinner at one of her friends' place. We really went as a couple, and I remember loving it so much. I finally felt like a true couple. That evening, she brought up how we weren't officially a couple yet, and I said I'd planned a way to ask her, but couldn't do it because there was no guitar.
There was a ukulele though. I went upstairs to practice, because I'd never played one before. I came downstairs, played the song of the top of my head, and it worked like a charm. She was completely in tears, and I was trying not to choke up, not to forget the words, remember the right chords and just overall get it right. After I'd finished the song, I offically asked her to be my girlfriend. Although she tried not to show how much she loved it, it all fell through by the time we got home as the first thing she apparantly had done after I finsihed the song was change her Facebook status to "In a relationship with..."
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EXPLANATION
The lyrics to this song are pretty much we started dating and the dating then eventually blossomed into a relationship.
The first verses talk about meeting her in The Hague, and me being absolutely unable to detect as to whether a girl is interested or not. She had said I'd know, but I had to ask her myself, though her smile had betrayed her all throughout that day. She had said she wasn't a fan of public display of affection, so once I did kiss her she looked uncomfortable. I had to get on a tram to head back to my car, but right before I got in, she pulled me close to her and stole a kiss. I remember licking my lips and still tasting hers, which was a feeling I hadn't felt for a long time. After that,I couldn't wait to just start making out with her on her sofa, and it took me a few more dates to finally get what I wanted.
The last verses talk about the cultural differences, and have a punchline in them of which I knew I had to play live one time to a bunch of British people, as it's a play on words in relation to Back For Good by Take That. I'd found out that pretty much every girl in her thirties has at a certain point in her life been a fan of Take That. I never quite got the fascination for the band, and that evening she made me listen to a couple of more tunes. I still didn't get it, but each to her own.
That punchline was the best joke I'd ever put in a song, it worked like a charm and was the icing on the cake. I felt mighty proud, because I'd just landed myself a girlfriend.
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