This is another tune I wrote in college, about this girl I was really into. We’d hang out and I wanted to be her boyfriend but we never acted like boyfriend and girlfriend. I found out the reason she resisted and it was because, of course, she had a boyfriend I originally didn’t know about.

The song is about that ambiguous sadness. You don’t know why you feel this way until you find out the hard truth that leaves you in no man’s land emotionally. I like the song’s slightly complicated blues structure. When I first composed it, it was a long, rambling six-minute tune with all kinds of extraneous riffs. I revised it later with more structure. I had fun arranging it and playing different instrument sounds on my keyboard, including acoustic guitar and cello! Dean James has an awesome solo on this one! There’s no way I could approximate his type of emotion on my keyboard. David added the electric guitar on this one too.