Last Night
Last Night
Looking at the night sky
Not a star to be seen
Loneliness in my heart
Wonderin’ where you could be
This painful question I have
Just a cry on the wind
I call to you in my dreams
But you’re gone again
Chorus:
So where were you last night
When I couldn’t sleep
I ached for you all night long
And the secrets you keep.
Bridge:
This is my question
What are you hiding?
I know your stories are full of lies.
I want to love you
You want to fight me
Oh I wonder why, why I even try?
I wish that I could go back
To when love was easy
Would you stay if I said
Just do as you please?
Chorus:
Repeat First Verse
Outro
This is Leslie’s first song that she’s ever written the chord progression for. She used GarageBand on her iPad. She brought that to me, a little shy about it, and asked what I thought. I loved it, and told her that the diminished chord on the line “Loneliness in my heart” was a bit difficult for me to play, but that I’d work on my changes. She answered, “well, it just sounds good!”. I helped with the chorus progression, and I believe that I did most of the melody. Once we had that Leslie wrote most all of the lyrics. The bridge in this song comes very quickly in the song, after the first verse. Typically bridges come later in a song. I had the idea about making it about the guy lying. My line originally was something like, “I know your stories are little lies”, Leslie and Kate changed that to “full of lies”. Kate added, “I want to love you, you want to fight me”. Kate also added the last line of the last verse, “Would you stay if I said just do as you please”. Co-writes are fun and challenging too. To do a co-write with someone you have to be open and leave your ego at the door, and take the risk of saying something stupid (that’s me). But the energy of writing with someone and getting different input is really rewarding. Kate did the lead vocals on this, and I added the harmony a few months later. Kate was in the studio with me when I did them and we worked on them together. She is a natural harmony singer; she just hears the harmony no matter what. I went “high” on the harmony instead of low. I love this song and I’m very happy that Leslie wrote most of this on her own!
