Today I’m spinning Blue Valentines from my imaginary demo album The Ghosts That Haunt Me. After a botched marriage ceremony and a disastrous breakup, I moved to Orlando to get my life back on track. I found writing songs helped me through it all. I recorded the songs in my living room, using an old Tascam 4-track recorder. The only effect used on the recordings (because it was the only effect I had) was a wee bit of reverb.

There was a woman in Orlando who I liked very much and she liked me. The only problem was she was already in a relationship. Ain’t that the way. One night we were both at a party and we ended up being the last two people there. We knew it was impossible to have a relationship and it was quite painful. I knew I wasn’t the first person in the history of the world to have those feelings but in the moment it felt like it. Man it was painful.

So I went home that night, picked up my guitar and wrote “Blue Valentines.” The song, like a lot of the songs on the imaginary demo album, is very much a meditative song. It doesn’t follow the verse/chorus/bridge map. It’s more contemplative and introspective. At least that’s what I tell myself.

If you’re in a wild mood, you also can listen to “The Rain” and “The Wounded Circus.”

Anyway here it is. “Blue Valentines.”