Before I started writing seriously again, I took a week off work as an experiment to just sit and write at the piano. I had a great time, and one of the tunes I came up with was this one. But I had no lyrics, and no matter how I wracked my brains I couldn't find anything I could bear to listen to.
A few months later, I heard about a folk club called Rasputin's that had a long-standing open stage night. So I went along and sang one night. While I was there, I heard about a song-writing group called Writers' Bloc, which met every month at the Ottawa Folklore Centre. And they had an annual event call the Song-Along, in which they published four topics, and writers from the area would write a song and perform it at Rasputin's.
Seemed like an interesting idea, so I wrote down the topics - one of which was "you said". And by good fortune, these words fit the chorus - as soon as I sang it I got this picture in my head of two people sitting together in a coffee shop, talking about breaking up their relationship after many struggles. Was "You Said" an accusation? Maybe not.
If you'd like to play this song, here's a lead sheet, suitable for guitar players.
And here's a version with a piano part (very simple).
Here's one that shows some of the cello part from the CD.
If you perform this live, you would do me, yourself, and all other songwriters a favour by getting a licence from SOCAN (unless the venue you are performing in already has one) and reporting the songs you sing. For recordings contact Quiet Voice Music.