Unrequited love makes for the best songs.
She was the best-friend of a girlfriend, and I fell head-over-heels. She, being a really good person, would not betray her best friend (my girlfriend) for me, even though she was into me. And I had to respect that.
So I did what any self-respecting musician would do and I wrote a song. I don’t even know where she is these days, but the song lives on and pays homage to a very human moment in time.
The thing I remember most about this song is that I’d written the whole thing except for one line. There was a blank spot in the song and I had nothing to fill it. Just one line… and the song that I’d always consider my songwriting pièce de résistance would be complete.
It came to me in the bathtub at my apartment, and I ran out of the room, naked and wet, to write that last line: “I wish I didn’t know that who you know could sometimes make you cry.”