Steve Key: Songs/Lyrics

Golden

(Steve Key)

Music by Steve Key, Lyric by Steve Key & Ann Wertman (Anna Prince), adapted from her poem "When I Met You, You Were Yellow"

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Ann and I met at an open mic I was hosting in Vienna, VA. We tried the usual co-write, sitting a room together and brainstorming, but got nowhere. Then Ann said she had some poems, perhaps one of them could be adapted into a song? I loved her poetry, and "When I Met You, You Were Yellow". I worked on it by myself one Sunday morning in 2003, then played it that afternoon for Ann, who approved. We sang it together than night at the Frederick Coffee Company in Frederick MD. We performed several times at other venues. Been a few years since I've seen Ann, last heard from her in Tempe AZ, where she was performing under the name Anna Prince.

v.1 New and tender like the spring
I was open to everything
I was green, so green
You smiled at me and I couldn't think
I must've blushed a perfect pink
Like a rose, unfolding slow
ch You were Golden
And you made me shine
And I thought that you were mine
For a brief but precious time
And I was Golden too
Golden, like you

v.2 You were silent, strong and deep
A lake full of mystery
You were blue, so blue
And I was burning with your love
Every night, never enough
Burning red, oh so red (to chorus)
v.3 But then you turned out the lights
And you left me in the night
It was black, so black
No more fire, only smoke
No more colors when I woke
Only white, cold and white (to chorus)