Cherry Flavoured Kiss

V1 When I look out across the rolling hills

And see the big houses there with luxury throughout

the gates alarms / and finial-finished walls

pillars and railings too / tell you to KEEP OUT

It really means that x3

Means that they’ve arrived

They seem they think that x3

Without it they’re deprived

V2 I wonder did / I ever think I

would / have any of that myself

And was it worth a prayer?

The question is / what happened to my life /

Blink of a liquid eye

And was I really there?

And then I look back x3 / And wonder why and how

don’t think I want that x3 / kind of lifestyle now

Mid 8 ‘ And then you realise

You didn’t want a house that size

you didn’t want the biggest car

showing off around the bar

So the question is / what did you want

pretentious fancy restaurants

no longer make you purr

You’re happier with her

v3 it was enough just to be walking home

with a girl who is on your arm someone who’s tons of fun

it was enough / just to be feeling close

feel the fire inside your heart / the warmth has just begun

then I remember x3

those cherry flavoured lips

It takes me back to x3

that cherry flavoured kiss

Mid section … then I remember

A happy song about how affluence is not important when you have love.

OK so I wrote and recorded this after Katy Perry's 2008 hit but it refers to an incident in 1973 when I kissed a girl in Wimbledon and her lips tasted of cherries. Her girlfriend tasted of apricots according to my mate but us ignorant boys didn't realise that it was chapstick.

I remixed this for Holly to try and make it a bit more contemporary with more of a Caribbean flavour and the cascading arpeggios

Recording Nov 2017