I've always loved that line from Kate Bush, in her song, "Love and Anger" and the other line, 'We're building a house of the future together.'Once I was hanging out with Robyn Hitchcock in my room at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and he was playing for me on his guitar, "Oh Yeah!" by Roxy Music, I was recording him and his girlfriend left to go get something out of their room, so it was just the two of us and he got to the lyrics, 'There's a band playing on the radio with a rhythm of rhyming guitars. They playing 'oh yeah' on the radio, Oh oh oh oooh. And so it came to be our song..." and it occurred to me that if I really want to woo a girl I should learn to play the guitar. So after the song I asked him about it and he said there was no other reason to learn to play guitar.Tried and tried to learn, but it was just too hard for me. Love wasn't going to be easy. My fingers hurt. Maybe love wasn't important enough for me to suffer for it. Besides, my singing voice is awful. But I knew so many people that played and they were always pulling out the guitar to serenade their lovers. Maybe I would have to find another way. It might be that my way is to stand outside a girl's bedroom window and hold my boombox above my head playing "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel...Or maybe for me it's writing, but what girl is ever going to fall in love with me from just reading things like this?
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