Nostalgia

"Nostalgia" was originally written as a farewell song to friends from summer camp, at the point when we were going our separate ways off to college. I then reprised it when I changed high schools after 10th grade. Finally, when I recorded it during senior year of high school, it took on a new meaning in the four-song cycle. It represented the stage in which one looks fondly back on past unrequited love and with a shrug, chooses to emphasize the bright points. So now, the full cycle goes like so:

Song
1) A Picture of You: Love's first bloom
2) Amiss: It is not requited
3) Three Years Too Late: It may be requited, upon flimsy bases
4) Nostalgia: "Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"

Here it is, from the album "In the Studio," featuring some neat sax fills from Ian Smolkin, and some overdubbed harmonic high voices towards the end which are purely creatures of the studio:
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