When we moved to New Smyrna Beach right before my first FAWM in 2018, we’d landed in a tiny apartment while our house was being built. Okay, it was two bedrooms but coming from our Vegas house, our stuff was crammed in there. Besides some storage, we had to put the bedroom dresser in the dining room, the book case in the bathroom, music studio and home office in the extra bedroom, etc.

Anyway, I felt claustrophobic and started writing a story I was calling “Tiny Apartment.” The premise was about a woman who was getting odd messages from strangers like “You were great last night” etc. She didn’t realize she was sleepwalking. Anyway, I put that aside and just dug it out for the Nov/Nov writing challenge. I started stalling on the story so I wrote an outline of sorts listing songs I might write for FAWM to help me with the plot. This is song #3 “Second Date.”

Mixed in headphones.

Song #2 for FAWM (February Album Writing Month) continues the theme of song #1, “Night Moon.” and is called “Woman in Black.”

Funny thing about the “Sazerac” line. I’d jotted down some lyrics while writing about a woman who sleepwalks and ends up in a place called the “Night Moon.” Later, when we were sailing on “Star of the Seas,” Lou’s Jazz Club had a drink called the Jazzy Saz, a play on Sazerac. Maybe it’s a thing now.

Mixed in headphones.