Añoranza is a Spanish word that means something like yearning for the past, akin to nostalgia. This song has only a little to do with the word, which was introduced to me by my lovely friend Hope in a poem of hers titled Añoranza. I thought it would make a nice name, so I wrote a song about a woman named Anoranza. I finished it in Fall 2020, around the same time as It Lives in You, Along the Way, and I and Love and One.
The music is very loosely inspired by the feeling of listening to library music from the 1960s. The misty moods, floaty woodwinds, and sultry Rhodes keyboards. But it’s really a dark folk tale about infidelity and stubborn wills.1
Anoranza says, "Come home, again. Please, just one more night. I need to know if I can feel Your touch through my wedding dress. "I need to know if this love is real, And your face was always right." So I said I'd come but she would Not find her home by my side. She says, "I loved him like I loved you, But he won't touch my dress. I need to feel pressed up against Promises that can't be kept." She says she knows why she left me: She wanted too much sex. But now she's lying in a single bed, At home, in a wedding dress. Well, she's as gorgeous as they come, And she knows how to carry a gun, A lawyer by trade she used to say, Winning is all the fun. I tell you this to make it clear, This ain't no Miss Havisham tale. She puts on the dress just once a month, To remember how failure feels. Well, that was 30 years ago and she's 60 now, With two daughters and a dog, And no one asks her why her daughters, Are twelve inches taller than him.
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Much like the album Of Beasts and Beings is drawn from.
Liked it! nice flow. Also liked the lyrics; this was my fav lyric: "I need to feel pressed up against
Promises that can't be kept"
Love this Steve, Great guitar pieces - we could try and do this together sometime - be great to jam along. Show me when we next meet!