Where I Belong

Robert James

The miracle here is that I was able to upload this using the guest wifi at Disney World and it didn’t take six days! Nice!

The lyrics are about how I used to be a cynical asshole when it came to love and relationships and then I met my wife and suddenly I’m a walking/talking teen pop love song. Oh well. It worked out in the end, right?

Musically this song is a good example of a crutch I’ve been leaning on this RPM/FAWM season: The long drawn out quieter section. Guitar wise it continues my current tonal love affair with the Klon KTR overdrive pedal, and the Wren and Cuff Tri Pi ‘70, Big Muff Pi clone. Every guitar part I’ve recorded this year has been through a mic’d amp, but strangely (for me) I think this is the only song that has guitar feedback. I usually put that stuff on everything.

The guitars are all Les Paul through two Fender Bassbreakers.

Chorus
I used to think that I could handle things alone
I never knew that I was wrong
I thought that I could maybe keep myself afloat
But now I know where I belong

Verse 1
back in time when I was so much younger
all alone always lost by myself
then I found my true opposite number
That’s when life began

since that day when she first appeared to me
when my place in the world had to change
Now it starts to make sense and I can see
I can be that man

Verse 2
sing a song to the one who completes you
open up to the one you adore
all the walls start to fall it’s a breakthrough
It means so much more

back in time when I was so much younger
all alone always lost by myself
then I found my true opposite number
Opened every door