Narrate your experience of listening to a song.

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This is "I Would Have Married You," from "The Truth About Us" Time Easton, 2001, WarnerBros.

First verse. This is a love song. Lonely guy wandering California thinking about his lost girl.

Second verse. He meets a single mom who is hot, but she is too wrapped up being a mom to have time for him, so he ends up thinking about the lost girl again.

Chorus: The reason the lost girl is lost is because, for the first and only time, he would not allow her to do something. When she left him, she said, "I would have married you."

If we were to stop right here, the song is a mystery: what was the thing she wanted to do that was so huge she left him over not being allowed to do it? Does it have to do with the single mom? Was lost girl a single mom before they met, or after? Did she want to get pregnant? Get an abortion?

Third verse: Looking back, he was a cavalier bad ass about leaving her, until he had a phantom feeling of her in bed with him, and when he cried out for her, he realized that not only is she not there, she will never ever be there again. So this lost love was a long time ago, and the loss is the defining thing of his whole life.

Chorus: it's still a mystery. What did she want to do? It was big enough to break off a marriage over.

Bridge: So sneaky. Like a reluctant whispered confession. Telegraphic and incompletely phrased. It's not a mystery anymore.

Chorus: It no longer matters what she wanted to do. She left because he hit her. It could have been anything. She could have wanted pizza for dinner, or to paint the kitchen. It doesn't matter what the thing was, she could never marry someone who hit her.

LA fade into the desert of despair and loss.

Nice work, Tim.