| I've always
read about people getting song ideas while out at a bar or club, and writing
the
lyrics down on a napkin, but I'd never done it until I wrote "Black And White". (I'd written lyrics on matchbooks, hotel stationery, scraps of paper, and even a coaster or two... but not on a napkin.) Then one evening I was at the bar at the Longhorn, a now-defunct music biz hangout just off Music Row in Nashville, and a guy I barely knew started telling me about his impending divorce. He'd known there were problems, he said, but until he'd received a letter from his about-to-be ex-wife, he didn't know exactly what was going on. I listened and sympathized... and as soon as he left, I grabbed the aforementioned napkin! - Steve H. |
1. I have heard rumors / all over
town / that, girl, you'd found someone new
But I swore I'd never believe it
/ not until I heard it from you
Then today I got your letter / tellin'
me it's true
And now that I've seen it / in black
and white / I'm blue
chorus: Now that I've seen
it / written on paper / I'm really sure
And I can't deny it / no, I can't
lie / to my heart anymore
Oh, why / can't dreams come true
Now that I've seen it / in black
and white / I'm blue
2. Guess I'd been hoping / that our
love was real / and that you'd feel like I do
I guess I was happy believing / that
love would pull us through
Now I'm reading your letter over
/ and I'm missing you
And now that I've seen it / in black
and white / I'm blue
repeat chorus.
| "Black And
White" appears on the Steve Haggard CD,
Mysterious Ways.
Available on Wild Oats Records (OAT-714) |