All I Wanted Was You

I woke up to him running his fingers through my hair.
“Princess time to get up.”
I stirred around.
“What did you call me?”
He pushed back my hair.
“I called you princess, why? I can’t call you that?”
“Its fine its just that.”
“What is it?”
“My dad use to call me that.”
“Oh I won’t call you that if you want.”
“No its okay. I kind of missed it.”
He smiled.
“Come on princess we have to get up and we have to head to the studio. I am going to order some tea you want anything?”
“Get me a chamomile one please?”
“No problem.”
I went to my room and popped out my suitcase and grabbed a dress and some shoes.
“Rob are we going to be inside all day?”
“I think we are.”
Okay so dress out, come on pants.
I slipped everything, grabbed my messenger bag and headed back to the other room.
“Hey gorgeous, let me just get dressed and we will be on our way. Your tea is on the table.”
We walked out of the hotel hand in hand and with our teas in the other.
It wasn’t a long walk 10 minutes tops.
“Whoa….is this Capitol Records?”
“Yes it is.”
“I never thought I would set foot in this place.”
“Well now you can say you have. Come on.”
The receptionist told us to head to studio B.
We walked in to find the songwriters and the guy at the mixboard.
“Oh okay you are here come head in there and do your thing.”
“Alright can my girl stick around.”
“No problem man she can watch.”
“Okay good. Hey princess just take a seat and relax.”
“Cool I will just sit in right.”
“Write me something.”
“I will try haha.”
He smiled and gave me a quick kiss and headed into the vocal booth.
He put on his headphones and looked down at the lyrics.
After a few minutes he gave the thumbs up and the playback started.
This slow haunting melody came from the booth and I closed my eyes and let it get a hold of me.
And soon enough a voice followed it.

“Standing there by a broken tree
Her hands are all twisted, she was pointing at me
I was damned by the light, coming out of her eyes
She spoke with a voice that disrupted the sky”

I opened my eyes to find his closed and concentrating
He had the lyrics memorized.

“She said walk on over here to the bitter shade
I will wrap you in my arms and you’ll know that you are saved
Let me sign
Let me sign”

I sat in my seat watching him feeling amazed, and goosebumps rising on my arms.
I sat there listening to him sing the entire song.
Then he looked up and smiled at me and slipped off his headphones.
He waved at the mixboard guy and he clicked something
“How was that guys?”
“That was amazing.”
“All in one take no less.”
“Thanks. It’s a really great song.”
“I think your girlfriend is kind of speechless.”
I shook my head.
“Yeah sorry he just sent me into a day dream state, that was amazing.”
He smiled.
“So Bobby, Marcus is that all you needed?”
“Yeah man I thought we were going to be here all day but that one take was awesome.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yeah Rob you are free man enjoy the day. Take the girl out to see the city.”
“Call if you need anything.”
“Will do man.”
He came out of the booth and came to me.
“So we have an entire day what do you want to do?”
“Anything I want?”
“Anything.”
“Can I get a tour of this place?”
“I think we can do that. Bobby you think they would mind if we toured the place Belinda is a fan of it.”
“I don’t think they will. Your girl a singer?”
“Yeah she sings, plays guitar and piano why?”
“Oh just asking. Yeah just look around man.”
He took me around and showed me all the pictures they had of musicians who recorded here.
“This is so amazing.”
“it is.”
“I have always had a dream to record something here.”
“Something?”
“A song, just one to say I did it here. Anything musical and book related is like my utopia. To sing something that will mean something to someone, and to read a line in a book that just stays with you forever. I always wanted to do something like that. To mean something to someone.”
He looked at me
“I have never met anyone with as much passion as you.”
“I sound silly don’t i?”
“no you don’t. You are so amazing Belinda and you don’t even see.”
I smiled.
“I don’t know how you see all this in me”
“I see it, I see it all. And I love you for it.”
“So what do we do now?”
“Come on I know where.”
“Where?”
“It’s a surprise.”