Ben Naddaff-Hafrey

I did, in fact, leave the saw on the wall because that was by then a crucial part of the decor and my identity and remains so. I don't remember what I did with the change corner. There's a good chance the change corner sort of remained.

I did, in fact, leave the saw on the wall because that was by then a crucial part of the decor and my identity and remains so. I don't remember what I did with the change corner. There's a good chance the change corner sort of remained.

The growing up process is a slow one, but it began with fixing up that first room. There was a moment I remember where she came and visited. It was early spring and we had this really wonderful weekend together exploring the city and she'd grown up in New York and I was kind of new there and she was showing me around and

The growing up process is a slow one, but it began with fixing up that first room. There was a moment I remember where she came and visited. It was early spring and we had this really wonderful weekend together exploring the city and she'd grown up in New York and I was kind of new there and she was showing me around and

went to like a lebanese church and i'm lebanese and it was kind of like a they just wandered in because they were having like a food festival kind of thing like there were a lot of wonderful serendipitous things yeah um and i remember it was after that visit i think on the day that she had left that i was hanging out in my room and i was playing guitar and i started writing this song

went to like a lebanese church and i'm lebanese and it was kind of like a they just wandered in because they were having like a food festival kind of thing like there were a lot of wonderful serendipitous things yeah um and i remember it was after that visit i think on the day that she had left that i was hanging out in my room and i was playing guitar and i started writing this song

Like a lot of hack guitar players, I use a lot of open tunings. And around that time, I had been playing The Rain Song by Led Zeppelin, which is a version of open C tuning. And so I just would like keep my guitar in that. And I remember figuring out the sort of main guitar line and then messing around with the words over it.

Like a lot of hack guitar players, I use a lot of open tunings. And around that time, I had been playing The Rain Song by Led Zeppelin, which is a version of open C tuning. And so I just would like keep my guitar in that. And I remember figuring out the sort of main guitar line and then messing around with the words over it.

If I didn't know you by now Complaining.

If I didn't know you by now Complaining.

You know, I'm not a professional songwriter. This was a song that like definitely did not come easily to me, but it felt sort of like inspired by that moment and that feeling. It was kind of like a reflection of the fact that I was noticing that my life was changing and an expression of gratitude to her for bringing me to the place where I wanted to do that.

You know, I'm not a professional songwriter. This was a song that like definitely did not come easily to me, but it felt sort of like inspired by that moment and that feeling. It was kind of like a reflection of the fact that I was noticing that my life was changing and an expression of gratitude to her for bringing me to the place where I wanted to do that.

I think that that is just what it was. I think it's just because that was sort of where it came from. So I don't think it was a realization ever. It was just kind of, that was the feeling it started from. I'd have backed it up and turned around

I think that that is just what it was. I think it's just because that was sort of where it came from. So I don't think it was a realization ever. It was just kind of, that was the feeling it started from. I'd have backed it up and turned around

So yeah, I was in a long distance relationship, both then with Julia, because she was living in Nashville, but then also with the lead singer of my band, Adam, who he was in like the UK getting a master's in medieval literature or something. And we were always working on an album in the background, usually as like an escape hatch from like one or another job that we didn't want to do.

So yeah, I was in a long distance relationship, both then with Julia, because she was living in Nashville, but then also with the lead singer of my band, Adam, who he was in like the UK getting a master's in medieval literature or something. And we were always working on an album in the background, usually as like an escape hatch from like one or another job that we didn't want to do.

So we were always like kind of trading versions of things. We spent a lot of time basically on every song, just like trying to get it right, recording and re-recording, that kind of thing. And I would always share those things with Julia. And she, like a joke evolved where she sort of teasingly would be like, is this song about me?

So we were always like kind of trading versions of things. We spent a lot of time basically on every song, just like trying to get it right, recording and re-recording, that kind of thing. And I would always share those things with Julia. And she, like a joke evolved where she sort of teasingly would be like, is this song about me?

A thing that I would always like flatly deny, she'd come to shows and she would like, we would always have these long introductions to our songs, but often we wrote historical songs. It's like Mark Twain's brother died in a steamship accident and like there would be a long preamble to the song about Samuel Clemens' brother who dies in this horrible way.

A thing that I would always like flatly deny, she'd come to shows and she would like, we would always have these long introductions to our songs, but often we wrote historical songs. It's like Mark Twain's brother died in a steamship accident and like there would be a long preamble to the song about Samuel Clemens' brother who dies in this horrible way.