FAWM: "So Long Ago Yet Feels like Yesterday"

So Long Ago Yet Feels like Yesterday

2025 by @musicsongwriter · @wildrainbow

Liner Notes

Dear FAWMers, here is my piano track for my collaboration with Mary @wildrainbow

'So Long Ago Yet Feels like Yesterday' © Copyright 2025 Nadia Cripps and Karen Mary Hudson. Music, piano by Nadia Cripps. Lyrics, vocal melody and vocals by Karen Mary Hudson. Demo by Nadia Cripps and Karen Mary Hudson.

Piano track link: https://nadiacripps.bandcamp.com/track/so-long-ago-yet-feels-like-yesterday

@wildrainbow This began as my first experience of a collaboration and we had fun putting this together. At some point I hope to update the vocals, but time is running out and we wanted you to see what we had done

#jazzy #light #happy #nostalgic #memories #love

Lyrics

Across a smoky, cigarette fuelled haze, Our eyes caught, I met your gaze, I found I had to remember to breathe, Knew we were on the edge of something deep.

CHORUS Our sense of oneness was intense, Together we travelled hidden depths, Our hearts were thumping, souls ablaze, From the moment that we met. Though tragedy forced us apart, You still hold on to my heart. Long ago. Feels like yesterday.

Side by side, hand in hand, Weaving hopes, and dreams, and plans, Your intimate glance, your sensual touch, Held messages of your tender love.

BRIDGE Meeting you was like coming home, You caressed my lips. You kissed my soul. Feels like yesterday.

FINAL CHORUS Our sense of oneness was intense, Together we travelled hidden depths, Our hearts were thumping, souls ablaze, From the moment that we met. Though tragedy forced us apart, You still hold on to my heart. Long ago. Far away. Feels like yesterday.

Comments

@ambroise 2025

"Across a smoky, cigarette fuelled haze," is a splendid way of setting a scene. We're on a journey to a piano jazz ballad and a love story. Also loved the poetry in "You caressed my lips. You kissed my soul. ". #tit4tat

@sp4cek4a3n 2025

Timeless. Wonderful piano, exquisite melody, and it all just fits with the lyrics so hand-in-glove. The slant rhymes keep things from getting too saccharine.

As others have said, there's something very classic about it this. Could be in the middle of a Hitchcock film and I wouldn't bat an eye. Ear?

Excellent collab. #titfortat

@sheilerk 2025

This could be the song playing in a smoky lounge in a movie about WWll, with so many young soldiers leaving sweethearts behind. Lovely piano track, to carry these well written lyrics. Nice collaboration.

@ragbag 2025

It certainly does feel like yesterday now. This wouldn't be out of place in wartime london during the blitz. It really does capture the era. The lyrics too would very much fit with the love and loss of the time. The vocal melody just completes it. This is a first rate song and worth the effort to finish it. :-)

@musicsongwriter 2025

@cathreu thank you so much for your listen and kind and inspiring comment. @mtanguay @erikleppen @ragbag our new demo is posted. If you get the chance, please kindly take a listen :)

@cathreu 2025

So glad I came across this. Nadia has created a lovely, smoky atmosphere yet again, taking me right into the jazz lounge. The music is a perfect pairing for the wistful and longing in the vocal delivery and the lyrics. I don't know who this is being sung to, but heck, I miss them too! Very effective, making my eyes a little wet, which I greatly appreciate!

@ragbag 2025

Very lovely piano music. Fits the lyrics very well I think. Theres a very old world feel to this - at the club, dancing together sort of thing. It will be interesting to hear the vocal line, I imagine it sung in a sultry voice with lashings of romance. very nice. :-) #tit4tat

@erikleppen 2025

The music is wonderful and soothing. I think it really fits the theme of the lyrics. I like the sliding chords, that makes it soft and smooth. The 7th and 9th tonic chords work really nice here.