Story Behind The Song

The third song in a 10 song cycle about these two characters and a boy who lost his arm in a turbine engine

Song Description

Boy meets girl, hangs out, listens to her tell a story, says stuff he regrets later

Lyrics

Meanwhile

Joe met Delores on the beach one fine day
and he bought one of her ocean postcards
He liked the way she had rendered the seagulls
and then he asked her out for some seafood
Who would have guessed they would meet this way?
Who would have guessed it would be so strange?
They found love that night in the house Delores built
from scraps washed up alongside highway 101

Meanwhile he?s sorry for what he said to her
Meanwhile he?s sorry for what he did not say

There was something on her mind, he could tell
and he asked her about it
Delores said she?d never go back to the city
and then she told him the story
How could she know it would move him so?
He didn?t know it would be so strange
He imagined himself as the boy in the turbine
He looked at both hands to make sure they were there