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It Could Have Been Me

by Veronique Acoustique

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Written in 1979, and rewritten several times, this version recorded around 1989, released in 1995, Track 6 on the ‘Thelma and Louise’ tape album. Like ‘Red’ this was a song I first wrote when I was 18 and living for a few months in a shared room in a chaotic run down house in Clapham, it was rough. I wrote a lot of depressing songs in my teens which I later didn’t like, so I deleted verses and changed the chorus completely a couple of times. In the 1990s it was one of the more popular songs I regularly played at Bunjies folk cellar in Litchfield Street. Although it was only a very simple song, with simple words and easy to play and sing, people liked it anyway and it seemed to ‘strike a chord’ with other women. An older black woman with dreads once came up to me after I came off stage at the Albany in Deptford, she hugged me and told me she loved that song and had felt the same things. It meant a lot to me. I knew I was reaching the right people, those who had experienced difficult things.

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It Could Have Been Me
Verse 1:
Once there was a girl I met
Who lived on vodka, scotch and cigarettes
She didn’t do much, got too depressed
She was unlucky her life was a mess
It could have been me, it could have been me
V. 2
She had a man who made her worse
The day she met him must have been cursed
And when he hurt her, she could not cry
She loved him so much she never knew why
It could have been me, it could have been me
Chorus:
Hold on to your life
It may not seem worth much but it’s worth the fight
I’m tired of playing silly games
People laughing at me calling me names
Because I’ve been down your road, down the road of despair
and I’ve come out the other side ooh
V.3:
She had a temper she could not contain
Though she was the only one to ever take the blame
She never stopped long in any one place
It felt so good to kick the world in the face
It could have been me, it could have been me
Chorus
V. 4.
But one day someone pushed her too far
The pain was too much to numb in some bar
She felt driven and she could not resist
To drive her car off the edge of a cliff
It could have been me, it could have been me
It could have been me, it could have been me

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released January 1, 1995
Veronique Acoustique: song, guitar, singing, recording, mixing.

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Veronique Acoustique London, UK

I am an acoustic singer-songwriter but experiment with electronic, psychedelic and electronic music.I arrange, edit, and record music. I've been doing this for ages.
I don't like strict musical categories. I want a fairer peaceful world. I get stage nerves. I play Javanese gamelan and Sundanese zither.The photo on my profile was taken in 2006. I am doing a PhD in Ethnomusicology. ... more

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