Yesterday, Amber called me and said “Hey, what’s this song?” and then she held up a little electronic kids guitar up to phone and made it play one of the demo songs. Apparently, the little boy that she nanny’s is really into the song and wanted to know what it was called. I listened closely but it was hard to figure out all distorted through the phone mic. She played it again and I realized that it sounds vaguely like a ‘The Police’ song. I don’t really know anything about that band but somehow I could tell it was them. Then I picked out a lyric by singing along with the melody, yes: “Message in a bottle”.
Then later that night I was at a band meeting hanging out at someone’s house. The keyboard player in my band picked up the guitar and immediately started playing a tune. I said: “Wait a second! WHAT ARE YOU PLAYING”. And he said “Message in a Bottle”. I asked him if he played it a lot and he said “huh, you know, I haven’t played this song in a really long time.”