Melissa Trinchere

"This record is about the boys that heavily influenced my life. They are divided into the elements: AIR, FIRE, EARTH, WATER because I felt that it was more important that the songs be separated by each boy and his respective element rather than ordered sonically. I could have made a bad decision because the songs might not "flow" as they should. But I don't regret that decision one bit. This EP is all about feelings and they tend to have no logic.

Starting out with Changing Tide, he was the first boy that made my heart thump. I mean I had crushes before, but this one lasted 6 years. It was pretty heavy. We were "friends" although there was a lot of attraction there, you know how that goes. I spent a good chunk of my life chasing after him, trying to help him. It was very frustrating. The chorus; Help the changing tide/today I'll be your bride/tonight I sing so still all against my will...It's like, you think you can shape someone to be what you want them to be, because that's the way you know it's "supposed" to go when really years later, I realized...you are who you are and people don't change.

Captivity is about the same boy, it's like...we are very spiritually connected, so I would feel him in my thoughts and vice versa, I still could if I wanted to. I can feel where his mind is, concerning me, I've rarely ever been wrong. And every once in a while I'd get kinda annoyed that he wanted me to let him go, while he was out there holding on to me.

Here It Is was written just after the new year of 2002 that's when things began crashing down with "the friend" nasty stuff was revealed and my feelings were hurt immensely, as usual - and I'm just kinda saying, well...I'm not surprised things turned out this way. I'm a lover, I'm a feeler and that may seem pathetic and desperate to people like him, he's more cerebral and I tend to gravitate towards matters of the heart.

Le Soleil is a segue into a very powerful phase in my adolescence. It was the first piece of music I ever wrote. I was trying to "get over" my first love and this came pouring out of me. I call it the sun because it's like shining rays of light streaming over my entire being. I started to really understand my grief. Sometimes we're sad and we can't put our finger on why. Well in this case, I knew and instead of seeing my pain as a burden, I learned to appreciate it with this tune. It represents illumination of what's most important, our feelings.

Without You is like a dark room that you sit in during a wonderful time in your life...fearing that this will become your world, very soon. Everything has to end, sometime. And with relationships you either have your run, split - or you get together, get and stay married and die. Either way it is very balanced, you've got your good and you've got your bad, the darkness. Sometimes while in a perfectly blissful state I get kinda scared that I will soon be miserable.

First Love is very self explanatory. When I wrote this song, the first few weeks the words wouldn't come. I got obsessed with the notes. It haunted me. Although I didn't know exactly what the song was going to be about before the lyrics came, but I knew that it was going to end up being about "the first love" because it was dark (in my mind), but I would see his green eyes out of the darkness of the music. Then...boom! The words showed up and this is my favorite song on the record. I love to sing it, I love to play it and I love how it makes me feel.

I Want You is kind of a plea. There is a lot of emotional desperation in this record, a lot of longing. This song might be the anthem, I'm not sure. I went away to college and met this beautiful creature and I wanted him even more because I couldn't have him. That's the way I am sometimes.

Andrew is the "I saved myself from too much heartache this time" song. He's one of the few guys I've actually "dated" in my life. We had a lot of fun together. He was so unreal. A rare breed. I wanted more than he did, so we parted ways just in time for my heart not to be smashed, so I still think of him very fondly. It (the song) has a flow. And when I play this song, it's like I'm stroking his hair. It's very lush and magical, just like the moment in time we spent together."

-Melissa Trinchere