25 Bad Songs: 6a. "How It Started (Virginia Woolf)"

NOTE: If you’d like to skip my commentary and go straight to the song, go to 2:01. However, I do suggest listening to the whole episode!

Thanks for tuning into the fifth episode of “25 Bad Songs,” an Art In All Its Forms podcast series where I write 25 songs — one song a week — and show you how I did it.

Today’s song, “How It Started (Virginia Woolf),” tells a story of a relationship beginning and how two people can build the foundation for a connection that lasts.

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Lyrics so far:

Verse 1
She read Virginia Woolf
Sitting on a chair in the back of the courtyard
Like it was a room of her own
A room of her own

And that was all it took
For me to knock on her imaginary door
Too soon to know
How far it would go

Pre-chorus
Well it starts with something in common
A book or a movie, a poem
Then you’re out to dinner and you’re talkin’
Holdin’ your hands while you’re walkin’

And you can’t wait to tell all of your friends
Holy shit this is happening
Time seems to be moving faster
Let’s take a minute, flash forward

Chorus
Twenty years later you’re thinking about
How it started (x3)
Sitting there together and thinking about
How it started (x3)