Lovers Recipe

“It’s the strong emotional impulse driving this song [Lovers Recipe] that sells me on it and gets me listening over and over. I love a song that makes me feel something, and this one does. It’s a melancholy and nostalgic feeling, reinforced by its lyrics.”

— SF Critic

“‘Lovers Recipe’ is pretty great. I adore the nod at the baggage and brokenness we bring to every relationship. I agree that no matter how we try to move away from our past, it changes who we are, no matter how minutely, and we bring that to each new partnership that we try to create. What a great song.”

— Relate Mag

The instructions call for three equal parts:
Her love, my love, and your broken heart
So go ahead, crack it open so we can start

I'm so sorry
It won't be easy
I know ‘cause that's been me
I've been the past other
In this lovers recipe

Please don't let yourself forget what you meant every time
You held your fist to your chest and then you pressed it to mine
Even though I know we can't rewind

I'm so sorry
It won't be easy
I know ‘cause that's been me
I've been the past other
In this lovers recipe

Love is unpredictable and uncontrollable. Sometimes what the heart wants is tragically inconvenient. I wrote "Lovers Recipe" after the awkward and painful situation of leaving an unhealthy relationship to form a romance with one of my best friends.
- Jesse

Track 1 off of Willow Steps EP, titled "A Truth Too Big to See".

D/F#: 2 0 0 2 3 2
Dsus2/F#: 2 0 0 2 3 0
Gomit3: 3 x 0 0 3 3
Gmaj7omit3: 3 x 0 0 3 2
G6omit3: 3 x 0 0 3 0
Gsus2: 3 x 0 0 3 5

Verse:
Em7 | A | D | G 3x

(Verse is all bar chords)
(Passing note of F# after the first two G chords)

Chorus:
Bm A | G G/B 3x
G | G-bar-chord

(In the first measure, the A chord is on the “and” of beat 2, and the 4th beat is missing.)
G/B: 7 5 0 0 0 7