"You Have Changed my Face" is a love song from 2000, based on the idea that one looks difference in appearance when one is in love. I'd spent the last couple of years starting to brighten up my dismal point of view and a new love seemed to be the cherry on top of it all.

I make a reference in the second verse to Myrtle Beach, SC, and the Grand Strand--its beach--where a lot of Canadians would flock on vacation come springtime. I spent just about every vacation there as a kid and everywhere I looked I would see that old ad for Coppertone Suntan Oil: the one with the little girl whose bathing suit is being pulled down by a mischievous dog so that we can see how white her little bottom is. The tagline was, "Tan Don't Burn Use Coppertone." I swear that's the way they wrote it, too, with no punctuation, because as a kid, the grammar of it mystified me. I didn't realize the line was supposed to comprise three imperative sentences. I thought perhaps what they meant to say was, "Tan doesn't burn, using Coppertone." I just couldn't understand why grownups would deliberately use the present plural form of "to do" for tan, a singular noun. By late high school, however, I managed to parse their intended meaning.

I'm using an egg shaker pick on this one, giving the tune that extra percussion that means so much in a sparse arrangement.