Sometimes Yesterday

Hi, I'm your ride to fourth street.

Okay. I'm gonna be a lift driver with Jessica in the back.

All right.

Hey, how you doing today?

Well, enjoy your ride.

Did you say something?

This is close enough.

You can just drop me off at the corner.

Hey, boss.

How'd the doctor's appointment go?

Oh, you know, same old thing.

Did some tests and they'll call me

if there's any change, I guess, I don't know.

You want me to swap out those hard drives?

Yeah, if you can.

Okay. Will do.

Yeah, don't worry about staying late, but if you close up,

I appreciate that, the kid's got something going on tonight.

Hey, thanks man.

No problem.

Let me know if you hear anything from the doctor.

Sure, will do.

Hey, what are you doing?

I was walking by and I saw that your clamps came off

of your battery and your battery charger wasn't charged

in the battery, I thought I'd help you out.

Oh, okay, I thought you were stealing it. So, yeah.

You know this neighborhood, but let me jump in it.

It's been on there all day.

Hopefully it came off after it was charged, so.

All right, let's see what happens.

Let's see what happens.

Oh yeah.

Looks like you got power.

Good. We got a full charge.

All right.

Well, I appreciate you coming by.

Glad to help you out.

Actually, you need a battery charger?

Oh, no, I'm... you an have this one.

I promise I'm not gonna need it anymore.

Oh, well, Moosey, looking at this

really isn't making me feel any better.

In fact, if I keep looking at this, I'm gonna go crazy,

start talking to cats.

Oh, here, you jump down. I'm gonna work on that new song.

Maybe that'll get my mind right again. Ugh.

All right. No problem.

Church over on seventh street, their computer's frozen.

Can you get over there and take a look at that?

Yeah, sure.

Okay. Is your car running okay?

Otherwise you can take company vehicle.

No, no, no, I'm good, I'm good. See you in a bit.

I'll be in meetings all day, so if you need anything,

you can text me.

Please feel free to call me in the evening

if anything comes up.

Okay.

The programs we have,

we need them printed by Friday morning.

Please... I will.

- If they need to be done. - I did that last year.

And by the way,

I have a guy coming in to check the computer out.

There's something seems to be wrong with it,

so he'll be here shortly.

Somebody called about a computer repair.

I don't know. It appears to be frozen or something.

It's on the table in there. I gotta catch a plane.

I'm gonna be late. It needs to be done by Sunday morning.

I'll see you on Sunday.

That was beautiful.

Oh, gee, I thought I was alone in here.

Who's that by?

Well, did you like it?

I loved it. That was really nice.

Well, in that case, yeah, I wrote it.

Really?

Yeah, if you said you didn't like it,

I would've said it was by Bon Jovi.

No, I thought it was good. You really wrote that?

Yeah, I really did.

Wow. I've never met a songwriter before.

So what's it about? Is it about somebody you lost?

Oh, I don't know.

I guess it's mainly just a bunch of words that rhyme.

So, are you a professional music writer then?

No, I wish, but actually I'm an it guy.

I fix computers and stuff like that.

I'm actually here, the pastor called me in

to fix his laptop.

Well, this is a funny looking laptop.

So, do you fix 'em by singing to 'em?

Yeah, that's it. But hey, so you like music then?

Of course, I have to love music.

I'm the choir director here at the church.

Oh, really? - Yeah.

Oh, so you know all about music then?

I do.

So, you sing and do you play like instruments in too, or?

No, we have other members that play the instruments.

I just sing and direct the choir.

Oh, that's pretty cool.

So this song, seriously, what made you write it?

Made me write it? What do you mean made me write it?

No, you know what I mean. What's it really about?

I don't know, I guess how, you know,

yesterday kind of seems always better than today.

Why would you think that?

Geez, you are full of questions.

I'm sorry. I just find it very interesting.

No, that's , I'm just giving you a hard time.

I gotta admit, I like talking about music and stuff.

It's, you know, it's cool.

It's nice to talk to somebody about it.

But anyway, while that laptop's updating,

I was actually gonna go grab a bite to eat, get some lunch.

You interested in going with me?

Well, don't you have to fix the laptop?

No, seriously, it's only updating.

It'll literally fix itself.

Right.

No, seriously. Let's go grab some lunch.

And don't let the long hair fool you,

I'm completely harmless, I promise.

And you know, it'd be nice, it's nice to talk about music

with somebody with a music background like you.

So, what do you say? You wanna grab something to eat?

Okay.

So besides work and music, what else are you into?

Well, I've got a cat and 11 turtles.

Turtles? I didn't expect that one.

Most people aren't though.

So, are you in a band or something?

Well, you know, I used to be.

For many years around here I was in, you know, cover bands,

bar bands like that.

But I just got sick of playing other people's music

and I really got sick of the bar scene.

So yeah, I literally, I put down the guitar

and never touched it for maybe 15 years.

And for some reason I picked it up

and started writing and playing again.

And I don't know, I guess I got all the satisfaction

I need outta music by creating.

So is everything you write

like what I heard you play at the church?

No, I mean, a lot of it is, you know,

like old school hard rock.

That's what I used to listen to, what I still listen to.

So that's kinda what I write like,

a lot of the stuff's like that.

You know, as far as, I don't know,

I guess there's really no genre,

I mean, I write all kinds of different music.

It's kind of a feeling,

it's whatever I'm feeling and thinking.

I try to write words in music, you know,

to kind of match that, so.

That's really cool.

You know, the only songs I work on

were written like 400 years ago,

but at least I'm singing, right?

No, that's true.

You know, as long as you're singing.

Speaking of singing, I don't know if you'd be interested

maybe singing one of my songs with me.

What do you mean?

Well, you know, I've got a song that I wrote that,

you know, when I recorded, what I've got so far,

I always thought this would be

a perfect male/female duet type of song.

And it's not like anything you've heard yet.

It's not a hard rock, it's not an ac/dc song or anything.

But I just think it's, I don't know,

just a kind of a song that would sound good

with a male/female voice.

I'm confused.

Well, what I do is, I'd send you the song,

I'll text it to you, or email, whatever,

and I'll send you the lyrics and you can listen to the song

and come up with like a Harmony part

or something that you'd sing along with me.

And once you're comfortable with it, let me know.

We can get together and you can give it a try,

and we'll try singing it together.

Yeah, I can try it. That sounds good.

So do you suppose your computer's done updating yet?

Well, yeah, I would guess so.

This was a pretty easy fix I gotta admit.

Usually I've gotta go to all the trouble

of turning 'em off and on before they work.

Oh, right, that always works, right?

That always works. Yeah.

And that's the secret of my trade, you know?

It's easier than singing 400 dear old church songs, right?

True.

Yeah, are you gonna go in the church center

or are you gonna head home?