Rajko talks a little about the inspiration for one of the songs from his newly completed Acoustic Album...


The 'Last Dance'

This is a song that I wrote on what is still the saddest day of my life so far - the day I broke-up with my first true love. It sounds pretty cheesy and everyone goes through break-ups, but as an innocent 22year old who'd never experienced love or relationships, it was painfully hard for me. Having not yet experienced death of a loved one either, I truly remember thinking that day that I understood how death must feel because I felt like I'd lost someone from my life – and I guess I had.

The music for the song was directly inspired by Beethoven's 'moonlight sonata', which is the music that was playing in the CD player when we broke up. It was the music playing the minutes during which we stood there in silence and held each other for the last time, having decided we were ending the relationship the night before. Waking up that morning I felt so terribly hollow. So weak and hollow and defeated that I was unable to do much more than cry as we swayed and shuffled in a strange last dance. And then after she'd gone, I was just stood there alone in her room...a room 'all filled by her' her pictures, her belongings, her smell, memories...and I realised it was the last time I'd see/smell/feel any of it. I was saying goodbye to a big piece of my life and knowing I had to move on. But it was so hard, and it made me understand for the first time in my life why some people cannot walk away from relationships that are clearly not working - because when you've given so much of yourself, its just so hard to call it quits and give up on something.


Last Dance was recorded live in Solvang, California. It was the first take of the first song I played in the recording studio that day, but it captured a feeling and a memory, and that's all I wanted. The song is number 13 on my acoustic album 'Poor as a Church Mouse'.