Widdershins from 18/19 by RJT

I wrote this when I was eighteen, sometime in the winter of 1998. Widdershins is a Scottish word, and as much as I would like to tell you I learned it from my Scottish grandmother, I first saw it used in a British horror comic. It literally means “contrary to the direction of the sun” and denotes bad luck. For example, "walking widdershins"--i.e. counterclockwise-- in a graveyard would disturb the spirits buried there. Once I learned the word and thought about writing a song with it, very quickly the idea that “that’s the way love goes” attached itself. From there the verse lyrics tumbled out fairly easily. I think a sense of bad luck permeated a lot of my ideas of romance at the time, and this song captures that sentiment fairly well.