“Im thinking about how/people fall in love in mysterious ways
Maybe its all part of a plan/And I’ll just keep on making the same mistakes
Hoping that you’ll understand….”

© Sheeran/Wadge, “Thinking Out Loud” from the album “X”, 2014

Well, this is quite an old one which has a bit of a story to it. When I first wrote No Getting Over You, back in 2014, I used a Native Instruments Kontakt instrument/sampled pattern from a pack called Strummed Acoustic to get the ideas in place for the song, to help work out the arrangement.

Those chords and that pattern did not survive to see the finished track. That was changed dramatically and ended up being much more manually played rather than using Kontakt for the final version, with a Taylor GS Mini being the main instrument, one that I had bought in California a year before when visiting a relative for a 60th birthday party (a very very long story).

This particular pattern though, led to another track being generated, another set of lyrics being written around it with a new topline. And, as always with the best of intentions, I thought…. yeah, I’ll come back to that one day and finish it off.…

Twelve years later…. I was digging around in an A4 binder of rough notes today and thought that I ought to do something with it. So, it has been added to the KOAS roster of tracks and while I may well resurrect the original concept for this evening there are two versions of it that have been generated by Suno, which are available at https://suno.com/song/397f41ee-2729-4ecd-9fe5-8e6a02f6998a this link here..

So far as the story of the lyrics is concerned; yes, it is related to No Getting Over You, like a cousin once removed, if I may be so bold. It was inspired by one of the same women of that song, the one referred to in the third verse. As so many love songs are, it is very much unrequited, about giving and not getting in return and that there are always obstacles in the way to the path of true, meaningful love. As I’ve discussed where the other song is concerned, there is an awful lot of water under that bridge now and I’ve learned a lot in the intervening time, LOLZ.

But today, while I’m getting used to the new studio, I thought it a good opportunity to dig this one out and put a placeholder version out via Suno to see what it could do with it and the flamenco feel was about the best way that I could describe it to the machine… and I dont think its turned out too bad. Im not sure that the Suno cut is going to be the definitive version, but we shall have to wait and see. There are an awful lot of others in the queue in front of it for real recording time…

What Kind Of Man
/verse 1
You gave your love to me
(but you didnt mean it)
What kind of man would I be
(If I couldnt see it)

Hours led to days and weeks when I sensed that it wasnt true
(and theres more to the eye than your heart has denied) In the space between me and you…

I couldnt make you listen
To all the things I tried to say to you.

/Verse 2
I came to you ‘cross the sea
(but you didnt feel it)
Youve gone and changed the man in me
(though you didnt mean it)
Miles and mountains and oceans that always stood between me and you
(and I see you at night in the trees and the stars and sometimes in a waning moon)

But you dont want to listen
To all the things that I’d said to you…

/Verse 3
Did you give any love to me?
(Or did you take what you needed?)
I listened to your body speak
(You didnt want me to hear it)
Nights turned to hours under my fingers when they felt for you
(and your body supplied what your heart then denied and stopped this one and one becoming two)
But I would only listen….. To the words I ever wanted to…

© Words and music by Steve McCarthy-Hunt, 2014.
© Words by Steve McCarthy-Hunt, music by Suno AI, 2025.