Edlyn Dcruz is the best person on the planet. I have never met anyone as beautiful, kind, and warm as her. Before meeting Edlyn, I had given up on human beings, for polluting the planet, hurting animals, and causing so much harm and hurt. But when I met Edlyn, I found one person who in my opinion was a genuinely good human being. She is so good, that she would cause herself harm, but wouldn’t let the other person get hurt. She would take all the hurt and pain on herself and make sure the other person was safe and sound. Unintentionally she has hurt a lot of people. Her closest friends and family know exactly how horrible Edlyn can be. Cause at the end of the day, she is human. She has her flaws and she screws up many a time. But her heart is always in the right place. She has never lost her path from being a good human being. Hence, I deem Edlyn Dcruz as the best person on the planet.
Edlyn named me ‘Cuckoo’ because I was a rebel, I would challenge every norm set by society. She said I’m ridiculous and hence began calling me ‘Cuckoo’. I’m fine with people calling me anything. And since she named me ‘Cuckoo’, I wanted to call her something too. At the time we weren’t great friends, but she had a round face like a 'plum' and she looked like she was extremely soft, so I named her ‘Plum’. We became the best of friends thereafter because Edlyn loved the kind of human being I was. She said, “You’re the only guy who didn’t hit on me even when we were alone and you had all the opportunity.” For me, Edlyn was this completely honest, transparent, kind, and warm human being, who genuinely cared about people. And that simply fascinated me. I hadn’t met a human being who was so selfless and giving, and not self-centered. I know it’s idiotic to be that way, cause the world is too cruel to be this way, but Edlyn has a lot of guardian angels, so that must have shaped her into being who she is.
I had a lot of feelings for Edlyn, I did fall in love with her, but our natures were so opposite, our compatibility was poles apart. Even though we could hang around each other for hours and days, eventually, she would exhaust me, because my pace of living is extremely slow. Edlyn on the other hand is a hyperactive bunny who will make 10,000 errands in a day. So, writing a song for her had crossed my mind, and when one day she asked me if I could write a song for her, I said, yes immediately. She named the song ‘Cuckoo To Plum’. She asked me to write whatever I would like to say to her. And that’s exactly what I did. I think I’ve written some of the best lines in this song, and if you meet Edlyn, you will see how well the lines are written. I took a whole year to write Cuckoo To Plum’. And Edlyn is extremely bad with patience, and I tormented her the whole year by not revealing any lines to her. I made the call of not pursuing the relationship because I didn’t want to end up being together and hating her. I knew Edlyn was too much for me to handle all alone. Like Yellowcard’s Only One, she was my only one, who I had to let go cause we were incompatible with each other’s fundamental natures.
I had a very positive relationship with Edlyn, and I make a point to only write the good things in songs, because the harsh feedback is a closed room conversation between two people, not for the world to hear. Considering the rollercoaster ride that Edlyn is, I was still able to muster the best lines for this adorable person. And I don’t know how you feel about the music, but even though ‘Cuckoo To Plum’ is a very positive song and I wrote it for Edlyn, when I was writing the music for this song in 2017, I was in a completely different zone. I had adopted a stray dog in 2015, and he was being a menace to the whole building by howling the whole day. The RWA had forced me to get rid of my dog. Doing this is illegal, but I had no idea about it then. I had kept my dog, Keanu, at my aunt’s place for 3 months, till everyone would settle down. And I think, all the rage, hate, grief, and injustice I felt in those 3 months got sucked into ‘Cuckoo To Plum’. So for me, Cuckoo to Plum always reminds me of missing Keanu. I brought him back as soon as I could. And the RWA harassed me even after. But when I sent them a copy of the Pet Circular, they realized how they had fucked up and apologized to me.
