Two Grey Rooms is about a love story between two men, where the spurned lover, twenty years after their separation, rents "two grey rooms" with windows overlooking the route taken by his former lover when he goes to work, just to watch him "walk by", from afar.

Joni Mitchell had composed the melody in the early 1980s, but did no find then any lyrics that could fit the music's mood. She recorded a first version in 1983 with her solo voice vocalizing on the score, during a recording session for the album Wild Things Run Fast, and the "demo" remained stowed in the drawers. This wonder of a song without words only appeared in 2003 on The Complete Geffen Recording album. It wasn't until almost a decade later, when Joni Mitchell recorded Night Ride Home, that the intimate story of this man close to Fassbinder became obvious to the musician, inspiring her the words for what would become eventually Two Grey Rooms.

To me, it would have taken a certain amount of blindness, deafness and amnesia not to be struck by the resemblance between certain issues raised in the story of Two Grey Rooms and part of my own story with this boy in my art school. The impossibility of our relationship combined to the loss and pain during our moments of rupture, pushed me to go and wait for him, late every Sunday night when he returned to Paris from the country at the end of the weekend. Me hiding under a porch and pondering the floor of the building where he lived from the fronting sidewalk, scrutinizing his windows just in the hope of seeing him “Walk by” with "His shirt undone"...

In the case of the story told by Two Grey Rooms in particular, the correspondance between Joni Mitchell's writings and music and my own feelings (and the situations which emotionally submerged me and stormed my life in those days), proved to be extraordinarily accurate. Even though I always felt that this singularity was certainly not unique to me.