This one was a struggle in some ways. Used John Ashbery’s"Self-Portrait in Convex Mirror” as a bank to pull from when I got stuck. It’s the chord movement that came first and then I tried to fit with the G in there, then lyrically it didn’t fit, had to cut the G. G comes back in the chorus though, which felt right in the end. Trying to write choruses lately. This one feels a bit plopped in, but that’s okay. Sometimes it needs to plop.
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