Number two is in the bag! I think I'm going to come back and make a better demo, but in the meantime have what was essentially improvised on the spot.

NOTE: I said yesterday I was too much of a coward to make music about myself, and that phrase in my songwriting is really coming to a middle. This is me portraying a character, and events portrayed have no connection to real life.

Something I often struggle with (or at least want to get better about) is through-composing, that is, just writing a song straight through. Not necessarily a bad thing, but sometimes it makes a better song to make a target and then shoot for it rather than just barreling straight through. I ended up writing the second verse first, then the third, then the first, then deciding to repeat the first for last.

I got kind of cute with the third verse and got to clever for my own good. This is another problem that I have, YOLOing some really out there meter in the lyric writing phase and making it a problem for future me. And then future me shows up.

Another thing I want to try to steer away from is "Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Bridge Chorus Done!". Of course I guess I did repeating a verse and it was 100% because the song didn't feel long enough but I think going from the big lesson to the single lesson really works here.

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