I LOVE THIS, totally have these conversations, even at the smallest, most insignificant moments...one step forward and then overthinking. This is a wonderful subject that everyone can relate to and I LOVE the last verse...this calm, melancholy music and repetitive strumming pattern is so effective in making your point. Great listen, thanks for writing this!

I love it --- very intriguing vocal delivery and the record is very vibey in a way that evokes both struggle and ease --- ' complicated while being simple'

Came for the alternate tuning tag, and the guitar work is really lovely. I love how you get a sort of half strum, half picking rhythm out of it. The harmonica was unexpected, but very tasteful

I've been struggling with this a lot recently, and I can't believe it's taken until now to see someone express what you have here. Genuinely helpful, so thank you.

The simple pieces go together like hand in glove, with the lesson squirting out the fingers.

This is less surreal lyrically than some of your other songs, but I quite liked the relatability and concreteness for a change of pace, and the melancholy philosophizing of the lyrics is well suited for the emotional disquiet of your guitar (?) and melodica work here. This song neatly captures a place I think many of us here on FAWM (or any creative person) has unfortunately found themselves from time to time.

and Bowie was pretty right for a long term artist. it is very tempting. I often seem to write my best song first in fawm or to my taste, then think where the hell from here. good capture and a very melancholy feel to the music.

So very true! My agent said my writing was "poetic, almost lyrical" and I had no idea what she meant by that. (Why didn't I ask? Younger and dumber, I guess) So I pondered... Maybe it was the 3 POVs. I kept trying to recreate that until I realized I should take all that poetry/lyrical vibe and start writing songs.

Brilliantly done here!

I really admire the fact that you continue to make music! You are an endless source of ideas and I have a lot of fun diving into it and always discovering pearls that you then record for us!

That's why I hope you don't ever get to the point of not wanting to write anymore because of other people's expectations!

This is an unusually thoughtful song from you! And of course I love your dark and melancholic guitar with the breathy melodica!

I really like the sound of the guitar and melody. You just gotta put the music that's inside you out there and whoever's ears it's meant for will connect with it

i dont know how you continue to come up with such cool guitar parts. thid song addresses some relatable conflicts. i have a friend who could not find an audience for his sings until he had been at it for ten years or so. when he finally wrote a song that people liked, his creativity froze and he has been writing that same song now for forty years. i think the best test for whether or not is any good i when you dont know if its good or bad because its like nothing you ever did before. do there is nothing to masure it by.