I recorded several takes that sounded much better vocally, but in the end, none had the feel that the first take I recorded in mi phone. And David Byrne famously said “The better a singers voice the harder it is to believe what he’s saying.”
The lyrics for the song were taken verbatim from an email I received two days ago. I made a self-imposed rule that I could not change a word, and in a way that made it easier. The line “and thus have no record of the conversation” breaks the pattern: the ear is expecting to go back to the D chord but I had to hang on the Bb for an extra bar to get that line out. The Bb chord itself is not technically in the key which is why it sticks out doubly.
I intended the music and words to contradict each other, the lyrics being somewhat depressing and down while the melody goes up up up, ending on this really happy chord with a really sad lyrical bottom. That’s what I was trying to do.
Tags: chord theory
