This is such a pleasant surprise to see how many of you could see what I intended and your enjoyment of the song!

TUNEMONGER, thank you very much! Yes, the eerie mood is precisely what I intended. It began with experimenting with the first few chords, then I knew just what the song would be about.

LAURENT, Twice??? Wow, thank you! I very much appreciate your insight. I hadn't thought about the slight detachment yet I do remember keeping the emotion of the situation somewhat apart to get through calmly. You picked up on that. The ending guitar, though, is the acknowledgment that you can't keep those feelings away successfully...they eventually amplify!

K-DUB, You picked up on it, too, and why we write the songs that we do. Thank you much!

DC RON, yep, the vocalist is superb. That's David Luke. He very unexpectedly really picked up the emotion of the song I never could have done. It's just in the last few days I remixed it. I have learned a lot in the last five years of mixing/mastering my songs because I'm too much of a cheapskate to pay for producers...out of necessity. But I'm very curious about how things work. My first attempts were muddy with too much reverb.

MARTY, Thank you very much! Always wonderful to see correspondence from you! Yep, makes perfect sense. The melody always comes to me first. Sometimes I have to wait for the melody to tell me what it's about, even what its name is. After coming up with the first few chords, I knew what the song would be about. The chords progressed naturally to follow the experience. To me, the melody is the emotion that fills the spaces between the words. Some of the melodies I've had didn't let me know until six months, a year, even 20 years, later of what their name was and what the story was about. Because my songs are like a travelogue of my life, I write clearly what life is about and that doesn't follow gender roles and society's expectations. Sometimes my songs are about emotions and insecurities people don't want to admit. But then, that's what we do as artists, songwriters, and music makers!

MARIO, You've done some pretty darned brilliant things yourself. Thank you!

SCOTT, Yep, that was most definitely the aim. Bingo! Music and songs have to reflect what the story is about.

John