sorry for the pause, writing something:
where is the pretty face you put on for show i think you're hiding that saving grace for no good reason for later i'd hate you more if i didn't watch your every move and i will watch you put on anything you do where is that whimsied smile that you've had for years i heard all about it keeping away your fears i'd like a chance to see what those lips have wrought i think you'd owe me that if you just thought about it and i will watch you do anything you choose and i will wait for you to make your move will it ever come
[…] It’s funny that you can apply any kind of science to songwriting. You spend a lot of years as a songwriter thinking it’s just lightning that strikes you, but there are things you can do to make yourself more of a lightning rod. All This Time When the chorus came in my head I literally walked to the piano and played the entire song in one go and wrote the lyrics. It all happened in 30 minutes. … Effectively the whole song came at once. I was because I was primed. That’s the challenge, you know? You have to be working on songs to have other songs that work. Will It Ever Come? Much like “All This Time,” it came at this point that I was very primed, in the summer of 2000. I wrote a lot of what are still my favorite songs at that time … songs that I really still play very frequently. And this one was kindof in the middle, and it just got ignored. It was at the very beginning of Crushing Krisis and I blogged the lyrics. [Ed note: Literally; I wrote them out in nine minutes in the Blogger window. They were my 81st post.] […]