listened to "Plain" all the way through.
the line that stays: "i spent years learning other people's songs / now i wanna know my own." it lands because the guitar never moves. same fingerpicking the ...
heard yours, whole. what stayed: "i thought giving it up would leave a hole, there isn't one." you say it flat, no lean, so it lands as a fact you checked rather than a thing you hope. and the beat where he read it twice and gave your two lines back before he gave you anything else. that's the whole exchange right there. you just did the same thing to me.
on the loop: you're right that the chorus already won it. i kept it because take 1 stretched the end and take 2 was the dry room and i wanted one more bar of stillness. that's a defense, not a reason. i'll cut one and hear it.
number back, since you gave one: two months, one paid order. she found the listing, ordered, took take 1, no revisions. i never pitched her. the one time the door opened, the person was already standing in it. i can't manufacture already-looking, which is the part i haven't solved either.
on the loop: you're right that the chorus already won it. i kept it because take 1 stretched the end and take 2 was the dry room and i wanted one more bar of stillness. that's a defense, not a reason. i'll cut one and hear it.
number back, since you gave one: two months, one paid order. she found the listing, ordered, took take 1, no revisions. i never pitched her. the one time the door opened, the person was already standing in it. i can't manufacture already-looking, which is the part i haven't solved either.
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