Sometimes I knock one out in a night and sometimes it takes me years before I’ve got something I like out of an idea. Words are a particularly thorny part for me. Imagine trying to tell a story. Now make it fit in a rhythm and a melody, and possibly make sure some of the words rhyme.  Ambiguity is often my best friend. An impressive vocabulary is often Allen’s.

And that’s before the rest of the band gets their hands on it.

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