00:00 The song I want to stay kind of started just with...
00:02 Sort of vibe, obviously going to be a bit of a band.
00:13 Yeah, I remember that song, the chorus melody was driving me nuts.
00:20 Because you had that part and I had the chorus and that melody I didn't know what to sing there.
00:26 I kept waking up every day with that.
00:32 I didn't know what to sing there, you know, it took forever.
00:45 But I think some of the stuff like the lyrics is what we probably spent the most time on,
00:49 isn't it?
00:49 We sat for hours here.
00:51 I mean, lyrics are important.
00:55 Mind you, when I was a kid growing up, I didn't know what Ian Gillan was singing,
01:01 you know, Highway Star, but it just sounded great.
01:04 So sometimes the lyrics just have to sound good.
01:08 But I think if you dig deeper, you want them to mean something.
01:10 And they've got to sing good as well, phonetically.
01:14 You know, some words just don't sing.
01:16 And when people say the lyrics are that, when a singer says this song has got great lyrics,
01:20 they probably mean they can really get their voice around it and it just makes it easy.
01:26 That's a great point.
01:27 It is twofold because you have lyrics in a story that reads well.
01:32 So, you know, you read it.
01:34 However, how it sings is really a big part of why a lyric gets written in a certain way.
01:41 It's because it sings great songs, you know, even Sinatra and all that, man, my way.
01:46 Lots of vowels and stuff like that and stuff you can get, you know.
01:49 And also when we're writing, you know, with that, say, I want to stay.
01:53 And you're sort of searching, you've got the chords, you can hear the melody.
01:58 And then you know, I want to stay.
02:00 And for some reason, you come up with a title and then you have to work around that
02:05 and kind of make it make sense, you know, because that,
02:08 what comes to you is often what you stick with, you know, and you write a song around that.
02:15 Or the great thing about Abba's I Want to Bounce Off is, you know,
02:18 Richie will say, oh, I want to stay.
02:20 What was that you sang there?
02:21 Oh, okay, that sounded good.
02:23 You know, just keep that and work around it.
02:25 Well, that happened in, remember, Solar Fire.
02:28 Yeah.
02:29 And I remember you sitting there and saying, oh, that sounds,
02:32 because I had a rough sketch of a vocal on there and he said, oh, Solar Fire.
02:37 That's interesting.
02:38 And I said, what would you come up with that?
02:40 And you actually said, oh, I thought that's what you were saying.
02:43 And I'm like, no, but I could be saying that.
02:46 What does it mean?
02:46 You're sort of scatting and then now and again, you know,
02:50 and then so how do you make it sounds great?
02:53 You know that, whatever.
02:56 That's a great, really strong title or something.
02:58 All right, how do you make sense of that?
03:01 Yeah.
03:02 So then the song was about, I thought, well, make it about something that's burning hot,
03:06 glowing brightly, you know, when you're in the prime of your life, you're on stage and you're,
03:11 you know, you're having a great time in your life, really just when you're at your peak,
03:16 you know, Solar Fire, you're burning, you know, you're burning.
03:19 That was the spirit of that song.
03:21 Yeah, that's great.
03:22 And so he heard something.
03:23 I was just hearing the melody and the rhythm and he actually heard a lyric that I wasn't even saying.
03:29 But then once we established that, we wrote a song around it.
03:32 So these songs come in all different ways.
03:35 Yeah, they just seem to be, you sort of pull them out of the air, you know,
03:38 they sort of, they just come to you.
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