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Restraint: 3. Letter I

This song wrote itself pretty quickly because I put a lot of constraints on it. I wanted it to be just piano and vocal. I wanted to use nothing but major chords, and I wanted the bass line to move mostly in thirds. I intended it to be something of an interlude, and it fulfills that purpose very well.

I didn't realize I'd be making two versions of this song till I wrote the lyrics. This first letter is written from the perspective of someone who let a friendship fall by the way side. As I worked on more songs for the album, I thought, "What if this letter became a correspondence?"

I originally planned a number of letters throughout the album, but I could only squeeze in a single reply (with which I'll deal in a later entry.)

-- Posted: 2009-06-08 05:35:00