I've noticed that people don't like my simple songs as much as my grandiose ones... I've been told that the simple songs and the non-simple songs sound like they are written by two completely different people. When I actually put music to the songs though, more often than not - my simple songs come out much better than the wordy ones... although one could say - well that's the music not the writing - which may be true. I try to write things simpler, because if I'm left to my own devices you get 2-3 page poems like "I Wonder" or "The Warmth in Those Dying Years". I also think this is funny, because I like this song/poem more than a lot of the things I've written - but I guess when I write it, I'm singing it and whatnot, and you guys can't hear that. The same thing happened with "Sooner or Later" - people were meh on it, but I love it.
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