I wanted to write a song that encoded some of the feelings and details of this year, mainly to help Wynn remember them when he was older. But as usual I can’t find any rhymes to go with the first idea, and then it turns out that I didn’t really have any feelings or details to record, so the process of squeezing out the lines is more like a fictional process of creating false memories which are distant cousins of the truth. I find it much easier to write songs which are only about imaginary things, like yesterday’s which I just wrote down without really taking my pen off the paper. Reality and Rhymes, that could be a new edition of Dungeons and Dragons, or Tunnels and Trolls.
