Keep this one for your bedtime routine, doctor’s order. This song works best just before bed, when the spell of dreamy indie pop works wonders and in a haze you can be a high schooler who just got broken up with.

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I’ve had some dark days I wanted to tell you
I sat next to the place we saw a child fall
My heart was hurting for the very last day
The smell of september just remains the same

Don’t worry, I will never ask you to write a breakup song. However I do really enjoy the structure of these lyrics, one line sentimental and one line factual. I think it’s a great tool to keep a song from being too heavy and dramatic (unless that’s the look you’re going for…). It makes it sadder, sometimes being too dramatic can have the opposite effect and strip a song of its emotional impact.

You can probably guess what your prompt is going to be…write me a verse using that same emotional/factual method. You’ll see it’s quite fun to try to do pairs, not at all like summer homework I promise…

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