First we wrote the video up there ^

Then this happened:

Then we scrapped the whole thing and started from scratch…

Basically, it’s been a tricky month in exitproject-song-writing-land.  We’re tackling a major subject and it’s causing mini rifts in where each of us wants the song to go…  We both care a LOT about how this one turns out, it’s important, so we’re both sensitive about every little decision that’s being made.

One of the issues was that the NB thought the chorus was too repetitive – but I wanted the melody and lyrics in the chorus to stay ubersimple.  I’ve been daunted by this unwritten chorus for weeks.  I decided the only way to write about something so important was to keep it really simple – anything else would sound cheesy or trite.  So we were at an impasse.  The NB wanted a new chorus and I wouldn’t give up the existing one.

BUT!

Tonight MAJOR progress was made!  I went out to rehearsal and returned to a chorus engineered so triumphantly perfectly gorgeously by the Ninja Butler that I was laughing out loud.

The March song is right on track now and we’re both relieved and glow-y… woop!

And Exitproject said, ‘Let them hear cake.’

Or something.

But the high point of the evening actually came when we were arguing about the chorus.  We were passive aggressively discussing if the piano should be syncopated or straight.  But our heated debate evaporated when we heard some birds tweeting in the background of the vocal track.

GENIUS!  You can just about hear the birds tweeting here:

Birds tweeting in the background 'Daylight' (4159)

(it’s right at the end of the clip – you’ll have to crank the volume to hear it.)  It makes me EXTREMELY happy…

The February track is coming along, people!  Feeling the burn a little, but I think that’s part of the reason we’re doing the one song per month thing.  Come rain or come shine, February’s track is just around the corner.