The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level.
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A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear it that way. I'm not a songwriter.
We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.
We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.
I find so many songwriters today are missing an element... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.
In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.
Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.