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The first line came from Marlo on The Wire
“You want it one way, but it’s the other way.”
So I wrote the whole song like a car that keeps driving past every warning sign.
No big impact. We’re just ignoring all the signs on purpose.
And that’s why I couldn’t finish it for three years lmao taken in New Orleans, Louisiana by @batari_lo
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This song took a while to come together
That Elijah Wood line from this scene in The Faculty inspired most of the song
“I don’t think a person should run unless he’s being chased”
I wrote this around the time a category one hurricane hit the city really late in hurricane season
I spent most of that day outside enjoying the wind taken in New Orleans, Louisiana by @batari_lo
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I honestly couldn’t think of a movie scene at first
I love that “You don’t get to tell me what to do ever again” line from this scene
American Beauty reminds me of when I first became a cinephile fr
The use of color and camera movement in this movie is amazing
Then I remembered where I was when I wrote this song
I wrote it in a McDonald’s drive-thru 
It was during a shift change in 2020
I was doing a food delivery 
It took a while to finish that order
The writing was inspired by Possum Kingdom by The Toadies
But if it was written over a funky bass line taken in New Orleans, Louisiana by @batari_lo
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