This was a little pop nugget in the middle of the first half of the album to not make it too dark, I wanted it to feel a bit romantic in the delivery. What I’m trying to say there is that you can try to accept your situation, time will pass and that’ll be that, or you can do what you want to do or be who you want to be if you don’t have that attitude of ‘it is what it is’. I came up with phrases like ‘it is what it is until it was what it was’. It was a test for me to do something catchy but still sounded exciting. It was also meant to have modern production flourishes but that could have been a song in the sixties or the seventies. That’s a classic songwriting trope, I think. I wanted there to be more organic instruments, I played acoustic guitar on it, I wanted it to have very straight-forward lyrics basically saying ‘be who you want to be, don’t let other people get you down’. Whenever I try to remember stuff I never write it down, I put it in my phone. Then I tried to write throw-back lyrics, the opening line was ‘Think I might forget it, gonna write it down’, that was like something from another era. And I thought ‘that could be a title of a song from 1963 or the late fifties’, I think it’s evocative in that way. A reference to ‘Mother of Pearl’ by Roxy Music, which is one of my favourite songs of all time. Something simple, with three words, like ‘sister of pearl’. It’s one of those things when a turn of phrase pops into your head. ”I just wanted there to be a throw-back, old-school pop song, sort of an exercise trying to write one.
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