Dream for a Reason Track

[size= 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap]A♭: One of my favorite albums is [/size][size= 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap]No Other[/size][size= 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap] because of how deeply country it is, but at the same time deeply fucked up and decadent and off putting and beautiful, filled with strings and synth and slide guitar and choirs while at the same time there’s one man quietly having a mental breakdown at the center. [/size]





[size= 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap]She used to be a real person, but in the intervening years she’s become more of a symbol than anything else. Of what, I have no idea, but a symbol nonetheless. I wrote it as one solid block of text and parsed everything out by recording myself singing the paragraph and separating the lines out based on when I needed to take a breath in the original recording, and based what ultimately became the vocal line on the melody I improvised for that recording. Improvisation as a writing tool sharpened to a somewhat cohesive whole.[/size]





[size= 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap]‘Sometimes there’s a price you pay for going out to far’ might be one of the single truest lines ever written[/size]