Alternatively, you can commit to your savage words and wound people for so long as they care to remember that your song exists. Sometimes, that writing is just experience, just ephemeral. Unfortunately, you sometimes learn this through trial and error. As a writer, you learn the boundaries of what you can and can’t say about the people around you. I resigned myself to burying “Like A Lady” there is no song that is worth more than he is, no matter how I felt when I was writing it. I once tried to play it for Mike, and couldn’t get past the first lines because of the utterly crushed look on his face. I think Adam thought I was crazy for suggesting we introduce a new song in the home stretch of production (rightly so), and FACTOR wouldn’t allow me to deliver any less than the number of songs I had outlined in my grant application or else repay a huge chunk of my grant, so Little Sway was released with all originally proposed songs intact, and without “Like A Lady”. At that time, there were a few songs on Little Sway that I wasn’t in love with, and I wanted to cut or replace them. I brought this song to Adam Rideout-Arkell when we were recording Little Sway, which means that this tune was written in the summer of 2013.

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