[verse] 

Let’s start it up ’cause it’s so brilliant

How we light the night up with our sun signs

hey…

hey…

The elements lay nature bare

When you touch me, I’m fire breathing air

[chorus]

I find a lot of things about you

Leave me searching for words to say

To explain what we can do

And I can’t wait

[verse]

I believe it’s time that makes us wait

Curves and edges fill our spaces

hey…

hey…

Force of attraction, course of stars

Bring us together, earth and water

signs…

[chorus and out]

I wrote that when I was checking out career options selling music to publishers. Luckily, I failed at that, or I would have lost the rights

When I moved to New York City in 2002, I was reacquainted with rock. I’d kind of given up on it, or maybe the better way to put it is I fell behind. I heard a lot in electronic music that I dug. Having went through music school in college, I scoffed at rock a bit– at least on the outside. I got to NYC and heard the Strokes and Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs. A friend of mine was in a band that iconoclastically– and unabashedly– played grunge. There was a bit of grunge revival, I felt, at the time with a few lackluster tunes on the radio. Can’t Wait tapped into that, at least as far as some meta organization goes. I thought of it as a loose direction.

The original chord progression altered between G and F and went to Eb in the “hey” parts. It’s a much-used progression, you might call it an aeolian major, with roots in R&B. Madonna and Seal have used it on hits, and it’s common in hip-hop. The movement grabs well because of the inherent major-minor tension.

The chorus was pretty bare, a means to an end mostly. It actually came out differently when I recorded demos. The more demos I recorded the more it seemingly changed. Like I said in the last post, CW wasn’t written with a strong musical hook in mind. So a bunch of crazy musical hats can hang on it. Instead of forcing pegs, I’m going to start at the guitar and wrap the groove around. And the guitar’s main job is to follow the vocals, so this will be top-down tracking. I can’t wait.