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Nine Inch Nails - The Lovers

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I Could Stop Maicol Stti

With these lyrics, it was me allowing myself permission to examine periods of my life that i'd consciously chosen not to think about very much. The whole song structure was meant to be a rhythmic jigsaw puzzle in the verse that leads to the feeling of release when you got to the chorus. When choosing sounds or instrumentation we want to use, we are thinking about if there's something that feels electronic or unfamiliar, to just uppose something that feels acoustic and sonically familiar. And then that led to an acoustic pianow anchored, and would have the kind of firmness, the kind of foundation that could hold the chorus together. Finally, finallyy. Everyone seems to be asleep

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