how was the writing process for "i'm best friends with my own front door"?
very fast. i had just snapped and said 'i'm going to do these music videos in 2 weeks even though i know it always takes 10 weeks no matter how hard i try to make it 2 weeks or even 4 weeks, but now i'm desperate, it's gonna be 2 weeks or die trying', and so there was no time to waste. and on the selection, i seemed to hate everything (as usual), so because the time was so limited, part of my brain just said 'what song do you wish you could do' (like one that doesn't exist yet), and the first 2 lines wrote themself. So that was the starting point, then i began writing it, and i think after the whole day i still really had barely even wrapped up the first 2 stanzas. not good, because there's only 14 days to do the whole process, ..... write, record everything, all everything, video, ..... entire everything. So i took a panic walk and slapped myself into shape and realized if i can't finish this in the next 4 hours then i'm off the bus pretty much. So basically the first thing that was written after the switch into panic mode was the 'i saw the sign' bit. i think it's evident that this wouldn't have made it into the song if i had had time to think. but in fact, it's this line that is the gateway to the entire mindset of the rest of the song. it sends it off a sort of cliff, and a series of strange things unfold, and due to momentum, when we finally land at the 'outchorus' ('do everything'.... etc), the real-world emotion of the actual scenario seems to realize itself more fully and genuinely, and the song is definitely about itself, as you can see the victory set in towards the end, and yet also admitting how it had seemed like the end of the world just moments ago which i narrowly escaped