When continuing writing songs that you started years ago, how do you know what to put next?
first i try to understand the entire context for when the song was first written. then i write something based on that. sometimes you can get additional interesting information. i did this with "school". i wrote the first 8 or 12 bars in 2010, and then in 2013 when finishing it, i ended up putting some much more specific details in the outtro which might not have otherwise come out. The original song in 2010 was inspired after having a conversation with someone who was trying to convince me that i was wrong for not pursuing a college education