Another collaboration with Paul Langford creating the demo, I named this song “Lightness” because it feels like it doesn’t have a care in the world. I know, I know, I lose all rock-and-roll street cred with a song so nice, but even the most fraught musician has to have moments of ease, right?
And frankly, happy music is hard to write. It’s so easy to fall into cliché and sentimentality. While “Lightness” certainly has a lot of sweetness to it, there are also some harmonic twists that, in my opinion, keep it from being mundane or cloying.
Hey, wait a minute… Why am I apologizing for writing a pleasant song?!