I like where this is going. I like what we're building here tonight. I just had one of those stressful days. Just one of those days where you think to yourself, am I an asshole? Or am I really just smarter than everybody else? You know what I mean? Cause plenty of assholes really do think they're smarter than everyone else, and they aren't. That's the problem. Emotionally, there's no real identification as to whether you're right or not. There's a lot of assholes running around like, proud as punch. I had one of those days where I was like, I don't believe anyone is as smart as I am today. Stupid people around.
But I guess what music does for you sometimes, you have a bad day, you show up, and then all of a sudden you kind of forget. I'm forgetting. I like it. Blood pressure back down to acceptable levels. I was so aggravated, for some reason, I had to go to the doctor because I had stool in my urine. I've never had that before. Something really is wrong with me.
Anyway it's nice to see you. I'm coming back. Feeling great. You're making me forget. You don't know, it takes a lot to steer this damn ship.
[Plays "Simmering"]
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You guys having a good time so far? [Audience cheers] I'm so manic lately that when the lights go out I think everybody left. So when the lights go back on, I think, okay, they're still here. I wish I was 23 again when I just thought I was the shit. That'd be fun. To be 23 again and think I was the best at everything. Now I'm playing, I feel like I'm holding on every second.
This is a song that I made the track for first. That's not how I usually write songs. And there was something about it that seemed really eerie, and plasticky, and it felt like an Ikea catalog, and it was like nothing I'd ever done before. And it reminded me, for some reason I just started singing on it, "I think I wanna go home," is what I was singing on it.
And before I knew it, I was walking around the studio with a microphone in my hand and -- it's very unlike me to do these moves, because I usually have a guitar in my hand. But I was doing, like, you know like this thing? Like I'm a smart rapper? This thing? [Mimes rapping] Look at my head. Look at my head as I rap. I rap with my two fingers, from my head to you. And I'm walking around the studio: [sings] "I refuse to believe!" So when you hear that record, that's me walking around the studio like [mimes rapping]. It makes a nice little solo number.
[Plays "Home Life"]
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Let's go back to 1984 when I wrote this song. [Plays "Only Heart"]