What makes an excellent lyric to you?

It was robust once we got in along. we have a tendency to started recording, and that i simply same, "We haven't got it." [The album] wasn't a bit of labor however. we have a tendency to did not have any songs by [Union Station songwriter] parliamentarian Lee Castleman, and he'd been our main course for songs for the last fifteen years. I known as him, and he same, "I'm dry. i am going to the places I accustomed once I was heartsick, and that i simply cannot connect." thus I drove to his house, and he wished Maine to inform him what was occurring with Maine. once I walked in, he told Maine he had a melody. i might been surfing a dark time in person, and that we talked regarding it. He herbaceous plant the melody; it had been simply attractive. thus I braised a few grilled cheese sandwiches and that we simply talked. He known as Maine later that night and told Maine the title: "Paper airplane"

paper airplane

That's currently the album title, and also the initial song. You over up choosing songs by variety of various songwriters. Is there a topic that ties all of them together?

The songs ar an effort. [They represent] a attempting time that you are within the middle of. you do not acumen long it's going to be, however you recognize at some purpose it's to finish. it had been arduous singing plenty of those songs. however if i am not truthful, then i am wasting everybody's time, and my own. I've continuously been lyrically targeted. that is my head space; that is what keeps Maine up in the dead of night.

What makes an excellent lyric to you?

I don't grasp till I hear it. i am going with one thing I actually have to mention -- I will not be happy unless I say those words. Then we glance back and see however things match along. generating the song, the that means of the words can amendment, and it is not Maine attempting to vary them. it is a terribly romantic chase.

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