Tuesday, August 3, 2021

"I Don't Wanna Go Home"

Last night, I was thinking about "I Don't Wanna Go Home," specifically a line at the end of the first verse:  "You should have stayed on the outside (Lookin' in)."  As the parentheses indicate, the "lookin' in" is sung by a different voice.  Because there are two different vocal parts here, there's a sense of separation (which the narrator is retrospectively wishing for).

Sunday, August 1, 2021

"Breakdown"

Last week, I figured out the chords for "Breakdown."  I think they're something like:
|: A major | G major | F major | A major :|
|: D minor | C major | A major :|
|: G major | A major :|
And during the guitar solo and the coda:
|: A major | G major | A major :|
Nominally, this is in A major, but aside from A major itself, all of these chords have at least one accidental.  To some degree, these accidentals indicate the sentiments in the song:  "I breakdown in the middle and lose my thread... Nothing I try to do can work the same way."