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Artistic types go through “phases.”

Picasso is the most famous example. He had his Classical Period, then his Blue Period, then his Red Period, and then several others whose names I have forgotten since my second-grade art class.

I consider writing a sort of art. You do your best to make it pretty, it takes obnoxious amounts of time, and people who do it for a living are generally broke. I believe that that’s all the qualifiers which one needs to declare something “art.”

In any case, a few weeks ago, I entered what history will remember as my songwriting phase. History won’t rem...