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Lou Hayter “Wish You Were Mine”

I think a lot of the time the music tells a lyricist what the words should be, in the sense that it’s like putting subtitles on the abstract content of the chords and melodies. “Wish You Were Mine” is a good example in that you’d have to be very contrary to make this something other than a crush song. Everything about the composition and arrangement is powerful current pulling towards that conclusion; you’d need a lot of strength to push against it. You could end up with something interesting that way, sure, but in giving in to that feeling – in pushing everything about the song towards this emotional extreme – Lou Hayter has created something incredibly satisfying and effective. It’s a song with a flawless internal logic, in which everything always adds up to this attraction, and the tinge of sadness in the track comes from being worried that this logic isn’t mutually agreed upon.

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