So over the years, a lot of people have asked me to sort of describe my song writing process from beginning to end. How long does it take, where do you write, what are the circumstances, do you start with music, do you start with lyrics, and my answer is always that it happens differently every time, and that's why I'm still so in love with song writing. So what I've done here is shown you three different examples of the beginning stages of these songs and how they each started, different ways. So I'll explain them to you and maybe that will help you understand kind of how I put songs togetherI sent this voice memo to Ryan Tedder because I'd always wanted to work with him, and finally we scheduled some studio time. So I always wanna be prepared. I wanted to send him the idea that I was working on before we went into the studio just in case he wrote back and said I can't stand that, I wanna work on something else, think of something else. So I just sat down with the piano, put my phone on top of the piano and just kind of explained to him where I wanted to go with the song, how I saw the melody sitting in and we ended up recording the song the next day and it ended up being on the record called I Know Places. So this was the voice memo I sent to him the night before we ended up finishing the songOkay so this is kind of this rough idea thing:Uh-uh-uh-oh, oh-oh-oh-iOh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-iOh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-i-i-iNa na na na waiting at the back doorThey're around and the vultures come aroundAnd you know that they [?] they won't usSay what they want 'bout, say what they want 'bout usAnd you come and sing [?] andI would not think about it but I'm not doneEvery know that a thing or two about it, thing or two about it, ICause they got the cages, they got the boxesAnd gunsThey are the hunters we are the foxesAnd we runBaby, I know places we won't be foundAnd they'll be chasing their tails trying to track us downCause I, I know places we can hideI know places, I know placesUh-uh-uh-i, uh-uh-uh-i, oh-oh-i, uh-uh-uh-i, no placesOr whatever I don't know, but that's basically just like a dark, really dark, lyric like bridge thing and it's about like everyone is trying to get into and ruin a love or whatever and it's like you just, whatever, you know, and the chorus would just go to that major and just be like ooh chorus. So I hope you like it, it wouldn't be a piano thing
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