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Wow, was this hard to write!  Michael gave it to me as a cold lyric, and I went months - maybe a couple years, I'm not sure - trying to write a melody to it.

Michael told me he wanted it to sound a little like Aerosmith's "Dream On".  I came up with the guitar motif that I thought did the job perfectly.  The verse melody then was fairly easy to write based on the chord progression.  

But the chorus - that was hard!  I would write one, like it, but then start thinking I could do better.  Then one day I decided to include them all!  That's why you hear so many variations on the "Do I dare" hook.

Michael did a fantastic job of capturing the experience of depression.  

The song was produced and performed by Bryce Gullett.