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. (written Feb 16, 1981)
I was on the verge of a musical writer's block that would
last from early '81 till about July of 1987. I didn't stop writing,
per se, but I wrote fewer songs than before, and most of them
were more calculated, less genuinely inspired than the stuff
I've done before or since. A dark period, creatively.
This is probably one of the first of those "manufactured"
songs (though honors for my first abrogation of creative
duty must go to "Isn't Anybody There", coming up next).
The chorus was put together out of two musical phrases that had
been lying around for some time, and the verse was musically
a fairly wooden attempt to invoke the spirit of "She Don't
Know Why".
Lyrically, I have nothing to say. It's a fake song about a fake
relationship, and was written just to write something.
Needing a riff, we took a non-recorded Vitus song (called "In
Her Eyes"? - have to check), and he did it as a flute instrumental
for the opening and the middle part.
My girlfriend at the time was Gwynne Kahn, who reminded me
after the fact that her grandfather had written the original
"It Had To Be You". Interesting . . .
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