It's really satisfying how the wild rhythms of the verse converge for the more straightforward chorus. The guitars are huge, sometimes to the extent that the vocals feel overwhelmed, but that kinda suits the song and certainly helps it pack a punch.

Like with all my other shadows, I wish I’d given myself a little more time to do this, it could really use a proper outro and maybe a bridge or something and some more variation in the arrangement as it goes along, and of course I would have liked to play around with the tones and the mix a bit more. I’m also not happy with the way I delivered “cone on my neck,” my rhythm was off, but I had to go with basically my first take of everything. I think what I have going on in the verse is the drums in 4/4, the bassline in 3/4, and the guitars/music box synths/vocals in 6/8, and I cribbed the idea from “Touch and Go” of the skittery verse resolving to the more straight-ahead chorus. There are a few tweaks I want to make but overall I’m pleased with the lyrics for the amount of time I spent on them, sometimes there’s something to be said for just writing as fast as possible. (Although sometimes it doesn’t really work out.) I don’t typically go music-first and words-later unless I’m collaborating, I usually write both as I go along, but in this case I built up the verse track first and then figured out afterwards what lyrics would work in there.