Fun and Games

The song is built around an Am-C-G-Am chord progression. Mike Connell said it "was pretty much just another failed relationship song" that took influence from older bands such as the Byrds and Big Star to more contemporary artists including Echo & the Bunnymen, R.E.M., the Replacements and Teenage Fanclub. Connell was living in a one-bedroom apartment in his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina when he began writing the song in early 1991, and he struggled for months to finish the lyrics. Connell remained grateful that the record label did not attempt to influence his writing, as "at the height of the grunge era, 1993, they sure as hell would not have suggested that we come up with an acoustic-based, mid-tempo snoozer."

'74-'75

If you love something, set it free.  If it comes back to you, it was meant to be.  Unless you throw it in the river.

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