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I'd Hate To

from Small Stories by Ask Your Doctor

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After coming home from a Wilco concert, I wrote a chord progression that I fell in love with, which became the verse of this song. The rest sort of fell into place naturally.

As an experiment, I tried to be completely modal when I wrote this song; that is, I tried to make sure it didn't contain any notes outside of the G major scale. I think I did it, except maybe for some grace notes in the organ solo.

lyrics

This girl is fighting the good fight
This girl is only 12 years old, and she's taking the world on
This girl writes stories of anger
Don't ask how was her day at school, well she'd hate to tell you

And she's been this way ever since the divorce
And she's never asked for any recourse
With her tired eyes, she requests you go away
With her tired eyes, she requests you go away

And now she's ten years older
She hangs her head as she walks around, she's ashamed to be there
At work, she just heads home and
at home, she turns to go back to work, she's still fighting the good fight
This girl, she sleeps alone now
Don't ask who slept beside her last, well she'd hate to tell you
He's moved along with his life
She'll say she's moved along from him, he's about to get married

And she's been this way ever since the divorce
And she's never asked for any recourse
With her tired eyes, she requests you go away
With her tired eyes, she requests you go away

Please go away

And don't forget to invite me
To see the wedding, you know that I would hate to be there
And don't forget to invite me
To see the wedding, you know that I would hate to be there

credits

from Small Stories, released July 28, 2010
Robert Maule: Acoustic guitar, fretless bass, organ, vocals, drum programming, most recording, and mixing
Andrew Graves: Help recording vocals
Sound effects- free and open source, found online somewhere

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