\u201cYour Doll\u201d began in 1999 as a Nirvana-esque grunge song during a moment of pique with my then-girlfriend. I wrote down the words and chords, feeling sure I would remember the melody. I hadn\u2019t yet learned that I never remember the melody for very long if I don\u2019t record it; needless to say, I forgot it. Discouraged, I put the song aside.<\/p>\n
Every once in a while, I would flip through my songwriting notebook and see the abandoned song there. Ten years passed. I was on my way back home from Asheville, North Carolina when, willy-nilly, a new melody popped into my head, along with new chords and the idea to remake the song in a reggae style. Even more astonishingly, I managed to remember the melody long enough to get home and record it.<\/p>\n
The new melody did present a problem, though; whereas before the song was complete with two verses, now the two verses would have to be combined into one, necessitating that I write another. I took another six months to come up with the additional lyrics. Now, I thought, the song is complete.<\/p>\n
I was never quite satisfied with the end result though. Finally, in April 2012, I took another look at the song. I ended up changing the key to make it easier to sing, modified the chorus to include new chords and backing vocals, and a bridge\/solo section. I brought the song in to add to the Mother Zephyr repertoire, but that band ended before we could spend much time on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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