Singled Out: Hey Guy's Lana

I was sitting at my parents house in my boxers. At the time really broke, with no job and no aspirations aside from one; I wanted to write a bunch of new songs and release a record.

I picked up my beat up classical guitar that I had from the time I was 9 and started messing around. The first thing that I started playing sounded almost classical of the Baroque period to me. I got really excited and kept moving the progression forward while wrapping the most simple melody around it. It got so entangled that I wasn't sure of how to get back to the original motif that I started with.

After 4 hours our of beating the progression over the head, I figured out the most clever way to get back to the original theme. At that moment in my mind I thought -- wow I still come back to you -- and thats when it all came to me; that the process of writing the first part of this song is a metaphor for an obsessive love affair. No matter how much you get crushed in the journey you still come back to her.

There is a concept in alternative/post Freudian psychology named "anal". It is referring to a personality type that is hyper-monogamous and incapable of progression -- I named the song Lana cause it is about a girl but its also -- "anal" backwards.

The chorus of the song came to me on a subway ride as the verse melody kept spinning around in my head. I kept thinking from the standpoint of an obsessive lover, which I have been plenty of times. How nice it would be if she felt or perhaps expressed that she felt the same as you feel for her -- "if you feel this/ reveal this". The quick scaling melody jumped out with the lyrics "wouldn't it be nice" and I ran home to figure the part out on guitar while repeating it over and over in my head. The bridge idea was sparked at a later day during the first attempts of recording the song.