Time for another track, perhaps.<\/p>\n
This one is a long time coming as well. It started with the idea that this song has two faces.<\/p>\n
One is the defiant, harsh, “screw you” character that puts it in the category with Positively 4th Street and Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat. The cocky, major-key bravado that says: “you may think we have something going here, but we don’t.”<\/p>\n
But there is also a more mellow angle to the song. All those things that it ain’t me that’s going to put up with — it’s not that they’re all that unreasonable, really, as long as they don’t turn into a lifestyle or a pattern of empty habit. In this light, the song becomes more of a second cousin of Idiot Wind or Sara — and a minor key would be much more suitable.<\/p>\n
So I played it in A minor instead of C major, with exactly the same melody — and it worked.<\/p>\n
And thus transformed from a put-down song to a breakup song, other references offered themselves up: Sympathy for the Devil, “there must be some way out of here”, etc.<\/p>\n
The track is highly unfinished. I’m going to record a more polished version eventually, so take it for what it is.<\/p>\n