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Malcolm Breaks Down the Perfect Break Up Song
Here I go falling in love again. That was my first song. And I wrote it for a girl because I was like in love and stuff. And so the guitar really was just an instrument for me to get these songs out of me. I always like to say, even when I play and learn things on the piano I play, I'm not really a piano player. I learn things to support my songwriting. And that's what I did then.
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Malcolm Breaks Down the Perfect Break Up Song
I turned that into my first song. So I was just learning chords to support all my little songs. Wow.
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Malcolm Breaks Down the Perfect Break Up Song
And it was purely kind of an escape, so to say. Wow. It wasn't anything but that. I didn't think they were going to go anywhere. But that was the drive.
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Malcolm Breaks Down the Perfect Break Up Song
I wrote that right out of high school.
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Malcolm Breaks Down the Perfect Break Up Song
Yeah, it was because I was a man child. So it was second year or something, 78 or so, 78, 79, right in that time. So it was a girl. It was like this one girl, she was like the most, while we were in high school, we were really good friends. And there's no way I would have ever thought I would have been with her.
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Malcolm Breaks Down the Perfect Break Up Song
But when I got out of high school, we started talking, and then we actually started dating. I remember Daryl was like, how is this even happening? How do you have her? And then I remember we went to go see Brooke Shields' Endless Love. We saw Endless Love together. And then something happened, I think,
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Malcolm Breaks Down the Perfect Break Up Song
right before we were going out going away in manchow all of a sudden she stopped calling me and i couldn't i couldn't reach her and i don't know what happened but it was just like we're just like broken up and then there was no cell phones there was no good you couldn't reach her on a phone no social media it was just done and i was really messed up about it and
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Malcolm Breaks Down the Perfect Break Up Song
And that's when I wrote this, you know, because, you know, that was the time period. It was in the fall. And so then I was thinking maybe when I come back, maybe this November we'll get back together and find it. So that was actually a love song that was written way back then.
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Malcolm Breaks Down the Perfect Break Up Song
We were dating. It was the second rain of autumn. We shared a feeling. Yeah. Come on. It was like we started dating and then all of a sudden we like, I remember it was raining. And like, looks like something's going to happen here.
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Malcolm Breaks Down the Perfect Break Up Song
No, yes. It's really about watching others and how they feel and imagining having to go through that. I'm always asked, how are you able to write for women? And he said, if you just kind of think of it and think of whatever they go through and think of how you'd feel, it's not that hard to figure out, damn, that's fucked up. I feel like I'll write about that.
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Malcolm Breaks Down the Perfect Break Up Song
And as a kid that was always falling in love and thinking I was in love. Feeling like you were in love. Yeah. You know, that's what it was. My very first song was about a girl named Rhonda Newbold. I always say her name. And that was in Here I Go Falling in Love Again.
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Malcolm Breaks Down the Perfect Break Up Song
And the second song that I wrote that I clearly remember was about the same girl, which was two years later, from sixth grade to eighth grade, because she broke my heart, was called The Bitter Taste of Life. Those are feelings that I had, and everything was exaggerated. I had written a song called So Shy. So there would be pieces of things, of songs that I would write.
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Malcolm Breaks Down the Perfect Break Up Song
I wrote a song called Tanita, wrote a song called Shelly. One of the best songs I ever wrote was a song called Last Song Forever, which was, I wrote that when I was in my senior year. Never recorded it. I think I let a group record it as they turned it into a gospel record. Do you remember any of it? Yeah. Could you play a little of it? I don't know what my voice is like right now.