But a story is a story, in any era. And the best ones, I’ve always thought, develop from mysteries you want to solve. You just have to take the trip to find out, following a simple line with some clues along the way. I like to think of songs that way. The sequence of the music is like the line in the snow, or the groove in a record. You put your head down, or you put the needle down, and ride it from beginning to end. But something has to propel you forward. A song, like any story, has to hold your interest with clues that are musically paced and poetically ambiguous enough to spark the
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