Crying was one of those songs that was written over a period of time (six months). I had the riff of the pre-chorus and chorus long before the melody for the verse. This song is a bit of a stretch for me, mainly because it's really hard to sing and play at the same time (see example 13A in your textbooks regarding patting your head and rubbing your stromach). The verse stumped me so much that I finally took to dividing it up with a scream in the middle of the section. Marko adds some very interesting guitar playing in the pre-chorus using only harmonics as notes. The middle section of the song used to be sparse with only a choppy version of the chord progression filling in the space. Three days before the song was mixed I recorded a guitar solo as an experiment on my Gibson SG with Gavin. I hated it; but Gavin used it in the mix. The bridge of this song reminds me a little bit of U2; because everytime I hear a drummer keeping time on the floor tom I think of any number of songs from the U2 album "War". The outro lyric of the song ("you can't break away what you cannot change") was discovered during the recording of the harmonies. I felt at the time that there was too much blank space at the end of the song and it wasn't lyrically complete. Tim Cullen from the band Summercamp guest appeared on this track singing all the harmonies. Thank you Tim, those notes are really high!! This song is gonna be hard to sing live.
Crying was one of those songs that was written over a period of time (six months). I had the riff of the pre-chorus and chorus long before the melody for the verse. This song is a bit of a stretch for me, mainly because it's really hard to sing and play at the same time (see example 13A in your textbooks regarding patting your head and rubbing your stromach). The verse stumped me so much that I finally took to dividing it up with a scream in the middle of the section. Marko adds some very interesting guitar playing in the pre-chorus using only harmonics as notes. The middle section of the song used to be sparse with only a choppy version of the chord progression filling in the space. Three days before the song was mixed I recorded a guitar solo as an experiment on my Gibson SG with Gavin. I hated it; but Gavin used it in the mix. The bridge of this song reminds me a little bit of U2; because everytime I hear a drummer keeping time on the floor tom I think of any number of songs from the U2 album "War". The outro lyric of the song ("you can't break away what you cannot change") was discovered during the recording of the harmonies. I felt at the time that there was too much blank space at the end of the song and it wasn't lyrically complete. Tim Cullen from the band Summercamp guest appeared on this track singing all the harmonies. Thank you Tim, those notes are really high!! This song is gonna be hard to sing live.
(From www.sugarcult.com)