I think this song is just a very simple concept, meaning it is what the title says. Gems that went “unplucked” that he couldn’t work into other songs. The two verses are just lines that Gordie couldn’t fit into other songs on this album. Watching interviews he talked a lot about how his writing style involved just taking lines and verses he really liked from his notebooks and fitting them into songs. This song feels like it is coming from the mi date of a songwriter struggling to make lyrics work in a song.
I think this song is just a very simple concept, meaning it is what the title says. Gems that went “unplucked” that he couldn’t work into other songs. The two verses are just lines that Gordie couldn’t fit into other songs on this album. Watching interviews he talked a lot about how his writing style involved just taking lines and verses he really liked from his notebooks and fitting them into songs. This song feels like it is coming from the mi date of a songwriter struggling to make lyrics work in a song.