This is the simplest chord pattern on the album, and the chords came from me learning lots of 90s songs and realising most of the best songs use very simple chord patterns.
This is a fictional song - I guess I was thinking of it being used in like a stage play or something similar. The first line, that just came to me, but once I had that idea of "this is a song about me trying to write a song" the rest of the lyrics just flowed - it was about someone saying "I purposely wrote this song, hoping you'd love it, so that you'll then love a part of me". I literally wrote this song in about 10 minutes.
The first verse focusses on the singer describing why they wrote the 'song', and the second verse focuses on their intent with the 'lyrics'. They are clearly in love and are begging for attention. It's child like in it's honest but it's nice.
Why no chorus? I just didn't feel it needed it. Simple as that.
I did keep on getting the feeling to make it bigger, to take it somewhere, but I stopped my mind from doing that once I associated it with Joe Cocker's You Are So Beautiful, which is a gorgeous song, but simple, short and to the point. A perfect love song - you are left with no doubt that the singer is in love. It doesn't have the fan-fare, but it's gorgeous, and a flat out love song. I kept reminding myself of that "make it like You Are So Beautiful", simple chords, low instrumentation, subtle, but gorgeous.
I had to record this a few times because I was strumming too hard... it worked best when I was barely picking it all. I am barely touching the strings in this recording, nothing like the other songs. It took a few goes to make it sound right - I had to strum so gently, then it sounded right!