Q: Was New Canaan written entirely through during your trip there/the time you spent there? Also, just gotta say that "looks like a 12-figure income town, but I love the shade of those license plates yeaaa"... those lyrics and that melody gives me goosebumps whenever I listen to it. So good.
A: i think the original chart, as written in 2009, is posted on the expert page of this site. the song is mostly there, but some small revisions occured in 2012/13. the license plate line was a revision. i think the original line was "not much for words and i'm not much for rhymes, but that don't mean i can't buy a coffee" and i think there was a revision on that that went "looks like a ?(some number) figure income town, but that don't mean i can't look around." and then the final revision, sometime in 2012 or 2013 was the license plate line. i was so happy with this line that this used to haunt me throughout 2013/14, whenever i would see a connecticut license plate i would be reminded of that line, and get burningly sad that that song hadn't been recorded yet, and no one had heard it. thankfully now it has, but there are many other songs of course, unrecorded, that still give me the same feeling