Q: is there any particular reason you decided to make "at the corner store" because it seems very on-topic throughout the entire thing unlike some of your other songs.
A: the musical figure (melody/chords of the verse) was an appealing choice at the time, amongst a list of my top 27 favorites at the time (including "i'm a huge gamer most of the time"). The dummy lyric on the corner store figure actually was about the "corner store", and the first move i made on the writing, once it was selected, was to try to get away from that. but i could not