Q: in your most recent song, is "pave the way" to "another/some other time" about trying to make something good but putting it off until someone beats you to it, then feeling like it's useless because "it's already been paved today, we don't have to pave it again"?
A: no. "pave the way" is about bravely moving toward the future. then, the second time, "it's already been paved today" came about because i was 80% sure that i wanted to do that chorus again right there, but the problem is that that "pave the way" line seems to be most effective when it feels "new". the line seemed to lose its effectiveness when being said the second time. But i found that by dropping down to a lower range and going "it's already been paved today", it made the whole thing land better and solved that problem