Q: what's the story behind "i'm scared"?
A: i was about to go out for a walk, and then right about when i was putting my shoes on, i came up with a high figure "(i) don't wanna Die!" with "die" on beat 1 bar 1, all notes being flat 7 except the last note being the high 1, and the rhythm being like "(&)a e a1", and i was also working on the selection process right about the same time, and somehow i switched it to "i'm scared" which seemed a bit stronger, and the bassline was working its way up and back to 1 over the course of 2 bars (more similar to what it does in 'ground plane'), and it got added to the list. i also had a bridge section which didn't get used, which i think was added to the list separately. i'd preliminarily selected 81 items, including "i'm scared", "ground plane", "i'm a huge gamer most of the time", "special sandals", a vamp similar to the 'happy' section of ground plane, and a figure that would become "at the corner store". I then i narrowed it down to a list of 16, including "i'm scared", "huge gamer", the figure that would become "corner store", and the vamp that would become "i'm happy". Then i asked the computer to choose for me from amongst those 16, and it chose number 10 which was "i'm scared". Then i think the first thing i did was i changed it so the bass gets around the line in 1 bar instead of 2, because it seemed to slam harder that way. then i wrote the rest of the song according to my best songwriting procedures and practices