So, like a lot of people, I bought songbooks. I'd buy, at various points, a Beatles songbook, a Tom Waits songbook. And eventually I got around to buying a Cole Porter songbook, a Rogers and Hart songbook. They didn't use that kind of verse, chorus, verse, chorus thing that is pretty common to rock and roll songs. And usually the long introduction gets cut off.
Nobody sings it.
You just hear the other part. I didn't think about it very much, but I'm sure some of that started rubbing off when I began coming up with melodies for this album, and thinking how I was going to structure songs. I wanted to mix that with the kind of groove-oriented stuff that I've always done, whether it be funk grooves, Latin grooves or whatever. I like those vaguely melancholy melodies and harmonies against a kind of pulsating groove. Sure there is.