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This song is complicated. I wrote Complicated in mild reference to certain complicated situations that were happening in my love life, at work, and another rather bonkers topic... my computer problems!!

The song uses a verse each to tackle the three subjects and by the end of the song the messages that are delivered in reply balance the verses and answer the posed quandaries. This is probably the weirdest song I have ever written, but also might just be the catchiest. It somehow manages to link the similarities between the differing topics and then places some solutions in various disguises through the other sections. This is probably the most complicated texturing I've ever tried to master within a single song but it's deliberate as the subject matter and title match this method of composing I think.

lyrics

Complicated

I have to get up in the morning after ten o’ clock at night
Before I go to bed.
I work for peanuts every day but that’s the price I have to pay
Because the suit man said.
Cos there’s just so much going on but I just can’t get it wrong
Or shit the fan will hit.
Concurrent thinking’s quite a chore and conversation’s kind of flawed Among the thick of it…

It’s getting far too complicated,
It’s crossing over the line,
I’m getting rather contemplated,
I’m going out of my mind…


Turn my attention to my twitter just to see if someone bitter
Is as sad as me.
I get an error message pop up, conversation window block up,
So I hit delete.
Can’t check my vital information cos despite my good intentions
The connection drops.
Disable basic bios options in the parsing table drive
Before the router stops…

It’s getting far too complicated,
It’s crossing over the line,
I’m getting rather contemplated,
I’m going out of my mind…

In terms of matters of the heart the point is stopping, where to start Before you’re falling in.
Just say a word or three a day, or else the doctor signs away for half of All your things.
Remember all the anniversaries and twice removing families
At all the costs.
A secret complimenting of each other with a whisper under cover
In a parking lot…

It’s getting far too complicated,
It’s crossing over the line,
I’m getting rather contemplated,
I’m going out of my mind…

Lose or win,
There is no easy way around about it,
Just a simple thing,
Good conversation with the friends who found it out
The easy way,
Get to the point and let the truth hurt rationally,
Some might say,
Good nomenclatures but the words come naturally,
As tempting as it is, I’d…
I’d rather take another road.

It’s getting far too complicated,
It’s crossing over the line,
I’m getting rather contemplated,
I’m going out of my mind…

Feelings that I’m missing,
(I want to forget about it)
Dealing hurtful kisses,
(You want to forget about it)
Picking at the loose ends,
(We want to forget about it)
Broken enough to mend,
There is just no doubt about it,
As tempting as it is, I’d…
I’d rather take another road.

It’s getting far too complicated,
It’s crossing over the line,
I’m getting rather contemplated,
I’m going out of my mind…

credits

from Are You Sitting Comfortably?, released January 24, 2015
Written and recorded by Ryan Mitchell-Smith 2014.

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