If I had to describe A Song Full of Regret, the best phrase would be “sleeper hit”…or “the forgotten song”…or “surprise” would work too.

To be honest I can’t remember how, where, why, or when this song started, or how it came to be as you hear it today – but I know where it almost ended up. And that is on the cutting room floor with all the other tracks that didn’t make the cut for HBLS.
In any of the forms this song took during the writing and recording process it always had a few parts that we all enjoyed, but we could never come to a unanimous sense of confidence around the song. Needless to say, the song toiled on the edge of obscurity for quite some time – the forgotten song.
That is until one day, after weeks of no one even uttering the words “song” and “regret” in the same sentence, we heard a mix of the song and had a “whoa, this is actually a great song” moment. Probably followed by a short session of everyone saying they always knew the song was great and agreeing that we had never really wanted to cut it in the first place…or that if we had, it was only once for a brief moment of absentmindedness.
To this day I still catch each one of us, often under our breathe and to ourselves, in seemingly a state of surprise or amazement after a solid run through of the song whispering, “wow, that is a great song.” This is our twenty dollar bill in the pocket of your winter jacket during it’s first action of the season.
I’ll stay away from inserting any cheesy lines about how we may have possibly regretted not adding this song to the album, but every time I catch one of the boys with a sly smile on their face after we perform this song, I know we made the right choice.

P.

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