Whenever I get to travel between Prague and Sydney, I stop in London for a little while to meet Gabriel. The original idea behind these visits was to see each other at least once a year and lately we even get to see each other much more than that. Last year, I came to London two or three times, plus Gabriel enjoyed his holiday with me in Australia, so we had about three weeks together. Obviously, one would expect a flood of new songs and ideas and our website crashing under new quality content and legions of anxious visitors.

Well, it is not the case.

The truth is that when we meet, we don’t work too hard. It’s understandable, having these meetings quite apart, we have to discuss what’s new, run through each other’s iTunes and go out! And when we come back, we’re either ready to pass out, or ready to watch some must-see classic. And then pass out. And then eat, and watch more movies, and go out again, and eat, and meet people, etc., etc.

However, it’s not totally pointless to catch up. When I stopped in London few days before last Christmas, we took the obvious path the night I arrived, yet, surprisingly, we finished a song the next day! Sadly, it wasn’t much of a new material, as it was a song we penned eight months earlier in Sydney. Honestly, quietly ignoring Gabriel’s email appeals for a revision, I though the song was ready from day one. Nevertheless, Gabriel insisted that there was line that was repeated and needed a change. Yes, I’m talking about a song called She has a soul, a tune I discussed ages ago (and which nobody heard so far but two of us).

After exercising different techniques to argue his truth, Gabriel finally got me to change the incriminated line. Sigh. Sigh. It took me about twenty seconds — and I have to admit that my admiration for a certain famous band played a role in writing such a line.

I changed the following:

she has a soul
she hardly bares to her men
she has a soul
that’s too hard to understand

to

she has a soul
she hardly bares to her men
the inner light
that’s too hard to understand

And that was it. I’ve never heard Gabriel whinging about this one anymore.