a coldplay "song that could've been".

i'm pretty sure it's one of two songs that i intentionally played a guitar part left handed on just to say i did (the clean lead part coming out of the choruses and during the bridge).

adding the strings later gave it a bit of heft, but the song still lacked in the end.

the name, fragile, came from a sticker i ripped off the package my amp head came in and stuck to my amp; the line "we are such nervous things" was always intended to be "we are such fragile things", but in my aversion to using a song name in the song (for the most part), i switched out the lyric.

it's an earlier song, maybe 2011 or so but something about it struck me enough to try it out here with this group.

i was also hellbent on using hotrods to play the drums, mainly because i envisioned the song sounding like Nirvana's unplugged set, and i think that ended up contributing to me disliking the energy of the track at the end of the day.

i also hated that the producer had me change how i sang the chorus from "things can't go my way, we can't have thaaaa-eee-aaaat" to just a sullen, autotuned "thaaaaaaaaaat". though it was more correct, i felt the song lost a little character in decisions like that, decisions i wouldn't allow on a song like 'wax indignant', one that kept a lot of its character by being a single solo take of me on piano and vocals.

the "ho-hum day" bit comes from a sticker on my english teacher's desk that read, "another ho-hum day in paradise". i hope he meant it sarcastically, because that's how i meant it here.

if i had played the drums with sticks and with more energy and we had let the vocal be lazy and rough and dismal, maybe this would've made the cut.

next time, buddy.