"Depends on the flow you want." He makes a half-assed wavy motion with one hand, like the surface of an ocean. "And the focus you're looking for. If you want the words to catch, then rhyme them. If you want the music itself to stick out more then write around it."

Is this something off a clean slate, or is it based around some of the riffs they'd been messing with lately? Sometimes a sound came up in practice that inspired words of its own, rather than the other way around.

"What are you feeling in your gut?"