[wwittman]

"the second hand unwinds..."

"we can't rewind" would be Video Killed The Radio Star!

Time always sounded amazing for some odd reason from the first second we laid down the Linn Drum guide to the last guitar overdub.
Everytime I pushed up the faders it sounded magical.

But it was a very straight ahead recording... it wasn't particularly emotional to record.

I do remember it being written though... she had the title from a movie listing she'd seen in TV Guide, and we went out to dinner on a break and she and Rob stayed behind to work on it.
When we came back they were sitting at the piano in Studio A (the room we weren;t working in on the ground floor) and they played it for us.
Most of the lyric wasn't there yet but it had the chorus and Rob was playing it in kind of a bouncy reggae style.

But from there, in the next few days, it came together very quickly and relatively easily.
The guitar was actually the last thing to go on, and, except fot a bit of the solo section, it was added up in the mixroom with Eric standing in front of the desk between the two huge Westlake speakers on plinths.