Tom Odell - Can't Pretend - Commentary

Love, I have wounds Only you can mend You can mend, oh, oh, mm I guess that's love I've been listening to a lot of, kind of, uhm, Leon Russel and Elton John And, uhm, and what I love about Elton John and Leon Russel Is their, kind of, uh, is their, their, their reference to blues, and dark blues I was still playing a few gigs and was just setting up the band Doing some gigs out of town most times and I come back and then I do I do, sort of, uh, three days of writing, uhm, in my flat And I would sort of, it, it, it was quite an old time in some ways, 'cause it was like Uhm, I sort of watched three movies and listened to three movies in a row I mean, I wouldn't leave the house for three days And I'd listen to a lot of music and films and then I'd write for just, sort of, straight six hours Uh, afterwards, three, you know, if you spend three days in your flat writing You know, things can get a little bit, uhm Things would be absolutely darker than it would be if you were writing songs at a, at a festival So, you know, a lot of those songs are along those kinda bluesy, bluesy lines