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    "comment": "The song’s title is taken from Edward Hopper’s painting Sun in an Empty Room (1963, oil on canvas, 28 ¾ x 39 ½ inches). \n--\nJohn K. Samson was specifically influenced by Edward Hopper after he came home from a European tour feeling drained and disillusioned by songwriting.\n\n“At the end of our European tour in 2004, I was really burned out and went to London to visit some friends. I went to the Tate Gallery, and there was a Hopper exhibition. I walked in thinking that I didn’t want to write songs anymore, and I walked out thinking I did. His paintings both invite and resist narrative. There’s something about them that just begs a story to be told.”\n--\nHere's that Hopper painting: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/sun-in-an-empty-room-edward-hopper.html",
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