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"This song is another one with a long history. My very first band was supposed to be a three-piece with my friend Jon from Guy Fox and my friend Ethan on drums. Jon and I were going to trade off on singer/guitarist duties with bass because we both could sing, and neither of us balked at the idea of playing bass. We got together exactly once and it got NOWHERE... it was dreadful because there was no direction to the rehearsal (which is why nowadays I'm in the driver's seat as much as I am in a rehearsal room), and nothing got accomplished because we were all too afraid to step on one another's toes. We did however work out a joke song about fish, with a stupid riff I wrote. It needed a chorus, so I wrote another stupid riff that Jon really liked, so we scrapped the 'joke' aspect of it and started writing for it.
Fast forward to my time in Boston and I naturally found myself updating the song we'd both come to know affectionately as 'Big Fat Cat Scrotum'. I stripped everything from it except for the chorus chord progression and wrote a new song around the idea, and what came out was a very sad-sounding slowish balad on an acoustic. I went from there and changed around a few parts and sped it up a bit to turn it into a heavier melodic song, and threw a middle eight in 6/8 time to cap things off. The middle eight was the beginning of a song idea that I had recorded just before I moved down to Boston and never fleshed out, but worked out very well in this new song.
Fast forward again to the aborted Repiphanies album, which came about in my latter days in Boston. Mostly, the album made sense at the time because I had 'Happy Pill', 'Away Tonight', 'First Day', 'Green Bananas', and 'Chorus' that all worked as stripped-down acoustic arrangements, and all had yet to be legitimately recorded or released, with 'Chorus' and 'First Day' serving as the heart of the album. When Braintree was first formed, 'Chorus' was able to make the transition, but in its current state is unable to compete with its sister song, 'First Day' on any terms."
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