Who wrote what

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Just to get the obvious out of the way for Invisible Touch:

Invisible Touch - lyrics: Phil

Tonight Tonight Tonight - lyrics: Phil

Land Of Confusion - lyrics: Mike

In Too Deep - lyrics: Phil

Anything She Does - lyrics: Banks

Domino - lyrics: Banks

Throwing It All Away - lyrics: Mike

The Brazilian - instrumental, primarily a Banks composition based on a sample of Phil & Mike jamming

Do the Neurotic - instrumental

Feeding The Fire - lyrics: Banks

I’d Rather Be You- lyrics: Phil

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I love Do the Neurotic. I feel like they went the safer route by choosing to include The Brazilian on the album instead of Do the Neurotic. That jam throughout DTN is fantastic, and the end to me is a classic example of “sounds the way joy feels.”

i've been thinking of a certain song lately...

long ago i read somewhere that the lyrics to paperlate were written by phil.

i bet you anything that they were actually written by mike.

"Ooh it's too easy to live in a cold sweat
Just sitting dripping in pools below"

"Oh it's too easy to compute your future
Taking no risks and playing too safe"

"Ooh it's too easy to talk about rocking the boat
Making changes and changing track
But you'd better not lock that door
'Cause you'll be coming back"

these lyrics sound very mike-ish to me.

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long ago i read somewhere that the lyrics to paperlate were written by phil.

i bet you anything that they were actually written by mike.

I think it can be difficult to guess the writer of a song's lyrics based on the writing style. For example, Steve recently said that the lyrics to "Inside & Out" are Phil's, but I think they sound far more Mike-like than "Paperlate."