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''"I started longing for the safety, peace, quiet, simplicity and family structure of my New England childhood. I thought back to one of my favorite memories, lying in the bottom bunk, my brother in the top, in our bedroom in our farmhouse in Eastford, Connecticut, in the hot, hot, summer, 7, 8 p.m., sun still up, but having to go to sleep because it's our bedtime, one of those big box fans blowing, and my parents, Ma and Steve, sitting at our bedside, singing an old hippie song to us, to calm us down and ease us into sleep, "May the Long Time Sun Shine Upon You." ...I wrote it on my mom's piano when I was back in Connecticut at Christmas."'' | ''"I started longing for the safety, peace, quiet, simplicity and family structure of my New England childhood. I thought back to one of my favorite memories, lying in the bottom bunk, my brother in the top, in our bedroom in our farmhouse in Eastford, Connecticut, in the hot, hot, summer, 7, 8 p.m., sun still up, but having to go to sleep because it's our bedtime, one of those big box fans blowing, and my parents, Ma and Steve, sitting at our bedside, singing an old hippie song to us, to calm us down and ease us into sleep, "May the Long Time Sun Shine Upon You." ...I wrote it on my mom's piano when I was back in Connecticut at Christmas."'' | ||
Karl Koch noted in a recent interview that "Longtime Sunshine" was meant to close ''Pinkerton'' until "[[Butterfly]]" was written very late in the sessions. | |||
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