This song is about the weird sort of depression I experienced at the height of the pandemic (say, mid-to-late 2020). Since I wasn’t going anywhere every day, I reduced showers, clothes changes, started slipping on dental hygiene, etc. One crucial fact I learned is that my right armpit starts to stink a whole lot more (and reaches a higher level of stank altogether) than my left pit.

The only things that are recorded here are the acoustic guitar part and the vocal lines, both of which I captured via the Zoom recorder, with DI on the guitar (plus the Zoom XY pair) and an SM-58 for the vocals. The rest of the instruments are various synths and virtual instruments.

Lyrics

My bad habits
Are no habits
All my habits
Faded away
Are these habits
Here to stay?