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City Lights - This song was originally recorded around 1998 for the 1st Not So Plain Jayne album. When we decided to release an album that didn’t have to be written by all four members of the band, it gave us the freedom to bring literally anything to the table. That meant the freedom to explore other styles of music, to bring in guest artists and to even record cover songs. Ronnie had been working on a feel good easy listening type song that he couldn’t finish. That happens a lot with songs. You some times find yourself writing half of the song and hit a brick wall. That’s when a good producer or another song writer steps in to help encourage the progress of the song by suggesting lyrical or musical ideas. That’s when I offered to help and ended up coming up with the second verse. It turned out to become one of my favorite songs ever.