still quite an ambitious commission to take on. yes, i suppose so. but it was a youth theatre company that i felt very familiar with, and i pretty quickly decided i could do it. just by sitting down and trying. and i had written a lot of songs by then and i had written, you know, i had gone through this phase in my teens, like a good teenager, of musicalising ts eliot poems. like, i've got this song that i can still hear that goes: # let us go, then, you and i # when the evening is spread out against the sky # like a patient, etherised upon a table...# yeah, i know it. right? we all know that. and by the way, i've gone back to eliot in my later years and it stands up, man. it's brilliant. it's beautiful stuff. anyway, i even had, i did a bit of wasteland as well. # this is the way the world ends...# like, i was using this grunge stuff coming out of seattle and, like, putting it to ts eliot lyrics. so i was already writing music to pre—existing lyrics and this love's labour's lost thing was built of the script, which has a few songs in it, you know, like all his comedies have a "hey, nonny nonny" and a bit of a thump,