a bit edgy for matthew. he wouldn't have necessarily agreed with everything i said, but he thought my songs were very clever and angular in a way that he thought matched dahl. he wasn't sure about whether i was right because it was all very sardonic and sarcastic. but sometimes, for an encore, i'd go on and drop all the irony. and that night i went on and played white wine in the sun, which is my christmas song for my daughter. and about your family, about reconnecting? about home, and it makes people sob. # you won't understand. # but you will learn some day # that wherever you are and whatever you face # these are the people who make you feel safe in this world # and matthew went, "0h, 0k, he's got that as well." and so he called me into a meeting and asked me if i'd heard of roald dahl and the story of matilda, which of course i had, because dahl was huge in my childhood.