“[Mark] often took expressions from real life and made them feel like dialogue:
“See ya mate!”
“Yeah. See ya mate.”
He overheard sentences and made them feel like poetry:
“Nobody has ever called me Sir in my entire life.”
Fall songs are often script-like. When writing a script the aim is to form those images and ideas into words then turn those back into a visual medium, by performing and filming them. With Mark's songs he achieved that, too, by richly describing the scene, the images would unfold in the listener's mind.”