Cinderella

This song shares its name with the title character in Disney's classic Cinderella, but that's the only thing it has in common with that fairytale. Firefall founding member Larry Burnett wrote this song about a girl who wants the fairytale ending, but when she gets pregnant, her boyfriend kicks her out to raise their son on her own. This wasn't, however, based on personal experience. Burnett was 16 years old when he wrote this song and says, "I certainly didn't have a wife or a girlfriend who was pregnant and I was working my butt off trying to support us. None of that was going on. But it was certainly happening around me in other people's lives."

It took Burnett about 15 minutes to write this song. He says it happened so quick he almost never saw it coming. "It was already there, and I was just sort of this vessel. And *poof* I went, whoa, that was interesting. It was a nice moment."

Larry absorbs things happening in his surroundings, "like a reporter," without even realizing it, and turns them into song lyrics. He's not what he calls a "typical" songwriter, as he usually doesn't know what he's going to write about until he puts pen to paper. He says, "I know guys who sit down, and they have a concept and they want to work a song around the concept, and rhyming words and yadda, yadda. It's like a construction project. And I have attempted that, and in my view failed miserably, or come up with a lesser product, I guess, at the end of something like that. But what I noticed when I was really young is that, wow, this thing happened, and if there's a way I can access that environment, then perhaps it will happen more. And so that's kind of me."