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Songwriter Interviews: Todd Rundgren

Carl Wiser, Songfacts, 2 April 2015

'I SAW THE LIGHT' came a little too easy for Todd Rundgren. The song took him maybe 20 minutes to write, just going up and down the piano keyboard and stringing together "ite" words:

Total word count of piece: 3302

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