"American Oxygen" may seem like it was released out of the blue, the song's co-writer Sam Harris says writing it took nearly an entire year -- the longest he's ever spent on something.
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We worked on that song for a year. When we started out on it, it was a track that Alex had. He sends me beats all the time, and I'm constantly writing to them -- for him and pitching for us, for the band and for other artists. This is one that really stuck with me, and I started this chorus with the first couple lines, and Alex immediately was like, "This is something cool, keep going." We worked on just that chorus for like three or four months, going back and forth, back and forth.... It goes to show you that sometimes these songs just appear out of nowhere and sometimes you just have to go at it like a block of marble and you're chipping away at it.
