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  When "Less Important Things" first begins, you can hear these dark guitars come in to set the tone.  With the visual of the music video, you can tell there are parts in here by both a cello and piano.   Backing vocals come into the chorus to fill out the sound and it just has this big feel to it, like Bruce Springsteen or someone else along those same lines.  Yet, this also makes it feel distinct, such as a sound which you will come to know and associate with Eric Hirschberg. This song itself is about when your kids grow up and move out, the sense of loneliness you might feel combined with accomplishment.   One of the more accurate lyrics which comes out right away says: "We built this place to withstand a riot / It's not supposed to be this quiet".  While I am not yet at this point in parenting, as a former child I can still understand how it can feel to have a house full of children and chaos at one point in time but now no more. What I ...