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I think you just have to go where the song takes you. Sometimes a song needs to be short, sweet, and to the point. Other songs are just more elaborate and have more things to say. In my songwriting I've always found tension to be the most important element. The common verse/chorus/etc works for that reason. You build tension and then resolve only to build tension again. It's like sex. Some songs are long tantric love making sessions and others are "bang her head off the headboard" fucking kinds of things.
I'm writing one right now that has a very weird unresolved feel to it. It always feels incomplete. Even when it reaches the chorus (or the closest piece resembling a chorus) it doesn't quite completely release the tension. That's where the drama comes from.
Songs that have no drama (or tension and resolution) are the songs I find boring.
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