Working on the songs

My butt hurts from too much computer-assisted immobility, but I have been researching songs and listening and also recording for the last few hours, trying to prepare for tonight's meeting with Wayne. I just don't know if I like anything I've done. Argh. I recorded the vocal to Goddess of War all the way through. Now I wonder if there's something different I could have done with the chorus melody. I guess I'll try to finalize this and burn a version for Wayne to listen to and ask him in the meantime to give me the arrangement without the vocal guide on it, because then I could see if I could keep the chords but improvise a hipper melody. I just don't know. We've done so much work on it, but I'm having one of those "Is everything too complex?" moments. I really like Alicia Keys for her ability to harken back to the classic soul sound (Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder). This song is very far from that, so maybe this is one of those creative rabbit holes one has to watch out for, but I found myself wanting the chorus to be closer to that sound than it is. Catchiness isn't the be-all-and-end-all, but some sort of hummability ought to be, I think. I'm mired in confusion. Not sure what to do next. Need fresh air.