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In a 2013 interview, Robert Lamm said he composed "25 or 6 to 4" on a 12-string guitar with only 10 strings. According to Lamm, "It didn't have the two low Es." He wrote the lyrics in one day.
The band first rehearsed the song at the Whisky a Go Go.
Lamm said the song is about trying to write a song in the middle of the night.
The song's title is the time at which the song is set: 25 or 26 minutes before 4 a.m.,
phrased as, "twenty-five or [twenty-]six [minutes] to four [o’clock]