![]() This song is basically about a typical guy’s dream. It’s meant to be her boyfriend speaking to her, telling her that he is still watching over her and that he will love her forever. This was one of the most shocking and heartbreaking things I’d ever heard. She told me that she just wanted to thank us for being a part of their lives. She told me that he held her hand for the first time at our one of our shows. I wrote a great deal of these lyrics after a young fan had explained to me that her boyfriend had just recently died in a car accident. My friend Dave Yaden played all the keys on this record, as well as on, and that took everything to the next level. We threw it right in the middle of the album as a sort of a breath of fresh air. We wanted to challenge ourselves with this song and make it as different as possible from the rest of the album. I wrote the piano parts in my living room at home in San Diego. We all need our friends to be there for us and help us out during hard times. This is about my ex-girlfriend trying to stay in close contact with my friends even after we had broken up. It’s completely crazy and extreme, but it’s also comforting to say out loud the things you’re thinking sometimes. A lot of it is written almost like a suicide note meant to be found by the one you love. It’s about being obsessed with someone to the point where you’re hurting yourself. Lyrically, this song is one of the darkest I’ve ever written. I’ve always been obsessed with happy songs that have morbid lyrics. We used a lot of the original sounds from my ghetto little recording on the album. I recorded the intro to this song in our apartment in L.A. A lot of the lyrics are about that night. I remember making out with her in the dark in the middle of her empty carpeted floor. I went to her place once and it was completely empty because she was in the process of moving into another apartment. She was beautiful, but didn’t know it because she was from a small town. I used to drive six hours just to see this girl that I liked. I like the music because it has a hint of Michael Jackson influence. This song deals with human nature and our selfish tendencies. The theme of this album talks about these natural thoughts and feelings to want and take–the desire to be in love and the desperation for someone else to love you. This is a very selfish song that basically says, “If I can’t have you, then no one can.” I think this has gone through everyone’s head at least a couple times in their life. That collaboration makes the songs very special to me. One of my favorite things to do is make music with my friends. It turned out to be one of my favorite tracks once we collaborated. A few weeks after I wrote the song, I approached Jeremy with the idea and he agreed to sing on the album. When I wrote the music for the chorus, I knew right away that I wanted to ask my friend Jeremy McKinnon to do the screaming parts on the chorus and bridge. After a while, it made me miss her, and I wondered why we ever broke up in the first place. ![]() It was basically just a bunch of stuff that kept reminding me of her. The last time I saw my ex-girlfriend, she left all kinds of random things behind at my house: travel shampoo, a razor in the shower, hair clips, etc. Musically it’s the craziest, most intense song we’ve ever written. It’s about obsession and desperation, and the stupid things you do when you’re in love. The lyrics talk about an unhealthy co-dependent relationship in which I couldn’t live without the other person because if you took her away, I would lose half of myself. Mike is the fastest single kick drum player I’ve ever seen, so this song features him in all his glory. It’s almost therapeutic for me to play, because it represents everything that we loved playing as kids. The entire thing is punk beats and super-fast guitar work. We went back to our SoCal punk roots for this song. We used a Stratocaster with a custom amp to get the glassy and unique sound we were looking for. The clean guitar tone is one of my favorite tones on the entire album. This short, little tune describes my unexplainable and undeniable recent obsession with Southern girls. This is basically just the intro to “The Boy Who Could Fly.” We decided to separate the tracks because otherwise, the song would be around six minutes long. It ends with her wanting to kill me for all the stuff I’ve put her through. I wanted to write it from her perspective to try and understand what she was going through at the time. It’s meant to be her speaking to me, asking me why I’m not satisfied with what we had. Lyrically, it’s about my dysfunctional relationship with a girl I couldn’t stop hurting over and over again. We always try to incorporate at least a hint of Latin influence in every song, but with this one, we just went all the way with it. This song very openly features the Spanish side of Pierce The Veil’s music.
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