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Things are shaping up to be pretty [Bb] odd.
Little Dutch [Gm] the musical bad.
[F] All right, so we're so starving.
Yeah, we wrote it [Bb] in Ryan's kitchen at his old house.
We [C] were all standing around.
He had the line.
And it seemed like the one song that, at least as an [Dm] introduction to the record,
it kind of [Cm] sums up a lot of the themes on the record.
When [G] we were writing the song [Gm] that night,
no one knew what time it was.
Somebody said [Cm] that, and we thought it was kind of [C] funny.
We didn't have any windows in our practice space.
We were in there for like [Ab] eight hours or something.
We got there, you know, around noon.
Yeah, [Bb] we were pretty much on a different planet, [Dm] you know what I mean?
[C] She's a Handsome Woman is a quote that [Dm] our producer Rob Mathis [Cm] used.
That's how he [Bb] explained the pretty girl.
It was like the second song we wrote, and we were all [Cm] happy about nine in the afternoon.
So we [Bb] decided to celebrate.
[Ab] We were out in Ryan's backyard, and I just remember it was like 80 [Dm] degrees.
We're just kind of hanging out and playing guitar.
It's all about the weather.
It's all about the weather.
Things [E] have changed [Bb] for me, and that's [Gm] okay.
So that Green [Cm] Gentleman, next single, as you were saying, and the [F] video's done.
C [Bb] Major.
I played C Major, and [Gm] that was the first thing.
We started playing on the drums, and then four hours later, the songs.
That [C] one and Nine in the Afternoon were the two that we did as a whole band,
playing and [Gm] just kind of trying to play something that felt good.
[F] One night when we were writing another [Bb] song, I was just playing something on guitar,
and we were all just kind of playing and making up lyrics to it.
It's just a [Dm] fun thing.
So it just kind of [C] became like a ditty.
Like, hey, so you can throw it on the album.
I was like, all right, [A] sure, thanks.
[Gm] So that was one of [Bb] the two songs that I got to throw on there.
One of the pretty songs, I [Cm] think, on the record is Northern Downpour.
[Gm] John wrote the melody for the verse, and I loved it, and Scott Forbes did also.
He kept wanting to change it, and I didn't want him to change it,
so I wrote the lyrics really fast, and he couldn't change [A] it.
The next day, he came in, and I was [Gm] like, okay, I got it.
When the [Eb] day met the night, [Bb] this is one that's got strings on it, it's got horns on it.
We were just not able to on the first [Gm] album,
but some of these songs we felt needed that stuff to really come across the right way.
The last section that goes for about a minute at the end,
it's kind of just improv [Bb] on one of the first takes we were playing together,
and I just kept going.
I never really [D] have done anything like that before.
[A] [D] We came home one night and ended up writing a whole song
[D] that was a bunch of different parts.
That song is [Bb] actually, the Pate a Cheval [D] is probably about half of that song.
So we mixed up some of the parts and redid some stuff,
and we started playing it with the rest of the guys that [Dm] turned into [G] that.
The Vienna was something I don't [A] know,
kind of another Sgt.
[Gb] Pepperish fantastical kind of [A] thing, I would say.
I think that's one of the most [Db] experimental [Gbm] songs on the album,
which is the [D] chorus.
[Dm] [A] Behind the scene, I have to look at Mr.
Roth,
because [Gbm] this is lead vocal for you.
Yeah, well I used to sing lead [G] before Brennan [Dm] was in the band.
And then even when I joined.
Yeah.
[C] For a little bit, yeah.
Yeah, [Db]
that was really cool.
I walked in [Gb] one day and these guys were talking about the song.
[A]
Him and Rob were sitting there and [D] they said,
why don't you try to sing this?
Nothing [Em] really matters [A] except for me [G] and you.
Yeah, it was supposed to be just [C] like a really simple number
with just words that are easily associated, you know, [F] not difficult.
Very nostalgic.
Very classic, nostalgic [C] words.
Yeah, that's me and [G] Fiddle.
Don't unfiddle.
Fiddle debut.
Yeah, that's [F] awesome.
I didn't play Fiddle.
[C] She Had the World.
[G] That was one of the ones that took the longest to [Gbm] finish.
Just ended up being a lot cooler than I thought.
[Gb]
We had like a [G] harpsichord and some really beautiful orchestration
that [E] Rob arranged.
From [D] a mountain in the middle of the cabin.
It's kind of like an outro to the whole theme of the record,
[Am] but it isn't the last [C] song.
It kind of feels like it's like
[Ab]
And the album does end on, as I said earlier,
[Gb] I think one of my favorite songs is Mad as Rabbits.
[Db] Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Okay, we're rolling.
[Ab] Don't save me from [Bb] walking off a [Fm] window sill
Or I'll sleep in the [Ab] rain
We basically just spent a whole Saturday,
it was like the last [G] week we were in the studio.
Brendan was on bass, I was playing guitar,
and we were all just
We played the song until we were happy with it pretty much.
I think it feels most like the [Abm] band at this point.
It's like me and [C] Brendan sing back and forth
and everyone's doing backup vocals on it.
It was definitely like the most group sounding.
The last refrain, the reinvent love thing,
kind of just [Ab] summed up the whole process.
[Bb] [Db]
Nail.
[G] Hey!
Are we done?
[N]
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Things are shaping up to be pretty [Bb] odd.
Little Dutch [Gm] the musical bad.
[F] All right, so we're so starving.
Yeah, we wrote it [Bb] in Ryan's kitchen at his old house.
We [C] were all standing around.
He had the line.
And it seemed like the one song that, at least as an [Dm] introduction to the record,
it kind of [Cm] sums up a lot of the themes on the record.
When [G] we were writing the song [Gm] that night,
no one knew what time it was.
Somebody said [Cm] that, and we thought it was kind of [C] funny.
We didn't have any windows in our practice space.
We were in there for like [Ab] eight hours or something.
We got there, you know, around noon.
Yeah, [Bb] we were pretty much on a different planet, [Dm] you know what I mean?
[C] She's a Handsome Woman is a quote that [Dm] our producer Rob Mathis [Cm] used.
That's how he [Bb] explained the pretty girl.
It _ was like the second song we wrote, and we were all [Cm] happy about nine in the afternoon.
So we [Bb] decided to celebrate.
_ [Ab] We were out in Ryan's backyard, and I just remember it was like 80 [Dm] degrees.
We're just kind of hanging out and playing guitar.
It's all about the weather.
It's all about the weather.
Things [E] have changed [Bb] for me, and that's [Gm] okay.
So that Green [Cm] Gentleman, next single, as you were saying, and the [F] video's done.
C [Bb] Major.
I played C Major, and [Gm] that was the first thing.
We started playing on the drums, and then four hours later, the songs.
That [C] one and Nine in the Afternoon were the two that we did as a whole band,
playing and [Gm] just kind of trying to play something that felt good.
[F] One night when we were writing another [Bb] song, I was just playing something on guitar,
and we were all just kind of playing and making up lyrics to it.
It's just a [Dm] fun thing.
So it just kind of [C] became like a ditty.
Like, hey, so you can throw it on the album.
I was like, all right, [A] sure, thanks.
[Gm] So that was one of [Bb] the two songs that I got to throw on there.
One of the pretty songs, I [Cm] think, on the record is Northern Downpour.
[Gm] John wrote the melody for the verse, and I loved it, and Scott Forbes did also.
He kept wanting to change it, and I didn't want him to change it,
so I wrote the lyrics really fast, and he couldn't change [A] it.
The next day, he came in, and I was [Gm] like, okay, I got it.
When the [Eb] day met the night, [Bb] this is one that's got strings on it, it's got horns on it.
We were just not able to on the first [Gm] album,
but some of these songs we felt needed that stuff to really come across the right way.
The last section that goes for about a minute at the end,
it's kind of just improv [Bb] on one of the first takes we were playing together,
and I just kept going.
I never really [D] have done anything like that before.
_ [A] _ [D] We came home one night and ended up writing a whole song
[D] that was a bunch of different parts.
That song is [Bb] actually, the Pate a Cheval [D] is probably about half of that song.
So we mixed up some of the parts and redid some stuff,
and we started playing it with the rest of the guys that [Dm] turned into [G] that.
The Vienna was something I don't [A] know,
kind of another Sgt.
[Gb] Pepperish fantastical kind of [A] thing, I would say.
I think that's one of the most [Db] experimental [Gbm] songs on the album,
which is the [D] chorus.
[Dm] _ _ [A] _ _ Behind the scene, I have to look at Mr.
Roth,
because [Gbm] this is lead vocal for you.
Yeah, well I used to sing lead [G] before Brennan [Dm] was in the band.
And then even when I joined.
Yeah.
[C] For a little bit, yeah.
Yeah, [Db]
that was really cool.
I walked in [Gb] one day and these guys were talking about the song.
[A]
Him and Rob were sitting there and [D] they said,
why don't you try to sing this?
Nothing [Em] really matters [A] except for me [G] and you.
Yeah, it was supposed to be just [C] like a really simple number
with just words that are easily associated, you know, [F] not difficult.
Very nostalgic.
Very classic, nostalgic [C] words.
Yeah, that's me and [G] Fiddle.
Don't unfiddle.
Fiddle debut.
Yeah, that's [F] awesome.
I didn't play Fiddle.
[C] She Had the World.
[G] That was one of the ones that took the longest to [Gbm] finish.
Just ended up being a lot cooler than I thought.
_ [Gb]
We had like a [G] harpsichord and some really beautiful orchestration
that [E] Rob arranged.
From [D] a mountain in the middle of the cabin.
It's kind of like an outro to the whole theme of the record,
[Am] but it isn't the last [C] song.
It kind of feels like it's like_
[Ab] _ _ _
And the album does end on, as I said earlier,
[Gb] I think one of my favorite songs is Mad as Rabbits.
[Db] Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Okay, we're rolling.
[Ab] _ Don't save me from [Bb] walking off a [Fm] window sill
Or I'll sleep in the [Ab] rain
We basically just spent a whole Saturday,
it was like the last [G] week we were in the studio.
Brendan was on bass, I was playing guitar,
and we were all just_
We played the song until we were happy with it pretty much.
I think it feels most like the [Abm] band at this point.
It's like me and [C] Brendan sing back and forth
and everyone's doing backup vocals on it.
It was definitely like the most group sounding.
The last refrain, the reinvent love thing,
kind of just [Ab] summed up the whole process. _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ _
Nail.
[G] _ _ Hey!
Are we done?
[N] _

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