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I only wanna be with you lyrics twiggy8/31/2023 I actually wrote the chorus, “ I’ve been feeling sick in the California sun / I’ve been kinda sad in the California love / Didn’t mean to break your heart / At least you got one left”.I wrote that on the way to the airport. I used to spend quite a bit of time over there over the years, and it was just a moment in time. TWIGGY: I wrote this one originally about a little L.A heartbreak. But it almost was in the works for Flip Phone Fantasy, but we held it until we got it right. Twiggy had it for a long time before I got my hands on it and I begged him to use it. I think it’s heavy in a weird way, which is different for us. But with SEX DOPE GOLD, we just needed to have a bit of an upbeat banger that was kind of heavy - but not heavy. That’s the biggest thing with Ocean Grove : I might even interpret our own songs differently to the way that Dale sees the song’s meaning, or that Twiggy sees the songs playing out. SAM: I think the one thing we’ve always done, and Dale will probably tell you this too, is that we always leave lyrics open for interpretation as well. Lyrics are one thing I haven’t actually looked at for quite a while because we’ve been so busy with everything else. And a lot of the songs, the themes are very “current world”. Dale Tanner and I write lyrically just as much as each other throughout the album, bounce off each other. So, the rest of the song kind of wrote itself around that. But it just was an idea that had to get out - and we got it out! In that moment we knew it had to be a hook. And with my tone and my nasally vocal and stuff, it’s not necessarily that Nine Inch Nails-ey. It was more a melody that I had in my head, it was almost like Nine Inch Nails-ish, the feeling. We hit record, and on the first take we’re like: “yep, sick, that sounds good!”. But I said to Sam “let’s track this idea, I’ve got an idea in my head”. TWIGGY: I think that was a different day. We were trying to record, and they’re sitting there pissed as! And I’m like “shut up, we’re trying to record!”. SAM: And our girlfriends were drunk on the couch behind us (laughs). It was minutes before I left Sam’s place, and I was like: “Oi, oi, oi! Track this, track this!” And we kind of had this “on the spot” moment idea…it was right before I left Sam’s house. That was actually just something we were bouncing around on, and he’d had samples aside for a while. TWIGGY: We were playing around at Sam’s old studio with the riff, and the chorus and everything like that. SAM: SEX DOPE GOLD was new territory for us straight away, I don’t think we had explored necessarily in the past with a song that sounds like that. It kind of metaphorically oils everyone up to be ready for the rest of the album. We didn’t wanna just write a linear album, or have the same sound the whole way through, and I think FLAVA is a good way to start it off. Sometimes we’ve gotta change it up a little bit, just so that when we come back to that - which we will - it’s just so much more exciting. And that’s never going away either, that sound is just so fucking natural to us. It just had that pure OG energy - like, the classic sound. Definitely when we wrote it, we knew it had to be the opener. TWIGGY: Yeah, it’s kind of the SUPERSTAR from Flip Phone Fantasy of Up In The Air Forever, in a way. But I think that’s one a heavier Ocean Grove fan would enjoy. And our roots are really held up in nostalgic themes and sounds, and that sort of stuff. We always like to open our albums with something that feels kind of like… Kind of, I’d say a “comfortable” song, but I think it’s just a really cool opener. SAM BASSAL: I think FLAVA is probably the one song on the record, early on anyway, that feels pretty in touch with our roots.
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