HEY VANILLA

hey vanilla

you gonna give it gonna give it to me

hey vanilla

you're gonna give in you're gonna give in 

eventually

hey hey yeah vanilla

hey pretender

i never noticed never noticed you there

hey believe me

i know it isn't fair, love ain't never fair

hey hey yeah pretender

love is what it is

it gives and it gives

you live and you live

still it only brings you what you bring to it

love is what it is

it gives and it gives

you live and you live

still it only brings you what you bring to it

what you bring to it

hey patchouli

come and get it come and get it

hey patchouli

you won't regret it you won't regret it

hey hey yeah patchouli

love is what it is

it gives and it gives

you live and you live

still it only brings you what you bring to it

love is what it is

it gives and it gives

you live and you live

still it only brings you what you bring to it

still it only brings you what you bring to it

still it only brings you what you bring to it

music & lyrics by astrid young © SOCAN

vocals: astrid

guitars: joe gore

bass: astrid

drums & percussion: victor delorenzo

studio:

robot recording, san francisco

engineered & mixed by: travis kasperbauer

produced by: victor delorenzo

mastered by joao Carvalho

it all started with a bass line. that's the truth of it. i'd been messing around with this bass line for a while, and had jammed it out with a multitude of drummers (okay, maybe just one or two before victor), and i really saw it as a heavy song ... as in, metal-ish, or probably stoner-ish, more to the point. the inspiration was a friend of mine, and we all have a few of them ... the ones who think they're pretty wild, but in actuality they're pretty middle of the road ... nothing wrong with that, per se. so this friend, in stretching his boundaries and trying out some things that may have seemed a bit 'wild' to him in theory, found himself to be in possession of qualities he did not know he had. little did he know that these things had been in practice for perhaps centuries before he discovered them. the moral of the story is: if it feels good, it's not weird. and you're only too old/young/inexperienced/afraid if you want to be that way. just do it. do it now.

so it became kind of a t-rex vibe in the studio, mostly driven by joe's interpretation of the riff. i love what he did, there's a resonator track in there, and the harmony lead kind of comes out of nowhere - it's such a surprise, and even to us at the time it was so. joe gore is a fucking genius. nuff said.