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Lyrics of If I Get High - Track by Track by Nothing But Thieves
verse
'If I Get High' came about really really quickly in a room
We'd actually been recording another song
That turned into nothing in the end
We just got bored of it, it wasn't very good
And Dom just came up with the intro riff and
I already had most of the lyrics done
Written already for this past song
So the whole song I think was written in, what?
30 minutes? An hour?
verse
Yeah, it was less than an hour, wasn't it?
It was one of those things where we kinda become
A little bit lost in ourselves in the previous song we had written and
I remember just playing it, not thinking much of it
But were kinda captured by it
And when you can't stop playing something and listening to it
You know there's something worth working on
verse
And I think the lyrics formed the melody for that song (yeah, they did)
There isn't a formula to the way we write the songs
So it was again, quite natural
The way the song structurally built up just felt right
We all kinda were just suggesting the same thing
It was unspoken how the song formed, if that makes sense?
verse
Yeah, it was a real weird magic moment at the end
When we went towards this bridge
It's quite a long-noted bridge, that I sing
I remember the boys being like, "Just get on the mic and do something"
And in the end coming off of the mic and I turn around and
They were just all like, "That's exactly what we were both thinking"
It was weird, a nice little moment
verse
This is one of the songs where
We'd recorded the demo in the garage, back in Essex
And trying to re-create, re-record
And re-play the parts during the creation of the album
Wasn't quite capturing what we first got from the demo
So we made a conscious decision to just rip out the whole rhythm
verse
My whole guitar part, just take it all out, put it into the session
And even to some extent take some of Conor's vocals
And some of the weird sonics that were in there
Because we didn't want to lose what was special about it
We could listen to the demo and think
"Ok this completely embodies the idea"
And there is a risk of losing that I think if you scrap it and start again
verse
I'm always really grateful for this song because
Sometimes gigs don't always go your way
And the crowd don't relate to you in a way that you want or
I mean whatever but
We play this song and it always seems to turn the show around for us
verse
Yeah, it's definitely a turning point and it offers a little bit of-
A rest bite from the rest of the set
Yeah, that's it, is it?
It's kind of like a breath and it breaks up nicely but naturally
It's not like we've just sort of thrown it in there
And it would stick out like a sore thumb
Writer(s): Dominic Craik, Joseph Langridge-brown, Conor Mason
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Nothing But Thieves (Track by Track)
Album • 2015 • 32 tracks
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If I Get High - Track by Track
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