LYRICS:
Lazy days I miss the most,
Talk to you still just like a ghost
Open arms with charms and smiling eyes
Sometimes I see you on the passenger side
You’re just a sea away – South across the waves so grey
You’re not all I see – Cos now Im turning corners and those corners lead to empty streets
Feel the wind on your face
Sun chasing shadows away
Trust the process, take the day
Words that you wont here my dear, if you wanted to then you would be here
Say hey ho! Lets go and give it up – I don’t want this feeling I’m giving up
Don’t say that you’re down for pretending, I take this as a perfect ending
Say hey ho! Lets go and give it up – I don’t want this feeling I’m giving up
Don’t say that you’re down for pretending, I take this as a perfect ending
Perfect Ending:
This track is all about the choruses - everything builds towards them. That being said, the chorus lyrics were the last to arrive and it wasnt until I had the 'say hey ho' bit pinned down that it shaped the rest of the line - inspired by late Blink182 - I felt like that line was something you'd find on their self titled album. I recorded the backing vocals in my bathroom - shouting them through the doorway into the tiled chamber to get a good echo and boost the emotional resonance of the end of the song. The verses were much more difficult - they're a Frankenstein's monster really - off cuts and ideas that hadnt found a home but shared the same topic - thats why they're a mix of more vaugue and metaphorical lines, with some very specific sentences - its collage of different lines, but they all build towards the chorus which is what this song is all about. Again I took inspiration from Early Blink 182 in terms of lyrical simplicity - Tom DeLongue describes his lyrics as nursery rhymes - and looking at the structures of verses in songs like 'Whats My Aga Again?' 'Anthem Pt. 2' and 'Aliens Exist' you can see it - really simple pairs of lines that rhyme, all minimalistic and simple - so this is what I copied for the verses in Perfect Ending.