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Five years ago today we released Yikes! While Dollar Signs existed before that record Yikes! is the moment we really solidify ourselves as a band. This record was when I started to learn how to write music with my best friends.
We spent so much time in the living room of the house Arion and I were renting; writing and rewriting and arguing and sweating, just trying to ramshackle some kind thing that felt coherent. It sort of worked?
Playing shows, touring and all that is of course an absolute pleasure but to me the best part of being in a band is standing in a cramped room, sharing a fledgling idea that your friends then take and turn into real, actual music. We got to record this in our “home away from home”, The Milestone, here in Charlotte with our friends Dane Abernathy and Jonathan Hughes. Everytime I listen to this record I think of Jon saying something snarky one second after the recording stopped.
I’ll also think about touring around the east coast as a full band driven by Charlotte legend Johnny Moss and watching him drink a half gallon of milk in some gross hotel. I’ll think about all the house shows, DIY spaces, and dives we got to play in, sometimes to few people, sometimes to people who would yell “And if Kanye West feels alone sometimes, what hope do I have?” with me.
Showing up up to a town we’ve never been to and having people sing our songs with us will always be surreal and I’m so lucky that people connected with this weird little thing enough to know the words to it (and dear god I can’t wait to do it again). Anyway, thank you so much for listening, thank you for sticking with us since that record and thank you for listening to I Hope I Don’t F*ck This Up enough on Spotify to pay for our many, many van repairs. This is the original demo, and it’s up for free now on our bandcamp (link in bio).
~Erik
lyrics
I wanted to dedicate a song to you
But all of my songs are about ex-girlfriends and puke
So I sat down to write you a love song
It was full of clichés
It wasn't impressing anyone
Even though I tried really hard
All I came up with was
"You are a opossum living in the trashcan of my heart
You're a opossum in my heart"
I'm sorry I left that towel on the floor
So sorry that I snore
Sorry I'm taking my band on tour
Sorry that I'm insecure
Sorry I'm awkward around your friends
Sorry I get jealous when you talk to other men
Sorry I drank all your wine again
Sorry I apologize so much
Yeah, I hope that I don't fuck this up
Yeah, I hope that I don't fuck this up
Yeah, I hope that I don't fuck this up
And she said
"Don't be so hard on yourself
You fucking idiot, I don't need anybody else
You stupid asshole, I'm for you
And you are for me
But you've gotta get over your insecurities!"
And that's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me
So I tried to reciprocate with something romantic and sweet
When I got home I thought of the perfect thing to say
But of course in that moment, it didn't happen that way
I just held your hand and looked you in the eyes and I said
"You're pretty rad too, dude
You're pretty rad too, dude
You're pretty rad too, dude
You're pretty rad.
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fell into Days n' Daze when I was travelling, thanks to some of my road dogs. I don't have that freedom anymore but I feel a piece of it Everytime I listen to their music. love y'all! thefool309
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