- This needs to feel very simple
and just straight like a vibe.
It just needs to feel like,
it just needed to have this intimacy about it, set the tone.
That's the first thing that you do;
when you're in a room and you're comfortable with somebody,
or even when you're comfortable with yourself,
everything is about the tone of the room, you know?
The song started in my room,
and I was just playing guitar one night,
and I came up with these chords,
and then I made a voice memo of the chords.
And then I sent them to DJ Camper and Flip, the producers,
and they were like, "Oh, this is dope,"
and we went into the studio the next day.
When I was working with Ant Clemons,
who's a really good friend of mine,
a really, really dope writer and we were just talking,
and I was like, "Oh, I had these chords;
"I don't know if you vibe with them or whatever,"
and I started playing them, and he was like,
"Oh, this feels cozy, you're a vibe right now
"playing guitar to me."
We were kind of in a dim room in the studio,
and we both were like, "Oh, this feels comfortable."
When you think about being in a room alone with somebody,
or even alone with yourself, and it's just quiet,
it's just silence, and you're just toning everything down,
you're just winding down, you notice your breath,
especially when it's with somebody else.
You kind of start to build intensity from slow breathing,
and I feel like that's exactly
what we were trying to paint the picture of.
It's not intense yet,
but you can just feel something coming,
and I think that anxiousness is there.
To me, meditating is a bunch of things.
I do like to take a second and just breathe.
That sometimes gets me back to me, and makes me calm,
and makes me just a little bit less emotional
or less in a mood, and more just in touch
with what's going on in the room,
what's going on with myself, so I do try to breathe a lot,
but when you're meditating in a room with somebody,
it's almost like you're thinking on what's going to happen,
or you're kind of meditating and taking everything in,
and I think that's what it was, it was like meditate,
like let's just breathe and take a second,
and start to get to know the space
and get to know each other.
What?
I'm not sharing that.
No, I'm just kidding.
What does it take for me to lose it?
I don't know until somebody makes me lose it.
No, I think it's just the anxiousness,
like you can tell when I'm anxious,
and not many people get to see that side of me,
and I think that's really what it is,
is like when I get around you, I lose it,
because nobody else gets to see that,
nobody else gets to see that,
and, you know, "Lay your head on my pillow,"
it's like I'm inviting you into this space,
like I'm very closed off, I'm very private,
I'm very selective, and so when you do get
to be in that space and I allow you to be in that space,
it's like, "Look at what you do to me,"
you know, I just lose it, I can't control myself,
I can't control my body language, it's written all over me.
It's a rare thing that I'm really comfortable with somebody,
and so, you know, it starts there,
and I think what makes me comfortable
is just familiarity, it's like I have to know the person
and I have to get to know somebody,
I really have to know you and I have
to feel like you know me,
because it's so hard for me to let down my guard so fast.
The second verse, you get closer to that moment,
you get closer to being even more comfortable,
you get closer to that intensity,
and this song is so intimate, and even the guitar.
We actually kept the original guitar from my voice note,
and there's something about a raw recording
and the texture of it, and so his voice is different,
and it's a male voice, so putting that texture
underneath mine along with the guitar
and even when the drums come in,
it just took it to a whole other place,
and I felt like my voice
would've been either too sweet on it,
like you had to feel that other perspective,
you had to feel that other energy on the track so you
can almost just see it in your head and experience it.
The way I'm touching you, I know it's okay with you,
because now we know each other,
you know, it's more than you just getting to know me,
now I've gotten to know you and what you like
and what you're comfortable with.
I guess I'm loyal, you know, I'm loyal.
I'm loyal to the soil.
I'm very selective, like I said,
I'm very particular with who I allow into my space,
who gets to see certain sides of me,
and it's really that.
It's like I'm all in or nothing,
and I'm not loving anybody like this.
I'm not loving anybody like this, you know, but you.