Chelsea: We all live together and you know, I thought I knew everything but I had no idea
that they could like do flips and stuff on the trampoline.
So my mind was like absolutely blown
when we're at the video shoot and they're just like
like floating around everywhere.
And I am literally like I can barely even jump on the trampoline.
Chelsea: Trampoline was inspired when we are watching home videos of these two.
They were jumping on a trampoline at their grandma's farm.
And they're so cute because they're also in matching outfits.
We just thought of the line, 'I've been having dreams because it was a super grainy
video, had kind of like a dreamlike to it.
That line kind of came first and then we went from there.
Spencer: Watching the footage of Max and I jumping on the trampoline gives us such like
a warm feeling.
Max: We never thought that just a memory that we had would spark a song that had such an
impact.
Chelsea: If you look at the song as a story, it starts out where this person is having
dream and it's, it's very beautiful.
Jumping on a trampoline is such a fun thing that you do no matter what age you are, and
it's just kind of like again jumping and then Alice falling down the rabbit hole where she's
kind of suspended in this, you know, takes a turn for the worst right when she falls
down.
Spencer: The lyric 'flames alight, the trees spread to falling leaves.'
We had just moved into a house and we were sitting on our back porch and the leaves were
falling and it was actually like a really peaceful thing at the time, but to imagine
a situation where the leaves were coming down on you and they were actually on fire.
Max: I feel like there's times in your life where everything feels super peaceful and
things are going great and then something can happen that just like totally changes
the trajectory of your life.
Chelsea: Just being a musician in general is such a crazy and nutso life.
We can be having the best time, we can be having success, but you know, you're still
stressed and you still have those moments where you're like, ‘what are we going to
do about this and this?'
No matter what's happening around us, we can still inside feel very upset, very nervous,
very stressed out.
Chelsea: My dreams are always kind of a falling.
It's definitely not as beautiful and nice as the song kind of turns it out to be but
I feel like it's a lot of black hole vibes.
Alice in Wonderland, I go back to that a lot.
This song is empowering for me.
So it’s not only trying to make it empowering for our fans and for people who listen, but
for me as well.
It makes me feel better about the whole concept.
Max: That's like the anthemic line of the song.
When we're performing live people, they scream that line.
It's just a weird concept.
Spencer: So many people struggle with that fear of dying, and I think just to flip it
on its head and kind of, you know, approach it in this way where like you can actually
find peace with that is like a cool thing that we've been able to share with people.
Spencer: In the second verse, this character is fully embracing all the things that terrify
them.
Chelsea: We were writing the lyrics outside.
There's so many nostalgic moments in this song.
You know, when I think of me as a kid playing outside in the summer, there was a creek in
our neighborhood that we would just go and with all of our friends and kind of splash
around and hang out and we had no worries or cares in the world.
Chelsea: Feeling cold and feeling like lifeless would still, you feel right at home, you know,
you have again embraced it.
Max: There's this imagery of you floating in this stream then you turn to ice and then
all of a sudden you kind of zoom out and then you're, you're, you're a solid block of gold.
It's just kind of running with this really crazy dream that just keeps changing.
Spencer: When you think about yourself after you die, you think of your body just underground.
When you think of it as a solid block of gold, it once again just flips it on its head where
this person is no longer afraid of them.
You know, their body and the ground.
It's like, no, it's really just, it's like a solid block of gold.
Whistling
Max: Chelsea can't really whistle.
Chelsea: Absolutely not.
I cannot whistle at all.
And I'm sucking in, which sounds even weirder instead of blowing out so…
Whistling
- It's horrible. - We didn't even try to track it.