♪ Lucky I'm in love with my best friend ♪
♪ Lucky to have been where I have been ♪
♪ Lucky to be coming home again ♪
♪ With you ♪
♪ You ♪
On the particular week that I wrote "Lucky,"
simultaneously what was happening in my life
was I had discovered the music of Colbie Caillat,
and I really loved "Bubbly," "Capri,"
some of her earlier songs off her first record.
And I thought, "Wow, there's a similar vibe here,
and we're from similar beach communities.
I wonder if she'd ever be down to collab."
Well, I mentioned it to my manager.
Next thing you know, I've got Colbie Caillat's phone number
and we're on the phone.
And I said exactly that, "Hey, it'd be great to collab.
I've got some ideas."
She said, "Great, send 'em over."
I hung up the phone.
I said, "Oh my gosh, I have no idea what I'm gonna do."
But I came up with the first verse and the chorus.
♪ Do you hear me talking to you ♪
♪ across the water, across the deep blue ♪
And the song just sort of,
in a way it rolled off the tip of my tongue.
Because I write songs every week,
I allow myself to just go after my first instincts.
♪ I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend ♪
As soon as I said that phrase,
"I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend,"
I knew I had a title, "Lucky," and then I could just
play around with that.
♪ Lucky to be coming home again ♪
Lucky, blah, blah, blah, lucky, lucky, lucky.
So I sent my verse and chorus to Colbie Caillat,
very excited, and I never heard from her.
And so I'm in the middle of making my record
and I take a little break
and Colbie Caillat's playing in town.
I thought "Wow, I'm gonna go finally meet her
and just say hi
and maybe find out whatever happened
to that song I sent.
I go backstage.
No one's mentioning a thing about the song I sent her.
And as I'm leaving, I said, "Did you ever,
did anything ever happen to that song idea I sent you?"
She goes, "Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let me introduce you to Tim, he's my guitar player.
He and I've actually been working on it."
I was like, "Oh my gosh, this is so exciting."
So they start playing the song
and I hear my verse and I hear my chorus
but then it continues with a Colbie verse, which she wrote,
and then it continues with a bridge,
which Tim and Colbie were developing.
♪ They don't know how long it takes ♪
And I am crying.
I'm backstage and now I'm shy.
And I'm just sitting there
just trying to hold it all together.
And I went back to the studio
and I played this dressing room demo
that the three of us had sort of arrived at,
and I made the whole track leaving space for her.
♪ Do you hear me, talking to you ♪
At the very, very end of the record,
right before mixing, Colbie and I got together
in LA and we recorded our vocals together.
♪ I wish we had one more kiss ♪
♪ I'll wait for you, I promise you ♪
- And we even made our music video in the same way.
I was making a video with the same director
that she was making a video with,
so while we were making those videos,
we put in a few extra hours to record
other content with this director,
and then that director weaved it together
to make our own music video.
♪ So I'm sailing through the sea ♪
♪ To an island where we'll meet ♪
- It's a song that I sing every night.
It's a song that's in Colbie's show every night.
It's a song that's in Tim Fagan's show.
And I'm so grateful to Colbie Caillat and Tim Fagan
for taking my little song idea and really turning it
into the beautiful duet that it became.