I love when I can come out with a song
that lyrically makes me feel really good,
and on top of that just sonically and melodically,
really poetic and has lots of imagery,
all of those things combined I think is what makes it
one of my favorite songs that I've ever been a part of.
I remember just seeing something about a coffee cup
and something about missing somebody,
and I always wanted to write a song called coffee, too.
It was always just like a little thing
in the back of my head,
like that would be a cool song title.
So I just kinda jotted some ideas down based on that.
All of us kind of got into a room and I just literally said,
"Hey, what if we wrote a song called coffee,"
and we just sort of wrote down all these different
imagery lines and just wanted to make it feel really poetic.
I ended up taking the song and just stripping it down
and making it just me and a guitar.
Just something about the intro, how it's just my vocal,
and there's a flow to it.
It makes me feel like I'm floating,
and I felt like it would be a cool way
just to open the album with it.
It was really fun because we got to just play with the idea
of when you're missing somebody,
you kinda feel a little bit crazy.
This song for me is about missing my now husband.
At the time we were dating.
It was hard 'cause he was all the way in Germany
and I was just like traveling everywhere.
Oh, I'm starting to miss you so bad that I'm missing...
I'm jealous of people who are near you
and I'm even jealous of objects
that are near you at this point
'cause your coffee gets to see you
more than I do, and that sucks.
Yeah, at the end of the day, it was like how many things
can we compare this feeling of this longing for somebody?
How many different objects can we throw in
and kind of like play with that?
That line is kind of a direct connection
to me and my now husband.
When we were dating, he was in Germany,
there was a literal ocean in between us,
so that was kind of a cool line to throw in.
It just made it a little more personal.
Yeah, it's crazy even performing this song live.
It's like I do kind of go back into that mode
of like, wow, we were like legit long distance,
like this was wild.
And we didn't know when the next time is
that we were gonna see each other.
We didn't have any plans sometimes.
It would just be like, okay, bye,
and then I have no idea when the next time is gonna be.
So I'm glad that chapter is over.
That line is just me complaining, I guess,
of like throwing a fit, like this is unfair, I'm over this.
Anytime I feel an emotion strongly,
I usually internalize and just get into music mode.
It's not even like, oh, I'm jealous of that girl,
or I'm jealous in a mean way,
but more, just like they get to be with you.
I wish I was taking part in that, too,
or they're experiencing something
that's new and fun and exciting,
and oh, I would love to experience that with you.
So it's more like anyone who is around them
or anything really is just like, yeah, I'm jealous of that.
We all, I think, started with a list.
I think once the coffee idea was out there
and we kinda got that line down,
it was like, okay, then what other things can we do here
that's kind of in that same lane?
So something that's close to him,
so clothes are obviously literally on you,
the air that touches you,
anything that you would wanna trade places with.
That's the fun way to write a song, really.
I did that on a couple other songs on the album
where it was like, okay, this line is really strong,
let's try and match it with these other lines,
and then we have all this imagery.
What I need is, I'm very needy,
what I'm referring to in the song
I think is just simple things, just wanting,
needing their time and needing their love and affection
and just their presence, their physical presence,
being near you and just being intimate with somebody,
emotionally even, just having that I think
is important in a relationship.
Yeah, it's what I need.