Primitive chords by The Bangles

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Verse 1
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No, no one's asking us
about music.
They're only asking
us about sex and drugs.
No rock and roll, just sex
and drugs.
They don't seem to care about
music at all.
Not really, because we were
touring most of the time.
That's what took the time.
And we did take the time
to make this album
in a more relaxed manner.
It's going to roll.
We had more, um...
We gave ourselves
about 100 months to write.
Well, we were trying to write
when we on the road,
and then we gave ourselves like four
months
to get material together.
We had to make a conscious effort
to stop to like, saying, okay, it's time,
we thought we're coming out.
So, it's not like we've been working
on this album
for two years.
No, we were working
away in O 'Hara.
We weren't like building studios
and projecting like forest scenes
on the walls
and getting the ambiance just right
or anything like that.
We're just talking about
what we've heard a lot of bands.
We're still a very primitive kind of
garage band.
We really are. mean,
we're trying to like...
we're actually trying to be
like egotistical rock stars
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but we just don't know how I'm just kidding that's like where our organization is
very kind of rough -and -tumble shattered messy gypsy that's us
I think that's true
it's sort of dark
balancing out the light
because they're like also more positive
things on this record too
so it's just nice
to have both those elements in the record
it gives it more of an expansive feel
I agree I agree that there's that's why we called the
record everything because I think there is a wide range of emotions
that are expressed in the song from
very dark to very hopeful
to very hopeful and I know just speaking
from my own range
of the songs that I wrote
there's things about you know
total joyful in love in lust
kind of stuff like from in your room to like
real vulnerable stuff
like eternal flame and waiting for you
and then real sad,
real genuinely sad stuff like to set you free,
which is like, it's over,
there's nothing I can do,
short of begging or something,
but let you go, that
You just went a little
bit further
in both directions,
I can tell you straight away.
There's not as much silliness, maybe,
as something like walks in Egyptian,
but there's...
But there's...
Maybe we went a little bit deeper.
I didn't really think about it that way,
I mean, we're not on the record.
Well, see, I think anything that...
But that's good,
because then you'll like it longer.
I think anything that touches on
a common human experience
is going to connect
with people.
Whether it's on a really superficial level,
like something like Manic Monday,
which is just sort of the work -a -day world,
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or if it's something a little deeper,
like something to believe in,
which is, you know, guarded
optimism
about a new relationship.
You
I think there are a lot of
people out there
who have experienced that before.
You know, I've already had
people come up to me
and said, you know, Oh my God, Crash and Burn, I felt like it so many times,
you know, how did you know? you know,
but these,
I feel like that every morning,
you know, I'm like, oh God.
You know, it's important that
we connect on a human level.