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“Dave’s Song” is the story of a 350 pound man that used to visit the band at their apartment disguised as a love song.

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“The Bride’s Dad” is written from the point of view of a deadbeat father giving a speech at his daughter’s wedding. As if he weren’t nervous enough, he can tell that the crowd is judging him for leaving his family and for his disheveled appearance. All would be lost if not for the glimmer of a smile he catches on his daughter’s face as he’s being carried out from the wedding after the speech.

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A hip hop first – Mac claims this girl gives such good “brain” (slang for a blowjob) that she must be an intelligent person.

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This is likely a callback to three previous Mac songs: Blue Slide Park’s “Under The Weather”, “ROS,” and Mac’s collab with Vince Staples, “Rain”.

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The phrase “snuck away” changes the tone of the song. Suggesting that the golden days weren’t snatched away by a fight but slipped away as the spark faded out presents time as the enemy: not the ex.

That’s why the narrator yearns for the golden days so strongly. It isn’t nostalgia for the only good part of a doomed relationship, he truly feels that if he paid closer attention he could have prevented the golden days from sneaking away. The despair over ruining a relationship that could have worked and the sliver of optimism that they can still return to the golden days are melded to create the song’s cheerfully melancholy tone that is perfectly Whitney.

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Stefan explained how this line addressed the main conflict on the album for Faster Louder:

[This line] really sums up my past few years, and maybe my whole life. I always thought that if I could just be in a touring band, I’d be a happy person. And yeah, I love what I do. But I’ve realized that doing something you love doesn’t really change the kind of person you are – if you’re unhappy or anxious, it doesn’t fix the problem, it just distracts you from it for a bit.

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“The Coast” is based off of an old Inuit story called “A Promise Is A Promise” about a girl who gets grabbed through a frozen lake by monsters, called Qallupilluit who force her to live with them for the rest of her life. The story was told to Inuit children to teach them to be wary of thin ice.

Stefan’s parents read it to him when he was five years old and was pretty traumatized by it.

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The intro is sampled from the Joan Baez song “Queen of Hearts”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMN_Eh4LYok

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“Sticks and Stones” plays off the idiom “sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me” to dismiss anyone that has nasty words for Jamie. Originally appearing on the Sticks ‘n’ Stones EP, this track was the lead single on Jamie’s second album Kings & Queens.

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“Jay” is short for Jamie – Jamie T is a character in this story and speaks in the first person. This story isn’t a real depiction of his life, however, he’s simply making a Hitchock/Tarantino-esque cameo in the universe he created.

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