Adam Young reveals the instrumental for “Vitamin Sea” after introducing the instrumental for “Adam, Check Please” in the pre-recorded live stream. He said on the commentary:

And this last song is called “Vitamin Sea,” it’s about the everyday kind of hustle of normal life just has its crazy way of getting heavy over time and it weighs in my shoulder like it can get crazy and it’s just about those moments when I realize that this is going on. I realize I’m running out in fumes and look at myself in the mirror and I just go, “Whoa, I need a break right now.”

A vacation to me can mean almost anything and it can be almost everywhere. But I think maybe my favourite scenario in this case is one where I’m sitting back and I’m relaxing by the ocean. I’ve been really fascinated by the ocean for as long as I can remember. I’ve written a lot of songs about it, so all I need to be happy like I can forget my troubles, I can decompress and I can unwind. I just need some sunglasses and a chair on the beach.

When I was writing this song, I was imagining that a vacation could be something like a daily supplement, something you could take in a capsule, in the morning like a vitamin but something that you could also be a deficient in. It’s taking me a lot of years but I’ve figured out that I really need to check in with myself every so often and figure out on how to de-stress because if I don’t, I feel like I’m gonna explode.

I found myself in Hawaii for the first time and I was blown away, back when I was 10 years old, I got a Nintendo 64 game for Christmas called Wave Race 64. It says jet ski racing game and instilled a fascination of the ocean in me especially tropical settings because it was so different than I where I was from. When I made it to Hawaii years later, I remember immediately off the plane feeling like I was in a paradise that I’d only experienced in the video game like it just become real to me. I was 22 years old, I was walking down the sidewalk toward Waikiki Beach in Honolulu. A place I’d never imagined that I would have opportunity to visit. I passed by a Burger King and what did I hear playing out of the overhead speakers? “Vanilla Twilight” by Owl City and I just felt so grateful and blown away and it was yet another magic moment.

That’s “Vitamin Sea”. I admit that I’m kind of a workaholic so when I get into something, I really get into it and it’s tough to pry me away from it. It took me a long time to figure that out and no matter how fulfilling whatever I’m working on is to me. Sometimes I just want to lay that down and go somewhere else, somewhere that I can just exhale for a while. The nice thing is that I can do that really anywhere, but again, maybe my favourite place in the world is on a beach in Hawaii where the only thing there is to worry about is my tan line.