Jesse

Track 5 on Vessel

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Jan. 11, 20181 viewer11.1K views

Jesse Lyrics

Me and Jesse stayed up ’til two
We talked about dreams, about things, about you
It felt like anything could be real or fake
Like our love is my world, but so is my heartache

And I knew
If I thought really hard about flying
I could probably do it
I’m just too tired for trying

I created a scorpion
And then had to kill it
Just like I loved you
And I had to will it

To end
‘Cause I bent the rules and I’m scary
My dream
Is to see the world that I’m wearing

I’ll have to break our deepest hopes
They keep you in shape
Too late to explain
How many things of whole and good

The mirror
Glittered all blue and silver
But I was never
In it to begin with

I like to be a shadow
In a shadow
More deep when visible
Than invisible

Oh to be part of the scenery
Oh to be filled with apathy
For you to be a little bit scared of me

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What did Frankie Cosmos say about "Jesse"?

It’s one of my favorite songs on the record. It also has five instruments, the usual four plus an extra guitar, which is exciting and new. Having someone who was not in the band write a second guitar part for a song was scary, and it took me accepting that the song wasn’t going to sound the same live. Our records are almost like recorded versions of our live set, and I don’t like having a bunch of parts on the record that we can’t achieve live. So coming to terms with the live set being different from the album arrangement was a big part of letting the sound get a little bigger.

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