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Video credits:

Girl : Michelle Flowers
Director: Chad Blevins http://www.vimeo.com/user1896305
Assistant Director : Emily Blevins

Lyrics:

I know of a girl.
A girl in my world.
Know so much about her.
Yet she don't tell me nothing.
Don't need to ask her her favorite flower.
Don't need her to tell me what it is.

It's dandelion.

Can't, cant tell you how,
How, how we'll make out.
And can't say what it is.
With her feel like I could be something.
Oh, I feel love even in my toes.
No, she don't want no, no rose.

She wants dandelion.
©2011 J.Perry


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About the song:

Dandelion is a development on our sound and approach. Instrumentally, the track is something you've not yet heard from us. Instead of the instrumentation of electric guitars and electric bass, this song includes performances on acoustic guitar, banjo and ukelele. Additionally, since one of us recently found some very-fine violin samples (samples of individual notes, not samples of songs, arrangements or riffs etc.) from an original Mark II Mellotron, a strange, lush, fantasy-like string arrangement permeates the track that is most closely linked to their track Dear from their 2nd album American Craze. As far as approach, we don't take any longer than usual to produce songs, but we do take our time in crafting a track. Dandelion, on the other hand, was tracked, mixed and then mastered in Chicago by Carl Saff all in less than 24 hours - definitely a gigantic record for any of our other officially released tracks. Despite this brevity in production, the track compares, on all levels we feel, to the quality of our other releases - a fact that initially mystified us then got us excited for future recordings.


In terms of subject matter, the idea is simple: a guy claims to know, love a girl who's favorite flower is the dandelion and who wants dandelions instead roses. Such a simple idea should only require some simple, light, perhaps 'cute' music. But the idea is not examined in this way by the group. Surely an unreliable narrator. While the idea is simple, the analogical implication, that there is this girl who requires nothing other than the most basic thing to win and keep her love, happiness and faithfulness, is of fantasy - fantasy being a chief lyrical theme of the group already. Perhaps it's a tragic fantasy - that we, as humans, cannot seem to accept people for who they are, what they do, what they want to do or where they want to go. It's never just that - never for very long anyway. The music, a light waltz, lush at times, hints at a strange comfort, and also a vague sadness. But a sadness drunken and so intoxicated by a beautiful thought that reality is gladly forgotten. And in this dream, for the waking, the reprieve is indefinite. Dandelion is a track that we sought to capture this sentiment - this sentiment of the intoxicated beauty of the moment.