Maple Dye, "Wild Lovers"
This song was inspired by a couple I knew in my twenties, part of my group of "drinking buddies". Both him and her were beautiful like Greek gods, and not only that, but also very nice people, and could outdrink you and outsmoke you (because such were our pleasures then) and leave you behind the table any day of the week. They were a bit our private deity, and while writing my song I kinda did the "role playing" of being him singing his love to her in a poetic way; the consolation of love that compensates the toil of living, the many cruel things that happen in this world. The song is full of references that are like a sentimental map for me. We shared a love for The Doors ("My Wild Love"), the "heartbeat style" of the drumming has a lot to do with Neil Young's "Harvest" for sure, there is a tip of the hat to Lenny Kravitz too ("Welcome to the Real World")... Those days, those laughters no longer exist, but this