'Alligator' was the first record that anyone paid attention to, and it seemed like it was the screamy songs that got us that attention.
A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.
The lyrics are what I work on the hardest, but I'm not trying to make a perfectly clear message or anything like that. In fact, I'm usually trying to avoid saying something too directly, because usually that rings false anyway.
A lot of the lyrics I write involve images that just swing the song in a way that feels really good to me and there isn't a literal explanation. They're not riddles for the listener to solve.
