***Sounds like: Early Passion Pit Bubble Gum Break Up***
Dangerous Fun is one of the oldest songs on this album, having been made in probably 2014. It has gone through 3 different sets of melodies and lyrics before it landed here!!
I originally sent it to my friend I met on Twitter @CeliaInside, who is an artist in NYC. She wrote lyrics for the first iteration of the song about a girl she was dating that would come in and out of her life frequently.
I re-wrote the lyrics a few times and changed the song structure a bit, but the pre-choruses are still her original lyrics, and the story of the song is based on her story, mixed in with some of my experiences with bad lovers.
Fun fact!: I originally had a lyric from Mariah Carey's "Heartbreaker" in the breakdown, but was scared to record it because a large record company would literally squash us to death. Although maybe I should have because the free press from the lawsuit would have been good for our careers.
Anyways, you can catch this version live as we play that version live!
lyrics
Breaking up with me
Said you had a place to be
No doubt's 500 degrees
You're always on the run
You got a record that's hard to beat
Top line, 3-piece never miss a cheat
Always out for number 1
But you found a new way out
Like you can't do no wrong
Cause you saw a new way out
In abandon you run
Away to the waves
let them take you out to sea
Oh my babe, you'll never get my ecstasy
I'll watch you fade as you rise into the sun
Cuz it's time for no more dangerous fun!
So now you're back again
Saying you can save this lost world and
Give me everything I want
So you got me
Shooting like a star
Supernova hard
Ripping atmosphere apart
I still want so bad to believe
That you found a new way out
Like you can't do no wrong
Cause you saw a new way out
In abandon you run
Away to the waves
let them take you out to sea
Oh my babe, you'll never get my ecstasy
I'll watch you fade as you rise into the sun
Cuz it's time for no more dangerous fun!
Oh yeah
(Ahhhhhhhhhh ooooo)
Oh why can't I let you go?
Why can't I let you go?
Away to the waves
let them take you out to sea
Oh my babe, you'll never get my ecstasy
I'll watch you fade as you rise into the sun
Cuz it's time for no more dangerous fun!
credits
from Alien Fantasy,
released June 11, 2018
Lyrics by Katie Bolin and Jessica Ann Bartlett
Percussion by Katie Bolin and Nigel Carleton
Synth, Sample edits by Katie Bolin
Mixed and mastered by Katie Bolin and Ian Carleton
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