00:00I honestly can say that I've consistently liked this song since the moment I wrote it.
00:05Most of the time, two weeks after it's released, I'm like,
00:07oh god, that's fucking shite. Turn it off. But I didn't have that with this.
00:18I did a song with Noah Kahn where he deleted the second verse and just says,
00:23you know, have at it. That's what I wanted to do with somebody and I picked Olivia.
00:27I sent her the whole album and Olivia picked Rain Me In.
00:30So you have Olivia to thank for this song.
00:49It's the musings of a narcissist, really.
00:51This character's completely screwed up the relationship.
00:55Their actions aren't replicating what their moral beliefs are.
00:59Do you know what I mean?
01:00So that's the end of the relationship.
01:02By the gunner, you shouted, oh my god.
01:09It seemed churlish, but it's what I was old, I suppose.
01:17Every flagstone of this town, there's our prince.
01:30It's just a small town. That's what I'm saying. If you've got an ex, you're going to see them.
01:34Every flagstone on all the pavements on the street and every building that you walk past serves as a
01:40reminder of some part of your life or reminds you of something from a relationship that you've had.
01:45You lose some good bars and things over your life.
02:01Everyone wishes they had hindsight and could avoid these, but that's what growing up is.
02:06Isn't it? You've got to fuck up to wake up sometimes.
02:21Just talking about substance abuse and drinking too much.
02:24And to get the reason back, the reason for going through your day.
02:27I'm sorry, it's a very bleak song.
02:28I've tried to do what ABBA do.
02:30ABBA like make it sound like, but then it's really sad.
02:48It's loosely based on my own life, this song, but also it's, you know,
02:51I always kind of take parts of my own life and then put it into characters, you know,
02:55and embellish it because all good stories deserve embellishment.
02:58The Reign Me In part's kind of, your friends are going to reign you in from drinking too much
03:02of going off the rails because you're, you're, you're heartbroken and you're dealing with it in a bad way.
03:20I've seen people on like TikTok being like, he pronounces tinnitus wrong.
03:24And I'm like, no, we'll just say it differently.
03:26The tinnitus and tinnitus.
03:27I like the fact that that's divided people on screen.
03:29It's quite funny.
03:51I've seen a lot of that online as well.
03:53Americans go, what are lugs?
03:54Yeah, these are your lugs.
03:55Where I'm from, I'm from a place called Newcastle and the people of Newcastle are known as Geordie's.
04:00We have a lot of colloquialisms that tend not to translate across the Atlantic.
04:06And I like to put them in.
04:07He's going around telling everybody, oh God, I fucked this up and I shouldn't have done this.
04:10And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
04:11But there's only one person you should be saying that to.
04:16My favourite memory was performing it with Olivia in a London stadium.
04:21And you know what's really funny as well?
04:23It's live recorded and we actually kind of fucked it up a bit, but nobody knows.
04:26I forced the entry of the chorus.
04:29I entered the chorus too early and thank God Olivia just rolled with it.
04:33We somehow managed to make it not look like a mistake, so it's fine.
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