I wrote this song back in 2007 when Joe was asking me to marry him. When asked how he proposed to me, his response was always, “over and over and over…”. And it’s true. He was persistent and I wasn’t sure; he was insistent and I questioned it. That is the “Baby I love You” that you hear pleading and nearly desparate over and over again. I wrote this song off a little guitar riff that can be heard tucked into the clamor and groove of the drums and the bass and nestled behind the wurlitzer that restates itself over and over. The chorus made me think of Tom Waits, kind of like Shoreleave. It takes classic minor chord form and tells a story of the push and pull of a man and woman, and what we go through to get what we want.
I knew I wanted to do something different with the vocals here. We ran the mic into an amp and then miked the amp. Mike Landis took it and played with the controls do give it it’s depth and breadth. Listen to the song here: