Stand Too Close

Album: My Dinosaur Life (2010)
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  • Bass player Matt Taylor told Alternative Press about this handclap-happy number: "Justin wrote and recorded the verse of this song as a little ditty for music for a movie. He played it for us while we were in the studio recording acoustic tracks for B-sides for Even If It Kills Me. We basically told him that we were taking the song and there was nothing he could do about it. We actually had trouble structuring this song because the verse is so catchy that we had a hard time finding a chorus that could even match it. The final decision was to let the verse be the hooky part and have a B part that served as a sort of anti-chorus. Also, Justin finally fulfilled his goal of working Busta Rhymes into a song." (Taylor is referring to the lyric "When I've gone off the wall like Busta Rhymes.")

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