Cold Snap
Recorded January 2005
Release history
- Little By Little... (2005)
- Little By Little... [re-release] (2006)
Credits
- Written by Harvey Danger, © But Mom I Love Music (ASCAP)/Famous Music
- Produced, engineered, and mixed by John Goodmanson and Steve Fisk
- Recorded at Robert Lang Studios with engineering assistance by Justin Armstrong
- Guitar by John Roderick
Lyrics
He was the king of random fancy
an incorrigible flirt
He liked to try to put her on a pedestal
just so he could look up her skirt
But he’s changing
And she is nobody’s girlfriend
He doesn’t mind
Dormant desires which are better kept clandestine
He captured her imagination
a brutal vista on the map
She thought she felt her will break, but it was the weather
From a chilling wind to a full-fledged cold snap
We will be lazy with our language and comfortable with our clothes off
We will say just what we have in mind
And she’s still nobody’s girlfriend
He doesn’t mind
Dormant desires which are better kept clandestine
The way you want it is just the way it’s going to be
And if that’s the way you want it, it’s just the way it’s going to be
the only version you’ll see
me at my worst is either broken up or broken down
broken up
or broken down
Quotes
Jeff: The sound or timbre of an instrument often strongly dictates which way a song wants to go, which can be a good thing or a quick route to a generic dead end. The Rhodes electric piano is a distinctive sound, and I'd been curious about it for some time. A friend tipped me off that he'd seen one in good condition at a Lynnwood pawnshop, and after much struggle I loaded it into the trunk of the car and took it to the studio. This was the first of several songs to use it.10A
Sean: The most soulful sound we ever achieved, still the song wasn't ready for King James Version and didn't feel right on Little By Little...; John Roderick's two guitar solos here—one the result of crafty editing by John Goodmanson, the other the result of JR's genuinely inspired touch as a lead guitarist (shades of George Harrison)—make the recording for me.10A
Aaron: One of the best songs we've written, but it's had a troubled history. An early version of it, recorded during the KJV sessions, never came together: We revisited it later, when Roderick and Squires were in the band, and made a difficult but entrancing recording of it. We came back to it yet again while recording LBL, but it didn't quite hit the mark.10A