(electronic music) (electronic buzz) (drum sticks clicking) (rock music) ♪ Hot rotten grass smell ♪ ♪ (censored) down the wishing well ♪ ♪ Neon sign ♪ ♪ At the nail salon ♪ ♪ Turned off ♪ ♪ And the streetlights ♪ ♪ Turned on ♪ ♪ Your closet froze after you left ♪ ♪ Except the people who took your shirts ♪ ♪ Closed off your door with yellow tape ♪ ♪ Saw myself dead at the end of a staircase ♪ (laughs) (drum sticks click) (rock music) ♪ The rain-rotted house ♪ ♪ On the dead end of Baytree ♪ ♪ Old bitter lady ♪ ♪ Sits caddy corner ♪ ♪ To the aftershock ♪ ♪ From the quarry ♪ ♪ She says "America's ♪ ♪ A spoiled child ♪ ♪ That's ignorant of grief" ♪ ♪ But then she gives out ♪ ♪ Full-sized candy bars ♪ ♪ On Halloween ♪ ♪ We had to add it to the tab ♪ ♪ To die we'd have to settle up ♪ ♪ So we just go until we can't ♪ ♪ Or burn it down to feel the heat ♪ ♪ The Kletz brothers' parents ♪ ♪ Fight in the yard ♪ ♪ In their underwear ♪ ♪ Bobby and Jimmy ♪ ♪ Sit in the baby pool ♪ ♪ With lice in their hair ♪ ♪ They have scoliosis ♪ ♪ From constant slumps in misery ♪ ♪ Flat parts on their crew cuts ♪ ♪ From laying their heads on their knees ♪ ♪ We had to add it to the tab ♪ ♪ To die we'd have to settle up ♪ ♪ So we just go until we can't ♪ ♪ Or burn it down to feel the heat ♪ ♪ Georgie set fire ♪ ♪ To acres of cotton ♪ ♪ Settin' off bottle rockets ♪ ♪ The kid from the Jewish family ♪ ♪ Got the preacher's kid pregnant ♪ ♪ They sent her off ♪ ♪ And we never heard too much more about it ♪ ♪ The sweet talk never lasts ♪ ♪ And you learn to go on ♪ ♪ Without ♪ ♪ It ♪ ♪ We had to add it to the tab ♪ ♪ To die we'd have to settle up ♪ ♪ So we just go until we can't ♪ ♪ Or burn it down to feel the heat ♪ ♪ Somebody called the cops on Mandy ♪ ♪ And her boyfriend ♪ ♪ When they busted in ♪ ♪ They found that her house ♪ ♪ Was a front for a mob thing ♪ ♪ They pulled down some cocaine ♪ ♪ From the drywall ♪ ♪ Wrapped in newspaper ♪ ♪ We gathered in the tall grass ♪ ♪ And watched unblinking ♪ ♪ As they cuffed 'em ♪ ♪ And hauled 'em away ♪ ♪ We had to add it to the tab ♪ ♪ To die we'd have to settle up ♪ ♪ So we just go until we can't ♪ ♪ Or burn it down to feel the heat ♪ ♪ When we give up we go ♪ (rock music slows) ♪ To ♪ ♪ Sleep ♪ - I think the like main thing I'm trying to communicate with Wednesday, in the long run, is just like who I am, ultimately, and like, I guess that, was like the start of so much of my personhood, is like stuff that went down in high school, and like really sad stuff that happened in high school.

and like really strange stuff that happened growing up in Greensboro, North Carolina, where I'm from, and it just like makes so much more of me now make sense.

So I think if I was ever to write songs about, which I want to get to eventually, but more about what's going on right now, I need to like lay the groundwork, I guess, 'cause I don't want it to like come from nowhere.

Like everyone has like a little world they need to build around them (guitars screaming) (rock music) ♪ You are ♪ ♪ Fearless ♪ ♪ You ♪ ♪ Defy ♪ ♪ Death ♪ ♪ Flies are ♪ ♪ Zapping ♪ ♪ In ♪ ♪ The ♪ ♪ Bug light ♪ ♪ My ♪ ♪ Fear ♪ ♪ Never ♪ ♪ Leaves ♪ ♪ Me ♪ ♪ And ♪ ♪ I ♪ ♪ Convince ♪ ♪ Myself of these ♪ ♪ Things ♪ (guitar solo playing) ♪ My ♪ ♪ Fear ♪ ♪ Never ♪ ♪ Leaves ♪ ♪ Me ♪ ♪ It's ♪ ♪ All ♪ ♪ Evening ♪ ♪ Out ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ It's ♪ ♪ All ♪ ♪ Getting ♪ ♪ Even ♪ (audience cheers) (drum sticks click) (rock music) ♪ We always started ♪ ♪ By tellin' all our ♪ ♪ Best stories first ♪ ♪ So now that it's been awhile ♪ ♪ I'll get around ♪ ♪ To tellin' you all my worst ♪ ♪ Just so you know what you signed up for ♪ ♪ What you're dealin' with ♪ ♪ Just so you know what you've been ♪ ♪ Chosen ♪ ♪ To ♪ ♪ Deserve ♪ ♪ I'm the girl that you were ♪ ♪ Chosen ♪ ♪ To ♪ ♪ Deserve ♪ ♪ I used to drink 'til I threw up ♪ ♪ On weeknights ♪ ♪ At my parents' house ♪ ♪ My friends all took Benadryl ♪ ♪ 'Til they could see (censored) ♪ ♪ Crawlin' up the walls ♪ ♪ One of those times ♪ ♪ My friend took ♪ ♪ A little too much ♪ ♪ He had to get his ♪ ♪ Stomach pumped ♪ ♪ They took him over to the hospital ♪ ♪ And told us he was lucky ♪ ♪ To survive ♪ ♪ I'm the girl that you were ♪ ♪ Chosen ♪ ♪ To ♪ ♪ Deserve ♪ ♪ I was out late ♪ ♪ Sneakin' into ♪ ♪ The neighborhood pool ♪ ♪ Then I woke up early ♪ ♪ And taught at the Sunday school ♪ ♪ If you're were lookin' for me ♪ ♪ I'm in ♪ ♪ The back of an ♪ ♪ SUV ♪ ♪ Doin' it in some cul-de-sac ♪ ♪ Underneath ♪ ♪ A dogwood tree ♪ ♪ I'm the girl you were ♪ ♪ Chosen ♪ ♪ To Deserve ♪ ♪ I went to school ♪ ♪ About three days ♪ ♪ Out of the week ♪ ♪ Watered down all the liquor ♪ ♪ And then (censored) ♪ ♪ Outside in the street ♪ ♪ Now all the drugs ♪ ♪ Are getting kinda ♪ ♪ Boring to me ♪ ♪ Now everywhere ♪ ♪ Is loneliness ♪ ♪ And it's in ♪ ♪ Everything ♪ ♪ Thank God that I was ♪ ♪ Chosen ♪ ♪ To ♪ ♪ Deserve you ♪ ♪ 'Cause I'm the girl that you were ♪ ♪ Chosen ♪ ♪ To deserve ♪ - The progression with each album so far has just been that like we're learning so much about how like I guess that's like the dynamic with a band in general that like you're working to learn with other people and like right around each other.

And since we're working like with a crew like that is buddies outside, and we like do stuff together outside of music, and learn, like get to know each other outside of that, it somehow feeds into the music, and the way we communicate.

Every song that we do kind of starts with me writing the lyrics, and some of the chords, and a lot of my lyric writing this like, go around was inspired by like outlaw country singers, and country singers in general, country lyricism.

So I think that's where like a lot more of the pedal steel started to come in to support that landscape.

(rock music) ♪ I can walk on water ♪ ♪ Doo ♪ ♪ I can raise the dead ♪ ♪ We joined ♪ ♪ The exodus ♪ ♪ Headed out ♪ ♪ From Dollywood ♪ ♪ Every daughter ♪ ♪ Of God ♪ ♪ Has a little ♪ ♪ Bad luck ♪ ♪ Sometimes ♪ ♪ Every daughter ♪ ♪ Of God ♪ ♪ Has a little ♪ ♪ Bad luck ♪ ♪ Sometimes ♪ ♪ Kid in Bath ♪ ♪ County, Virginia ♪ ♪ Sippin' (censored) colored ♪ ♪ Bright yellow Fanta ♪ ♪ Heard someone died ♪ ♪ In the Planet ♪ ♪ Fitness parking lot ♪ ♪ Fire trucks rolled in ♪ ♪ And people stood around ♪ ♪ Hit 'em with ♪ ♪ A dose ♪ ♪ Of Narcan ♪ ♪ Sat right up ♪ ♪ In the leaned back seat ♪ ♪ Of his ♪ ♪ Two door sedan ♪ ♪ On the way home ♪ ♪ Play Drive-By Truck5rs ♪ ♪ Songs real loud ♪ ♪ You'll be my baby ♪ ♪ 'Til ♪ ♪ My body's ♪ ♪ In the ground ♪ ♪ Drunk5n ♪ ♪ Laughter ♪ ♪ Violence ♪ ♪ After ♪ ♪ Killing ♪ ♪ The ♪ ♪ Heat ♪ ♪ Salt ♪ ♪ Strips ♪ ♪ The ♪ ♪ Paint ♪ (audience cheers) (rock music) ♪ Got him right between ♪ ♪ The shoulders ♪ ♪ And the bull ♪ ♪ Loses blood ♪ ♪ No fight ♪ ♪ Left to give ♪ ♪ Can't pull ♪ ♪ His head up ♪ ♪ Comfort fools us into faith ♪ ♪ Then fate pulls us away ♪ ♪ Again ♪ ♪ A corpse ♪ ♪ With a spirit ♪ ♪ Got out ♪ ♪ Of my bed ♪ ♪ Today ♪ ♪ Bottles call you ♪ ♪ From their ♪ ♪ Seats on the ♪ ♪ Choir riser ♪ ♪ Laid on my back ♪ ♪ In the ♪ ♪ Tepid bathtub ♪ ♪ Water ♪ ♪ The ache of the wind on the windows ♪ ♪ The blood under the bridge ♪ ♪ And the stadium ♪ ♪ Crowd ♪ ♪ Charges the bull ♪ ♪ Wind changed pitch as the bridge ♪ ♪ Went by ♪ ♪ The lightning comes up ♪ ♪ From the ground ♪ ♪ And goes up to the sky ♪ ♪ Poured one out ♪ ♪ For all my guys ♪ ♪ Th5 tiny monuments ♪ ♪ Get propped up ♪ ♪ On th5 roadside ♪ ♪ Believe ♪ ♪ Me ♪ ♪ Believer ♪ ♪ Believe ♪ ♪ Me ♪ ♪ Believer ♪ ♪ Passed out on a couch at a ♪ ♪ New Year's party ♪ ♪ I sat on the stairs with a ♪ ♪ Never-ending nosebleed ♪ ♪ You were playing "Mortal Kombat" ♪ ♪ God make me good ♪ ♪ But not quite yet ♪ ♪ Believe ♪ ♪ Me ♪ ♪ Believer ♪ ♪ Believe ♪ ♪ Me ♪ ♪ Believer ♪ (dragging rock music) ♪ Finish ♪ ♪ Him ♪ ♪ Finish ♪ ♪ Him ♪ ♪ Finish ♪ ♪ Him ♪ ♪ Finish ♪ ♪ Him ♪ ♪ Finish ♪ ♪ Him ♪ ♪ Finish ♪ ♪ Him ♪ ♪ Him ♪ ♪ Him ♪ ♪ Finish ♪ ♪ Him ♪ ♪ Him ♪ ♪ Finish ♪ ♪ Finish ♪ ♪ Him ♪ ♪ (intense rock music) ♪ ♪ Him ♪ ♪ Now ♪ ♪ Him ♪ ♪ Him ♪ ♪ Now ♪ ♪ Him ♪ ♪ Finish ♪ ♪ Him ♪ ♪ Him ♪ ♪ Finish ♪ ♪ Him ♪ ♪ Him ♪ (screams) ♪ Finish ♪ (audience whoops) ♪ Him ♪ - Thanks.

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