"I had been kicking around the guitar riff to ‘Hear Me Out’ for probably six or seven years. Subconsciously I think. I’ll get into a trance like state when I’m just laying on the couch playing guitar and ideas sort of reappear over and over again and I think they are stupid and discard them, only to have them stubbornly reappear in my musical psyche out of nowhere like a year later. Oh that dumb idea again. Goodbye.
However one day we were wrapping up practice and I felt confident about the phrase and just started playing it. I had been listening to a lot of Oasis oddly enough that week, and felt inspired to try to emulate their brand of unabashed simple Beatles derived pop. And this was not a characteristic habit of mine to say the least! After Corina left, I just sat down and wrote the lyrics and the melody basically in the time it took her to walk home. And she only lives a half mile away. The lyrics are sort of silly but I meant them very earnestly as a love letter of sorts to our band and the potential we have. Within an hour I had all the parts more or less demoed, including the song’s key element in my mind — Corina's tambourine part ripped directly from “You've Got To Hide Your Love Away.”
When it came time to record it, I knew it was in need of an instrumental build. So I recruited Liquor Radio’s Coralie Colmez to lend us her beautiful violin playing, and crafted a drum part with Alex Cohen for the back half of the song — which includes my bass playing. I’m really proud of this song, and it continues to shock, please and frustrate me that the best songs come together quickly and without much labor. This one was just sitting in the vortex until I pulled out of the air and dressed it up a little bit. The whole process was very rewarding."
- Jesse O'Neill
lyrics
when you call my name, it makes me want to stay
struck a beat under my feet, makes me want to play
and i see
we could do better
you and me could be really good
we will be
never under weather
we will be the reason you could
tell me can you hear me, can you feel me tell me can you hear me now
tell me can you hear me, can you feel me tell me can you hear me now
cause I've been working such a long time
been on a long line
tell me can you hear me now
tell me can you hear me, can you feel me
tell me can you hear me out
a thousand sons, a thousand moons, making it tight
under the bridge above the clouds doing it right
and i see
yeah we've gotten better better than they said we should
you and me we're in this together tell me that it's understood
tell me can you hear me, can you feel me tell me can you hear me now
tell me can you hear me, can you feel me tell me can you hear me now
cause I've been working such a long time
been on a long line
tell me can you hear me now
tell me can you hear me, can you feel me
tell me can you hear me out
Executive Produced by Jesse O'Neill & Corina Corina
Produced by Jesse O'Neill
Recorded and mixed by Mike Kutchman at Kutch-1 Studios
Mastered by Carl Saff for Saff Mastering
Vocals by Jesse O'Neill & Corina Corina
Guitar and Bass by Jesse O'Neill
Percussion by Corina Corina
Drums by Alex Cohen
Violin by Coralie Colmez
The NYC acoustic blues/folk duo Max Caddy features the souring soulful vocals of Corina Corina & Jesse O'Neill's licking finger picking guitar. 💔 &🥃 included.
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