Take Her Off Your Hands - Commentary

I don't remember who had the hook, who had the idea, but (Josh) Josh

Had it? (Yeah) Um, but for me personally, that was, that was just

Following the lead of a writer like Dean Dillon. And writing kind of

In that perspective and in that voice. There's a certain amount of

Of kind of cowboy bravado, but also chivalry to it, which I love

About that. There's a couple faces to this guy. I do love that

Perspective, you know, that he's uh, admiring this person and seeing

Everything that this other guy can't see. You know, even from afar

Because he's, he's a tuned in guy, he's on the level, you know what

I mean? I love the romanticism of it, of, it reminds me, that's how

My parents met. My mom was on a date with another guy and my dad

Walked up to the table and introduced himself. Uh, the story is uh

Is history from there, but it, it was, it was, I felt like that was

One of the easier songs that we wrote because, again, that's a

Landscape that we know really well. All five of us, having spent

A lot of time in bars and look, everybody's been uh, had, had

Training and, and had seat time as a pickup artist I guess, right?

Everybody's gotta meet somebody somehow, so. But sonically, it

Was interesting. That's what I think, instead of just being that

Song kinda straightforward, cut as like a George Strait, that's

In the recording process, that's when you're gonna actually see

I think a lot of peppering of, of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

And the, and the Eagles on those big soaring harm- harmonies

But I think the uh, the twelve string for me gave that a, a tense

A tinge of, of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, which I love