Unwrapped: Tweak Bird - A Sun / Ahh Ahh

CALEB: The origin was a guitar riff with the drums - we were playing in the basement of a punk house in our town, just rehearsing, trying to squeeze in some writing. We came up with that riff then Ashton came up with the vocal line over it...

ASHTON: I think you had a bunch of words which were pretty much to a love song... so I said 'I love it!'

ARTROCKER: So it's a love song?

ASHTON: No man, that song is about how the sun is going to burn out and everybody's going to die! And that's true - it's a big ball 'a gas, and it can't burn forever. Most of our songs probably are pretty much about the world ending in some way or another, or what will lead to the world's destruction. You know, but we're happy people!

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ARTROCKER: Is the world ending something you can imagine happening imminently?

ASHTON: Yeah, I guess so! Is that not normal? (laughs) I guess part of it is being environmentally conscious, and also being a bit of a conspiracy theorist I guess. But yeah man, I feel like something drastic's gonna happen - all the time.

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