Me & You from PILLOWTALK by The Single Helix & Erica Rose Sauder

I wrote this at the Art Gallery where I worked in 2011. After meeting Rebecca, we would hangout in the gallery, talk and keep each other company. One day I brought my laptop and uke (or was it Erica's uke?). I started messing around with a few chords and the melody hit me! I loved the melody and recorded it on the webcam. Just a snippet of the chords and the melody are enough to then sit down and transpose to a guitar. I then figured out what the lyrics could be. When I have a good melody in place, I can find good words that phonetically fit the song to keep it sounding the way I imagine. It fit very well in the collection of songs and later became a sort of upbeat electronic track harkening back to my Postal Service listening days.

Again, like much of the album, this song was born as an acoustic ditty and experimentally transformed in the studio. Working on all of these songs as an album, I felt the record could use something more upbeat. The tempo allowed a dance beat, but I was unsure. I played it for Rebecca and she loved it, so I kept the dance beat. It is a catchy love song and I love repeating choruses that swell into majesty.

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3.	Me & You	3:58

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from PILLOWTALK, released May 1, 2014

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