Payphone's one of those songs, I think that
the initial idea when we heard it,
we were
not totally sure about it,
but as time went on and as we sat and toiled over the lyrics
and tried to just create some more depth to the tune,
it really grew on us a lot.
I think that I kind of just love the
* off nature of the end of the chorus,
the tagline
of the chorus.
I think that's really cool.
It kind of subverts the sweetness of it,
the poppiness of it.
This song also,
for whatever reason,
is really fun to play live,
and I didn't really expect
that,
because a lot of our creations in the
studio are hard to pull off live because we
have so much stuff going on.
But this song,
at the heart of it,
just with those same four chords that go throughout
the entire song,
it's very nice to just sit at a
campfire and strum it on your acoustic.
Definitely a campfire classic, Payphone.
Light up those campfires,
get those acoustics out,
here comes Payphone.
Let's get wild.