Songtexte I Moved South (Commentary) - Delta Rae

I told you it was catchy!

That's "A Long and Happy Life" from Delta Rae, and we are
Celebrating the release of their new EP, which is available now!
You can download it wherever you download your music

And before we play the next song, I wanted to ask, I mean
With six of you, I'm sure there has to be sort of a
Sibling dynamic, aside from the three siblings in the band
And with every sibling relationship, there are always
Gonna be squabbles and, you know, you get under each
Other's skin, so how do you all deal with that as a band?
I mean, do you just know to walk away from each
Other? Is there a peacekeeper in the band?

Um, noise-cancelling headphones
Yeah, those are a real help

Uh, we actually, you know, we've been doing this
For so long now that we've gotten into a pretty
Great rhythm, um, and we're such good friends
You know, the unfortunate thing, I feel badly for Mike Grant and Liz '
Cause they frequently have to deal with some unearthed family dynamic
That, you know, came out of some trauma when we
Were squabbling over a toy or something back
In the day and, uh, it's manifesting itself now

Right, I'm sorry about that, Eric, I've said it so many times
No, but, uh, but then there's also, you know, new internal dynamics
We've been doing this for seven years and spending
All our time together, so we try and bring Mike Grant
And Liz into as many, uh, fights as we possibly can

Yeah, I think it, I think it's definitely worth saying
If we're gonna be honest with our audience, that we do
Squabble, but I think that, like in any good relationship
Those things make you stronger, and luckily nobody's quit yet
Yes, thank goodness nobody has quit

So tell me about "I Moved South," and I love this song, by the way
Thank you so much!

"I Moved South" is the story of us starting this band
So, um, the first line is "I lived in California," and I sing that
And that's true, I was living in California when we started
And then Liz sings "I was working in
Manhattan," and, yeah, and that's true too

So, we, uh, got an email from Eric asking us to join this band
And, and, you know, for me, moving back to the South was
Like a real homecoming, and I had so many memories of my
Childhood there that were just absolutely romantic and wonderful
And I think for Liz it was, um, a place
That she had to grow to love or, you know
Yeah, it was, it was just a huge adventure
I knew that my friends would be there when I got there, I knew that
Ian, Eric and Brit would be the only people that I knew in North
Carolina for a while, but that, that certainly changed, and um

But that line in the song, "Where my
Friends take care of me," you know, I think
It's still very true
Yeah

I love that song and it's very special every time we perform it
Because it, it's our story and it's autobiographical, but even when
We're singing it in, you know, we could be singing it in, in
Massachusetts and it feels like it resonates with people everywhere

Just every time we break into "And so we moved down south where they
Still play rock and roll," I think people just love the spirit of
That line and the idea of the fact that we're
Kind of, we're carrying this torch of storytelling
Into every town that we stop in on our tours

Yeah, and, and I really think it's special
To us 'cause it's Liz and my only duet
It is
And we love to sing together
And it's one where we really can kinda like put
Our arms around each other and, um, belt it out

Well, Britney and Liz, I think you two sound
Fantastic on this song, it just makes me wanna dance

This is "I Moved South," you can find it on Delta Rae's "Long and
Happy Life" EP, which is available now, and this is Big Machine Radio