Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago
Bobby Lopes : Idea and Backing music, Drums, Rhythm Guitar and Bass
Mark Tanner : Lyrics and Melody, Vocals Mixing Mastering and Video
Guitar Hack : Lead Guitar
Special thanks to Mitch Haman for some Video tweaking πβπ
Bobby Lopes : Idea and Backing music, Drums, Rhythm Guitar and Bass
Mark Tanner : Lyrics and Melody, Vocals Mixing Mastering and Video
Guitar Hack : Lead Guitar
Special thanks to Mitch Haman for some Video tweaking πβπ
![Vincent
zero tricks on this, modern vocal comp recomp untouched,. EQ just wide male vocal and a touch of verb. sent through Ozone for some fairy dust and through the final comp an thats it.
Time invested recording? 30 minutes.
Time invested understanding that track
Truly?
60 years π€
Quote from Don Mclean
In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms. I was sitting on the veranda one morning, reading a biography of Van Gogh, and suddenly I knew I had to write a song arguing that he wasnt crazy. He had an illness and so did his brother Theo. This makes it different, in my mind, to the garden variety of crazy β because he was rejected by a woman [as was commonly thought]. So I sat down with a print of Starry Night and wrote the lyrics out on a paper bag. Vincent](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8FEf8yYqMNg/mqdefault.jpg)









![Everything You Want #VerticalHorizon
In 2009, lead vocalist Matt Scannell said he still experience[d] joy singing Everything You Want because he knew it came from a true place. The song deals with unrequited love, and Scannell explained its background in a 2010 interview:
I was in love with this girl, and she was just a broken person. She kept turning to everyone except me for love and acceptance, and I wanted so much to help her. I wanted to be the one to give her everything she wanted, but I couldnt. She just couldnt accept it from me, and it was that pain, that led me to creating the song.
Scannell later elaborated on its meaning in a 2024 interview, stating that it was also about being stuck in a friend zone:
Everything You Want is really about a woman. We were young and trying to figure out what love meant. And she was continually looking at what I thought and continued to think were the wrong people. She would come and sort of cry on my shoulder when they inevitably treated her poorly. And the whole time, I was pining for her. I just loved her. I wanted to be there for her, to be with her, to be more than a friend for her, and it just wasnt in the cards. I could see it in her eyes every time we would talk. I was very much in the friend zone with her. So the only way that I could talk about it was by writing a song about it. I actually believe that she doesnt know that that song was written about her. Im perfectly happy with that. Everything You Want #VerticalHorizon](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BBHewC-fO6k/mqdefault.jpg)