Don’t make excuses why you really care
If you wanted to see me you’d telling me when and where
I don’t wanna hear about your boring day
You’re so boring ’til you call me a babe

I wanna be a little more honest
Get you more un-modest
I wanna show you some new things
But you’re not ready for that
You wanna show me to your best friend
You keep on pretending your world is a mess

You know what?

I don’t give a fuck
I’m ok with the patience
I wanna try life in your hands
I don’t give a fuck
I hate that you can’t see me
But love that we’re not close to the end

Yeah
I don’t give a fuck
I don’t give a fuck
I don’t give a fuck

Give a fuck
I don’t give a fuck
I don’t give a fuck

Give a fuck
I don’t give a fuck

Give a fuck fuck fuck fuck
Fuck fuck fuck fuck
Fuck fuck fuck

LENGTH — 1:04
WRITTEN BY: HIDDEN PPL
PRODUCED BY: HIDDEN PPL
WRITTEN: 08/23/2020

“CLOSE TO THE END” is about managing expectations while also acknowledging personal desires. It’s also about getting someone to loosen up, drop excuses and just let everything go. It was the second song written for the project. It’s an important album starter, as it beings the journey of planting a new seed of romance.

(Yeah, oh, oh)

We should be sipping Hennessey on a cold beach
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Smoke under the tree

How you gonna go?
Cause that's real fucked up
When I gave you love, body, sex, and trust
If you look for another it'll be so wrong
If you find you another it won't be for long
If you want to slow down then I need you to communicate

Don't be lazy, rev that engine, get all in my face
Just make up your mind, I can't do it for you
If you wanna try, I can just adore you
Just make up the time lost from last summer
If you want it we can kick it like a drummer

If you want it how I want it, we can kick all night
Fuck the past, we don't need it if we play our cards right
If you want it, I can put on a show

We're too comfortable with saying no
On your mark, set, go

(Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah)

LENGTH — 1:18
WRITTEN BY: HIDDEN PPL
PRODUCED BY: HIDDEN PPL
WRITTEN: 12/13/2020

“DRUMMER” is fun, flirty, bitchy, and sexy. It’s about defining the boundaries and agreeing to throw them all away to have some fun.

Drinking by myself again
'Cause you're not here
I just pretend
That we're just throwing shots back in the night
But it's just a lie

Need to set some better goals
And love myself until I'm old
I try to keep my head on dead-on straight
Head on, dead-on straight

Just stay away
Just stay away, yeah, yeah
You don't get to ruin my mental space
Now I'm in a foreign emotional state, yeah
Look at my face when I cry
Look at my face 'fore we die
Look at my face one more time
Look at my face

Do you evеn really see me? yeah
Do you еven see me? yeah
Do you even see me?
I don't believe it, yeah

Tell me that you see me, yeah
Tell me that you see me
I don't believe it yeah

You didn't think you'd see me tonight
You didn't think you'd see me tonight
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

You didn't think you'd see me tonight
You didn't think you'd see me tonight
Oh yeah yeah yeah

I didn't think I'd go home and cry
I didn't think I'd go home and cry
Oh no, no, no

I didn't think I'd go home and cry
Because I didn't see you tonight
Yeah, yeah, yeah

LENGTH — 2:00
WRITTEN BY: HIDDEN PPL
PRODUCED BY: HIDDEN PPL
WRITTEN 05/11/2021

“FOREIGN EMOTIONAL STATE” describes a new feeling, the first feeling of anger and hopelessness. It’s scary but honest.

Maybe we go dancing out at a show
Fuck until we pass out on the floor
Maybe we just take a breath
And take another step, 'nother step forward

If you’re down for anything, I'm up for that
You put on my shirt, I'm wearing your hat
If we play in the shadows
We’ll never see our shape together

Usually I stay right here and give up
I get so tired of being in love
I move so fast that I can’t breathe
I move so fast that it's scary

Yeah

Believe in us
Like you believe in romancе in the park
Kiss me after dark
Oh, oh, kiss mе, kiss me
Hard and slow
Like we could never get this time again
Who cares how it ends?
Oh, oh, kiss me, kiss me

Oh, kiss me, kiss me hard
Oh, kiss me, kiss me slow
Oh, kiss me, kiss me
Like you never, like you never know

Oh, kiss me, kiss me hard
Oh, kiss me, kiss me slow
Oh, kiss me, kiss me
Like you never, like you never know

LENGTH — 1:23
WRITTEN BY: HIDDEN PPL
PRODUCED BY: HIDDEN PPL
WRITTEN: 08/22/2020

Hope. “ROMANCE IN THE PARK” centerpiece of the album and the reason the project exists. This song is about hope and believing things can work out. Whatever that means.

You love when I pull you back and forth (yeah)
Pull you back and forth
You know my body's yours (yeah)
‘Cause tonight imma give it all to you
Give it all to you

‘Cause everything I'm missing
I know I'll find it in you, you
Yeah you
I know I'll find it in you
Find it in you

You love when I pull you back and forth (yeah)
Pull you back and forth
You know my body's yours (yeah)
‘Cause tonight imma give it all to you
Give it all to you

‘Cause everything I'm missing
I know I'll find it in you, you
Yeah you
I know I'll find it in you
(oh)

One star when you want to go away
Five star when you’re holding my waist in the foyer
In the hallway babe
Look at all the love that we made in the bed
When you (yeah), touchdown
We're too loud
You're the only one I want around

‘Cause everything I'm missing
I know I'll find it in you, you
Yeah you
I know I'll find it in you
Find it in you

LENGTH — 1:04
WRITTEN BY: SAINT WADE + HIDDEN PPL
PRODUCED BY: HIDDEN PPL
WRITTEN: 01/8/2018

“FIVE STAR” is about searching for a missing piece of yourself in someone new. It’s enjoyable in the moment, but ultimately not the solution that lasts. There’s a sense of delusion underneath the desire.

Over and over you talk about my smile
I get so shy and I think I know why
You said “do you like mine?” in the back of the line

I think the line’s too long
But I’ll wait it out because I’m with you (mm)
’Cause I’m with you

Yeah

California burns in the sun
Facing fears until it’s not fun
Let’s find the truth
While we leave our youth where it’s supposed to be

Bright blue showers in the night
Grab my waist and hold me tight
Make me spend all of my life

It’s so easy that it’s hard
Sail the ocean in your car
Floating further ‘til we’re far

LENGTH — 1:18
WRITTEN BY: HIDDEN PPL
PRODUCED BY: HIDDEN PPL
WRITTEN: 06/19/2021

When you’re having the time of your life, it feels like nothing else matters. Consequences and discomfort just float away. “CALIFORNIA BURNS” tries to bottle these feelings, as they don’t always last forever.

It's the moment before expectations,
but after the unknowns.

Could you take off all of my insecurities?
Drop them right there.
No. Right there.
Falls in between the sheets (yeah)

If you wanna talk, we can talk all night
We can even fuck if the moment’s right
I’m not going anywhere

It’s how our story goes, the chemicals, yeah
You’re so addicted to what you don’t know yet
What do you don’t know yet
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Uh-huh

It’s how our story goes, the chemicals, yeah
You’re so addicted to what you don’t know yet
What do you don’t know yet

LENGTH — 1:44
WRITTEN BY: HIDDEN PPL + EMILY VAUGHN
PRODUCED BY: HIDDEN PPL
WRITTEN: 07/28/2021

“CHEMICALS“ is about the moment before expectations, but after the unknowns. Insecurities start to rise, but they can be soothed.

You needed more time to figure out how you’re feeling
And that’s so fine
And imma let you do that and live your stale life
Until you realize that you need me
(yeah yeah)
Yeah you need me
(yeah yeah)

We flirt on phone calls
And that’s so good for now
But that’s a real stall to have me at your place
And now it’s your fault that my mind’s gone crazy
’Cause I need you
(yeah yeah)
Yeah I need you
(yeah yeah yeah)

Put me on a fast flight
On a fast flight, fast flight tonight
I know you’re scared but it feels right
Yeah it feels right
Don’t let it die
Put me on a fast flight
On a fast flight fast, flight tonight

Take a chance, take chance, take it (yeah)

LENGTH — 2:00
WRITTEN BY: HIDDEN PPL
PRODUCED BY: HIDDEN PPL
WRITTEN: 08/23/2020

“FAST FLIGHT” is the very first song we intentionally wrote for this project. It’s the birth and ethos of HIDDEN PPL. It’s a bratty song that plays with the idea of taking a trip to see a new lover. It includes the lyric “don’t let it die“, which is the ongoing fear and theme throughout the project. It was the hardest song perfect and the most rewarding one to listen back on now.

You always pay for my dinners
No losers no winners
You're not a quitter
You're not over us
When we get older
The chip on our shoulder
Starts to feel heavy and done

Since you opened up
I see that I’ve been really stuck in a dream
Should I stay or should I leave?
Yeah, I’ll chance it with you if you chance it with me
Yeah

Da da da da
Da da da da
Da da da da da

Even when I’m in and out your zone
Never wondered if you would take me home

Like fire and metal
We melt til we settle
Mold into place ’til we're something unique
And even in dark times we still got a good vibe
You look into my eyes and then we just kiss
Ooh!

Since you opened up
I see that I’ve been really stuck in a dream
Should I stay or should I leave?
Yeah, I’ll chance it with you if you chance it with me
Yeah

Da da da da,
Da da da da,
Da da da da da

Even when I’m in and out your zone
Never wondered if you would take me home

I can’t wait to get undressed
You’re such a little mess
I like it how you’re like that, like that
You can’t wait to drive me home
I’m always down to roam
You like it how I’m like that, like that

LENGTH — 1:23
WRITTEN BY: HIDDEN PPL
PRODUCED BY: HIDDEN PPL
WRITTEN: 10/16/2021

“CHANCE IT“ starts the entire cycle of human connection again. It was important this album ended on an uplifting dialogue that has hope for a beautiful future. It’s sonically a dizzy daydream we’ve been trying to write for a long time.