“Ice Cold Pool” pays homage to Wallows songs of the past, incorporating lyrics from released song “Underneath the Streetlights in the Winter Outside Your House” and lyrics from several years before to create a track all about growing up.
Writer Braeden has mentioned that “Ice Cold Pool” was one of...
[Verse 1]
We both lost our innocence
To 'Heaven or Las Vegas'
Bedroom rearranged again
And snow out on the pavement
[Pre-Chorus]
Colors from outside
Bathed in orange and white
Let's invite your friends for a backseat drive
[Chorus]
It's not a crime if you take what's given
It's just a crime if you're payin' for it
What's the fun if you know what's comin'?
I don't want to escape it
[Verse 2]
Standing outside of your house
It's pretty dark out
Good thing there's lights
It's pretty cold though
I just need you right here
To warm me up this time
[Pre-Chorus]
Words turn to a cough
You say I'll never get you off
Now when you stand in a crowd
Is your mind in the gutter?
Your head on the run
(Your head on the run)
[Chorus]
It's not a crime if you take what's given
It's just a crime if you're payin' for it
What's the fun if you know what's comin'?
I don't want to escape it
[Bridge]
The plant inside that never seemed to die
You cut it down before the leaves were brown
The gate was closed, we know that we're too old
The pool is cold, the pool is cold
[Chorus 2]
It's not a crime if you take what's given
It's just a crime if you're payin' for it
What's the fun if you know what's comin'?
I don't want to escape this feeling
And when we tear down the walls completely
Are we left with the same old memories?
There's a song that I still hear faintly
It's just a recipe for my love
It's just a recipe for my love
Ice Cold Pool was written by Cole Preston & Dylan Minnette & Braeden Lemasters.
Ice Cold Pool was produced by John Congleton.
Wallows released Ice Cold Pool on Fri Mar 22 2019.
That one has been around for a second, like the guitar lick in the beginning, that was just an idea I came up with awhile ago. It was one of those songs that was insanely hard to write. There’d be years that would go by without that song progressing. I didn’t know what pieces it should have, I didn’...