In an interview with Shakefire a day before the single’s release, Ralph discussed the inspiration for the song as well as details about an upcoming music video:
I don’t think we’ll go as dark as Wild Beast. I have written a little something, it is a take on the tortoise and the hare story, only wit...
[Chorus]
Won't you hook me up
To that steady love
It's all I want
Like IV, baby
Ooh, ooh-o-o-ooh
[Verse 1]
They've painted love as a delicate thing
Catch it quick on the flick of a wing
It soars out the door, and oh
Mind how you go
Most burnt out by midnight
The fire moves quick and thick, oh
Leaving just smoke trails below
[Chorus]
Won't you hook me up
To that steady love
It's all I want
Like IV, baby
Hook me up
Drop by drop
To the good stuff
It's all I want
And ooh, ooh-o-o-ooh
[Verse 2]
Endless peddling of a Hollywood dream
As if the start was the hardest thing
The "will they, won't theys" growing old
Maybe they don't
'Cause if your world comes tumbling
And you're halfway drowning
Better hope that they're the raft, not the cause
[Chorus]
Won't you hook me up
To that steady love
It's all I want
Like IV, baby
Hook me up
Drop by drop
To the good stuff
It's all I want
And ooh, ooh-o-o-ooh
[Bridge]
You need it on your darkest days
Stoke it, boy, and grow the flames, oh
Dark ahead and storms up above
Give me vast unsinkable
You need it on your darkest days
Stoke it, boy, and grow the flames, oh
Dark ahead and storms up above
Give me vast unsinkable love, oh
[Chorus]
Won't you hook me up
To that steady love
It's all I want
Like IV, baby
Hook me up
Drop by drop
To the good stuff
It's all I want
And ooh, ooh-o-o-ooh
Steady Love was written by Ralph Pelleymounter.
Steady Love was produced by Ben Jackson.
Ralph Pelleymounter released Steady Love on Fri Feb 25 2022.