“Vines” is the third song from landmark and it is represented by the grapes on the album artwork. It was one of the last songs to be added to the album with the preliminary back cover for landmark not showing “Vines” on the track list.
In the words of Nathan Stocker, the song is about:
Those night...
[Verse 1: Jake]
I see meaning where you don't, where you don't
I see waves of pastel orange and yellow paintings fire
I see futures that you won't, that you won't
I see futures where our nights are lost to condensation
[Chorus: Jake & Nathan]
Night time in the basement
Screaming about our feelings
Running through the cold air
Searching for a meaning
Passed out on the concrete
Dizzy from the spinning
Wake up to the feeling that everybody's leaving
[Verse 2: Jake]
I'm sick of your comedowns
Sick of your truce
Sick of your way
I'm sick of your tragedy that's living in our stasis
I'm sick of your echoes
Sick of these ghosts that haunt our place
I get a feeling that I'll never leave this house again
[Chorus: Jake & Nathan]
Night time in the basement
Screaming about our feelings
Running through the cold air
Searching for a meaning
Passed out on the concrete
Dizzy from the spinning
Wake up to the feeling that everybody's leaving
Everybody's leaving
Everybody's leaving
[Bridge: Jake, Whistler, Jake & Nathan]
Failed by design, slow your pace down to mine
Watch my back, heave a sigh
Keep it safe, make it right
Failed by design, slow your pace down to mine (Soulful vines)
Watch my back, heave a sigh
Keep it safe, make it right (Soulful vines)
[Chorus: Jake & Nathan]
Night time in the basement (Failed by design)
Screaming about our feelings
(Slow your pace down to mine)
Running through the cold air
Searching for a meaning
Passed out on the concrete (Watch my back, heave a sigh)
Dizzy from the spinning
(Keep it safe, make it right)
Wake up to the feeling that everyone is leaving
vines was written by Mono Moon & Whistler Isaiah & brotherkenzie & Lupin & Hippo Campus.
vines was produced by BJ Burton.
Hippo Campus released vines on Fri Feb 24 2017.
“Vines” is about those nights we come back and we’re catching up, maybe getting a little too drunk, with the knowledge that in the morning, everybody could be gone. So it’s about savoring those moments, knowing that it could all be gone the next morning. We wrote that song on the tail end of the rec...
Although all four Hippo Campus members are credited as writers on “Vines,” Jake told National Public Radio:
That was Zach and I who wrote the words on that one, actually.
Nathan added:
That started out with a pocket piano thing that these guys were working on.