![]() “It was just a junkyard of words,” Avett says of the process. ![]() With the “Brooklyn, Brooklyn, take me in” line turning into an informal refrain, special guest Benmont Tench adding soulful touches on keyboards and the brothers providing moving harmonies to contrast the loneliness depicted in the song, “I And Love And You” proved the perfect way to introduce The Avett Brothers to a wider audience. There was no way that song would exist like it does without all of us.” But it never would have reached as far if it didn’t do that. And I didn’t want to see it get chopped up and repeated. ![]() It never stops.’ And probably at first, I didn’t want to see that happen to something that I felt was innocent and sincere and real. “Letting go of, ‘Whose idea was it?’ I’m sure my first reaction was, ‘This song’s not supposed to have a chorus. “It was the beginning of us dropping this credit thing,” Scott Avett says. ![]() ![]() When Avett took it into the studio, his brother Seth, the song’s co-writer, helped to shape the material, with Rubin encouraging the results. You can definitely hear homages to Van Zandt’s formalized language in the lyrics to “I And Love And You.” (“So I cut the tied and jumped the tracks/For never to return.”) What shines through, however, is the disillusionment the narrator feels, about both his own actions (“Look at the things I do”) and his worldly travels (“All exits look the same”). ![]()
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