I heard also that there's an interesting story behind "The Gamblers Try Their Hand At International Diplomacy".
Yeah. On a rough overview, that song's just about how it's really weird to go Europe, especially being a band from Texas because everyone kind of thinks that it's your personal fault that George Bush got re-elected. I swear I voted against him. My parents didn't, but I did. And it kind of felt like the feeling over there was like "we love your band, we love all of the art and music and movies that America creates, but we hate your country and we hate you for letting George Bush become president." It's just something that we dealt with.
Specifically that story comes from, we were staying in this kind of band hostel. It was just the band and some friends that we made on the trip that were travelling with us, and we went to bed, and the next thing I knew these French people came in the room and started having sex in a bed right next to me. I didn't really know what to do, I went and woke up our tour manager and I said, "hey, can you tell them in French to leave?" And he started to tell them and the woman said, "No, you do not have to tell us this. I understand English." So I kind of backed down and said, "Hey, I'm sorry, it's just that we've got a lot of travelling to do tomorrow, and then we have a show, and we have to go travel to the airport, and I'm not going to get to sleep for a long time, and we don't know you, and this is kind of weird." And she's like "Oh, it's fine."
But then her boyfriend, or her lover or whatever, started freaking out, just cussing me out. And I thought there was about to be a fight, I was standing there in my boxers, and he was half-naked putting on his pants. We're yelling at each other, and he starts swearing about Texas, and how Texas is horrible and it's useless.
And I kinda had been joking about saying this the whole time, but I fired back with, "You know what? You'd be speaking German if it wasn't for us right now." And that set him off even worse. So it turned out to be this horrible night. We kinda had to sit guard by the door in fear of this guy. He eventually went and got friends and was banging on the door, and it was just a rough night.
So, what's next for you guys?
Lots of touring. Actually, we're shooting a video this weekend, and then we go out and hit the road next week, and we're out and about for most of the summer, kind of bouncing around. We're going out with the Bronx for a little bit, we're going out with this band Only Crime, that has guys from the Descendants in it. We're going to do some Warped Tour stuff, playing some festivals. We're just going to bouncing around, all over. And I'm going to be healing my left hand.
Any closing thoughts?
Yeah let French people finish having sex before you ask them to leave. Go ahead and just wait it out. They'll appreciate it. They'll like you more for it in the end.
