I'm Just Snacking

"I'm Just Snacking", is the lead single off Gus Dapperton's debut EP, "Yellow and Such". "I'm Just Snacking", was released May 16th, 2017.

Meaning
"The song describes two lost souls. They both share a complementary mindset when it comes to opulence, popularity, materialism, and love. Meaning that they don’t care much for wealth and image. The protagonist believes they can save each other if they grow together. The other lost figure insists that their love cannot be because they are only a lone, wandering, and tragic case. The protagonist insists that what they have is pure and it is the only path to endure. The song ends with an unclear future."

"When I write songs, I usually like to take interesting phrases that people around me say. In this case, me and my ex girlfriend were going to dinner one night, and I was like, “We’re about to go to dinner. Why are you eating?” She said, “I’m just snacking.” And I said, “Oh. True.” So that’s how the song derived and then I take, you know, the particular emotional state that we’re in and write a story about that. A fictional story about the feeling that it emotes. So, that’s how the song came about."

"The feeling I was trying to convey with this song was that I don’t think people should make excuses when it comes to love. Even if that involves being hurt or a tragic, I don’t know, falling out. I like to write songs in a very vague fashion so that people can take their own experience and put it into the song and even if we haven’t had the same experience, they can still take something from it."

Lyrics
He don't ask for

Oh, coin and cash for

Poise and panache for

Some broken bachelor, no

She don’t want none

Oh, gold and gilded

So all them children

View her with brilliant foes

Pardon for part in my sight

They see with a similar eye

Honey, I'm whole so what are we snacking for?

“I’m just a whore, boy, it’s only natural”

Well, I bet we’d look pretty outside

He won't build in

Thrones of vermillion

Whose woes is filled with

Pseudo civilians, no

She won't take up

Colorful patrons

Whose motif plays on

False admiration, no

Pardon for part in my sight

They see with a similar eye

Honey, I'm whole so what are we snacking for?

“I’m just a whore, boy, it’s only natural”

Honey, I'm whole so what are we snacking for?

“I’m just a whore, boy, it’s only natural”

Well, I bet we’d look pretty outside

Well, I bet we’d look pretty outside

Well, I bet we'd look pretty outside

Media
Music video:


 * I'm Just Snacking

Trivia

 * The song playing at the beginning of the "I'm Just Snacking" music video is another song by Gus, "Gum, Toe, and Sole". This song is from the "Yellow and Such" EP.


 * There was a Genius video where Gus explained the meaning behind the song, but it was made private for unknown reasons.