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“Banana Pancakes” is about Jack and his lover enjoying a rainy day inside by relaxing and eating banana pancakes.
"It’s a wake-up-in-the-morning-and-make-breakfast-with-your-family kind of song. It started when my wife was busy doing something and I wanted to distract her. So I just started playing ‘You hardly even notice/When I try to show you this/Song it’s meant to keep you/From doing what you’re supposed to.’ I’d play her that every time she’d get sidetracked and I wanted to just hang out. Later, it just shaped into a real song. I started playing it live on the last tour we did before it was finished, and just kind of filled in parts with ‘Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah’ to get the crowd laughing. It’s just a real feel-good song and kind of silly.
But I try not to discard the silly love songs. I mean, it’d be easy just to say, ‘This one is too silly. I’m not gonna put it out there.’ But for me, it’s part of what I like to do — just make people have a good time and sing and get in a good mood. So I like to put a couple of those sort-of just straight love songs on there."
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