Strawberry Hill

Album: Shake! Shake! Shake! (2011)
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  • The band definitely has a message throughout the entire album, but where it rings most true is perhaps along the lyrical edges that intertwine between the tracks "Strawberry Hill" and "Sticks and Stones." While the latter sweetly reminds us that our reality is essentially what we make it to be, "Strawberry Hill" brings full circle the fact that reality can be a tough pill to swallow when it's not exactly what we want it to be.

    "'Strawberry Hill' is a fictional place in mind that I picture one may go when they are going through tough times," BRR lead singer Chris Henderson told us. I picture this place to have lots of distracting remedies to take one's mind off the issues at hand. I think the most distracting remedies end up being unhealthy, yet temporarily comforting. While it feels good to be up there, it's important to come down at some point and face reality."

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