Track 1: Anywhere, Anytime Soon
Track 2: Take It All Back
Track 3:
Track 4:
Track 5: It Was Always You
Track 6:
Track 7:
Track 8:
Track 9: Not As Good As Cocaine
Track 10:
Track 2: Take It All Back
Billy: Once Nicky was gone, once we started writing the second album, things just felt…lighter. The band was doing great. We were selling out every show, and the venues were getting bigger and bigger. Daisy and I were getting along more than we were fighting. Things were good. A calm before the storm.
Daisy: I felt like I had both feet firmly on the ground for the first time in a while…maybe ever.
Billy: I knew Daisy was still messed up from her OD and maybe about what happened with Nicky. She didn't really talk about it with me after that first night, but I think she talked to Karen.
Karen: Nicky really fucked her up. Like did a total number on her head. And Billy wasn't helping. His saving people complex was out in full force and mix that with his "holier than thou" attitude [scoffs] you could just tell it was getting to Daisy.
Daisy: I just couldn't get it out of my head that I felt like the scales were tipped against me. Billy and I were always in a power struggle. There was always a push and pull, but once I OD'd and kicked Nicky off the tour…I felt like I lost all the cards in my hand.
Karen: She needed to get laid. I think I used the term "palate cleanser." Nicky was the last guy she had slept with, and she needed to erase him from her history.
Daisy: I mean, Karen was right. I was a goddamn rockstar. What's rock 'n roll without the sex, drugs, and alcohol? It's boring.
And sharing a bus with Billy? I'd have to hear him wake up and go for a run in the morning or come back late after a call with Camila and just sigh in his bunk and scribble love songs to her on his notepad. I was crawling up the walls. That energy has to go somewhere.
Billy: I was laying in my bunk after talking to Camila and Julia one night. I wasn't staying up to wait for her to get back, but I couldn't go to sleep, and not knowing where Daisy was wasn't sitting well with me. Everyone was still partying on the other bus–I could hear them–and I just kept wondering if she was over there–relapsing.
I tried to work on some lyrics for a song, but nothing was coming to me that night. At about 2:30 in the morning I decided to walk over there.
I saw Daisy coming off the bus with some guy. She was laughing, her fingers were threaded through his and his arm was looped around her waist. Her hair was a mess, he had her lipstick smeared all over his face and neck. It was clear what they had just done.
Daisy: So I finally decided to just go for it and do something reckless and fun for myself and there he is…Billy Dunne looking pissed off and disappointed in me. Like the fucking father-figure I never had.
Billy: He was some guy from the opening act. That dude couldn't play guitar for shit.
Daisy: I don't think we even said anything to each other. I'm pretty sure Billy just gave me that look like I was gum under his shoe and then turned around and marched back onto his bus. Paul (maybe his name was Paul?) turned to me and went, "Was that Billy Dunne?" And I said, "In the flesh. He's a real charmer right?" and we both laughed.
Billy: Daisy didn't come back to the bus that night. I just figured she was off doing blow with that guy.
Daisy: It was just a one night thing. Just to blow off some steam. I couldn't have what I wanted but at least for a little while I had something for myself. But I could tell from Billy's behavior that night that he was in a bad mood, so I stayed on the other bus. By myself. But I remember just lying in bed and getting angrier and angrier at the whole situation.
Billy: I slept like shit that night and woke up feeling hungover. That's what no one tells you about getting sober, sometimes you'll still wake up feeling hungover, and it just feels so unfair. You think 'if I'm gonna feel this shitty, I at least should have gotten drunk first.'
Daisy: I didn't see Billy until soundcheck that afternoon. He was on a tear.
Billy: I could barely look at her.
Daisy: He cornered me backstage, like chest-to-chest in my personal space and gritted out, "Did you get high last night?"
Billy: For some reason that question shocked her. She pushed me away–hard–and said, "What the hell are you talking about?" And I leaned in close to her again, trying to see if her pupils were blown out or if her eyes were bloodshot. I said, "You know exactly what I'm talking about. What the fuck were you doing last night?"
Daisy: He already knew I was trying to stay mostly sober…not that it was really any of his business. But, I told him I hadn't gotten high…because I hadn't.
Billy: So I said, "Okay, if you weren't high, what were you doing with Dan last night?"
Daisy: Was his name Dan? [Shrugs] Anyway, I gave him a look like 'are you really going to make me say it?' And he kinda backed off of me after that. He put his hands on his hips, stared at me, looked away, shook his head, and walked away.
Billy: I was just worried that she had replaced one reckless behavior with another.
Daisy: He was jealous…or something adjacent to jealous.
Warren: There was a weird tension in the green room that night. Something was off with Billy and Daisy. Usually it was easy to know if they were fighting because you'd hear them screaming at each other backstage right up until the show.
This time…they were just kind of avoiding each other–like the same pole of two magnets–just pushing each other away.
Karen: You'd think she had slept with his best friend or something. It was so obvious that he was angry at her for sleeping with Dave, and he had no right to be. He was being an asshole.
Graham: I just tried to stay out of a lot of the Daisy and Billy drama. I liked Camila and just didn't want to get in between anything.
Daisy: We kicked things off with "Regret Me," and I think we were both really vibing with the lyrics that night.
Warren: They were like, shouting the lyrics into their mics. It sounded good, but like an angry cover version of the song.
Daisy: I just remember looking over at Billy on stage while singing and thinking, 'who does he think he is? He's got everything he wants and he acts like it's not enough. Like it's not enough to be happy, everyone else has to be miserable too.'
Billy: I was watching her sing "Two Against Three" backstage when Karen came up to me.
Karen: Trying to talk to Billy when he was in one of his moods was risky. Daisy seemed to be the only one who could match him when he was like that, but I felt like I had to say something. I said, "I always loved this song. Daisy wrote it by herself, right?" and he made some grunting noise in agreement.
Billy: Karen said, "It's such a sad song about just wanting something of your own, but feeling like it's out of your control and in someone else's."
Karen: Billy looked down at me in a way that basically told me to shut the hell up, but I think I got through to him.
Billy: I love Karen, but I didn't need her explaining our own fucking songs to me.
Daisy: After the show, I went back to the bus with the rest of the band and Billy went to the other one. There was a moment where we both just looked at each other as we boarded opposite buses. I'm pretty sure Eddie said something because I heard Warren laugh behind me.
Eddie: I said, "Uh oh, mommy and daddy are still fighting." Their drama was always so ridiculous.
Daisy: Billy found me the next day before soundcheck. He said he was working on something and needed my opinion.
Billy: I was really bad at apologies back then.
Daisy: It was just the bridge of song. [Laughs] God he loved writing bridges. But it was the beginning of a track that would have been called "Take It All Back."
Billy didn't really ever say 'sorry' but he did write songs and this was the beginning of a good one.
Billy: I don't know, I had written the words down when I woke up from a dream in the middle of the night. They barely made any sense. I think they were something like:
"I guess you can give as good as you get / but what if I take it all back / and give you something better?"
