Funky Boo and I starting working together a number of years ago on his solo project
funkyboonutz.bandcamp.com
and his band Wigum
wigum.bandcamp.com
One of the first tracks he showed me was a song called Dreams. He had some really cool chord changes for a verse and he did this 'dddreeeeaaammmsss' thing with a high falseto that I thought was great.
the chorus got real jazzy and he wasn't really feeling the lyrics he wrote, but right from the start I could hear the potential for something really catchy within the idea.
The song fell on the back burner and we moved on.
Recently, we were sifting thru some of the old ideas and I remembered Dreams. Remembering the vision of the song, I asked Brando what he thought if I gave a shot at taking the basic elements and see if I could come up with new lyrics, a hook and a basic arrangement. He was very positive and open about it, so in the next week I got an inspiration for what is now the last stanza of the song.
That led me to the lyric idea and the demo I made to document it eventually became this track.