Neon Trees front man Tyler Glenn revealed that his long-lost high school romance made its mark on the band’s latest album, Picture Show.

On the moody “Close to You,” Glenn sings “I still got my eyes on you baby/I wanna be close to you.”

He shares the inspiration behind the track, saying, “I drifted back to being 17 with my high school girlfriend in her parents’ house when we weren’t supposed to be in there because they were out of town. And we were dancing, and we used to buy strobe lights from party city and we put ‘em on and we were dancing – I forget what we were dancing to. But basically that song was written about that time when me and her first started dating and realizing we were in love with each other. So, that song is about that intimate, maybe, 90 minutes of my life.”

He also explains how his experience writing the song added to his nostalgic state of mind.

“I wrote it over the course of a European into an Australian tour and so when I hear the song I think of the places wrote it, like in Spain, in Sydney. I had fallen off the stage in Holland and cracked my front teeth and so I waited to go back to America to fix my grill so I was sort of in this weird mentality where I thought my mouth was always going to be effed up. I was in sort of a very lonely place.”

Guitarist Chris Allen also explains how he achieved the unconventional melodies that compliment Glenn’s emotional lyrics on the track.

“I had a lot of fun experimenting with some tones on that one. I was determined to order these metal picks on line. Well, first I searched every guitar shop in the L.A.-area. I ended up trying an aluminum pick, and the tone just shows it. You couldn’t get that sound with anything else.”

Neon Trees are on tour now.

June 22 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Park Zoo

July 9 – Philadelphia, PA – Theater of Living Arts

July 10 – New York, NY – Webster Hall

July 11 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club

July 13 – St. Louis, MO – Fair St. Louis

July 14 – Nashville, TN – Cannery Ballroom

July 15 – Cincinnati, OH – Bunbury Music Festival

July 17 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues Dallas

July 18 – Austin, TX – La Zona Rosa

July 21 – Billings, MT – Babcock Theater

July 27 – Seattle, WA – Showbox at the Market

July 30 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern

August 4 – Milwaukee, WI – Wisconsin State Fair

August 5 – Cleveland, OH – House of Blues Cleveland

August 7 – Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel

August 8 – Jacksonville Beach, FL – Freebird Live

August 10 – Fort Lauderdale, FL – Revolution Live

August 11 – Orlando, FL – House of Blues Orlando

August 14 – Detroit, MI – Majestic Theater

August 15 – Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom

August 17 – Providence, RI – Lupo’s

August 21 – Allentown, PA – Crocodile Rock

August 22 – Pittsburgh, PA – The Altar Bar

August 23 – Geddes, NY – New York State Fair

-Nee-Sa Lossing, CBS Local

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