Behind the Songs: You'll Be Mine

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Richard Butler (on being asked which song from Made Of Rain is his favorite): "I'm not sure if I could pick a favorite. I can tell you that 'You'll Be Mine' evolved nicely from original form and became a song I'm quite fond of." (Electrypop 2020)

Tim Butler: "It came together in the studio. The demo of it was Richard, a drum machine and guitar sample. It was actually the last song we put down. It came together really well. It has a vibe of 'All Tomorrow's Parties' by the Velvet Underground to me. It's a bit of a departure for us from what we're known for." (Forbes 2020)

Interviewer: "It's cool the way [the Made Of Rain album cover] mixes an old image of a sculpture with the new element of graffiti."

Richard Butler: "Yes, that's what I like about it. Actually, Cooking Vinyl made a video, in-house I believe, using that sculpture in a 3D way and it works beautifully. It's for the song 'You’ll Be Mine', it's on YouTube." (Hot Press 2020)

Interviewer: "You've said that you really don't write topical songs. But is there anything we can take away from the themes on Made Of Rain that might relate to the craziness of our world right now?"

Richard Butler: "I couldn't have foreseen COVID. But in retrospect, when I listen to something like 'You'll Be Mine,' which is basically a song about death, it seems to be fitting with the mood of the times." (Magnet Magazine 2020)

Interviewer: "I've heard the first four singles that have been released ["Don't Believe", "You'll Be Mine", "No-One", and "Come All Ye Faithful"] and I really loved them. It seems [Made Of Rain's] going to be an 'all killer no fillers' album."

Paul Garisto: "Thanks and believe me, the best is yet to come." (Melody Lane 2020)

Richard Butler: "I love that one. That was one I wrote with Tim and we built it up in the studio and Richard Fortus actually plays violin. It had a very Velvet Underground feel about it, especially when Richard Fortus put his violin on there. So it just built up from there and then we put some taiko drums on it. That took off to a whole new level and it became something else entirely." (Out Of The Box (Q104.3) 2020)

Interviewer: "In one of your newer songs, 'You'll Be Mine,' you have the lines, '[Don't] be surprised when every second has its place and all your days are yesterdays.' Can you talk about those lyrics?"

Richard Butler: "Yes. It's basically alluding to death, and 'you'll be mine' is death saying 'you will come to me.' It's a little grim." (Songfacts 2020)

Interviewer: "I'm loving the new songs. And while there's a very different feel between 'Come All Ye Faithful', 'No-One', 'You'll Be Mine' and 'Don't Believe', the latter I have to say is classic Furs from the opening bars, even before Richard's voice comes in."

Tim Butler: "Err, yeah, I think so. Some of it's more classic, but I think the sound of the whole thing was influenced over the long hiatus we had by the music around us, so of course it's going to seep into what you write, and I think it's very current but still very much Furs."

Interviewer: "I agree, and those first four releases from [Made Of Rain] suggest that wide range. Are those tracks fairly indicative of the LP as a whole?"

Tim Butler: "Yeah, I think everyone will be very pleasantly surprised and we're very, very happy with it. It's a typical Furs album in that it goes from all-out rockers to ballads and back again. That keeps you interested. If an album's all 'balls to the wall' or all laidback, you tend to lose interest. But hopefully this will keep people interested from beginning to end." (WriteWyattUK 2020)

Richard Butler: "'You'll Be Mine' was basically a little ditty that Tim had written the music for and I did the vocals for, and in the studio – with Richard Fortus's help, obviously – it turned into this kind of epic creature." (Yahoo! 2020)

Rich Good: "I love listening to [the audience] on ['You'll Be Mine']... it's taken on some new power in the live setting." (Instagram 2022)

Paul Garisto: "The only part of the production that I played a part in on ["You'll Be Mine"] was just coming up with different parts. For instance, the producer who really put that song together, he asked me to come up with a simple tom beat to get the song going and he would give me cues of what he wanted to hear and I'd come up with different parts. All that stuff was edited together." (Coffee Time News 2024)