"Kiss You Dead" started with a verse riff. John, our guitar player, came up with it when he was jamming one day—he liked the way it felt and sounded and brought it to the band. The riff made me think about someone close to me and their current personal relationship—I'm not going to say who, because I'll get in trouble….. Anyway, it wasn't a very flattering take on that person's girlfriend.

The band jammed on the riff and lyrics and a melody line began to develop. We all decided the riff was a good verse and a chorus riff got added in. As we jammed on that, Bones, our bass player, came up with the bridge—a nice break from the rest of the song that set up the final chorus. We, then, we worked on the song structure. Dan, our drummer, worked in the drum fills to set up the choruses. We demoed the song and brought it to Eric Rachel, our producer, who thought the music for the chorus was too happy sounding. John changed the chords, giving the chorus a meaner feel and the band worked on it together and tweaked it to make it right.

The song was first called Eat You Alive but the word "alive" did not sound good in the melody line. We were in the studio recording the vocals and Eric said "Helena, you have to change the lyrics." I sat down wrote and bounced the ideas off Eric and our drummer, Dan. The song is about love and hate. I felt that the song title and main chorus lyric needed to be provocative. I came up with the title and then pieced together the rest of the chorus lyrics.

"Kiss You Dead" showcases a dark, mean vibe and a sing-a-long chorus that are running themes in Spider Rockets' sound.