I don’t personally have a whole lot of time for Valentine’s Day, but that doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate some of the lovely things that go along with it. Like candy hearts. And grade-school valentine’s cards. Remember how your grade school teachers had you make funky little boxes made out of construction paper on Valentine’s Day, and then you and your fellow classmates would go around during recess and drop little cards with cheeky cartoons on the front into your friends’ boxes? It was like every year, your local elementary school decided there should be a referendum on how popular you were, with candygrams serving as votes. But even if you were one of the unpopular kids and you only got a couple of cards—elementary school was rarely so harsh as to leave a kid cardless—you could soothe the burning hole where your heart used to be by stuffing your face full of cinnamon hearts and burning a hole in your mouth instead.

To candy hearts, grade-school valentines, and innocent twee sentiments, I give you this early Dressy Bessy track. “If You Should Try to Kiss Her” comes from their first album, 1999’s Pink Hearts Yellow Moons. And if you can’t immediately offer up the missing elements from that title, then obviously you never ate your Lucky Charms as a kid—clearly Dressy Bessy were aiming for a particular aesthetic on this album. Though the Denver band rocks harder and faster these days, in some ways there’s no replacement for the twee-overload sugar rush of Dressy Bessy’s early days, and it doesn’t get much twee-er than this. So if you’re in need of a Valentine’s Day change of venue, try going back to second grade, and let Dressy Bessy be your time machine chauffeurs.

And when you get back, save some candy hearts for me.