You can become a prisoner to anything. This song was written around the same time "Autopilot" was. They sort of go hand in hand for me. Sometimes life seems so monotonous. I feel like I'm a prisoner to the routine of it all. However, this song can be about other things too- whatever people feel they are chained to. 

Prisoners

Life can become so monotonous if you let it. It’s easy to get caught up in a routine. Set yourself on autopilot and one day bleeds into the next. Time flies by and before you know it, you’ve accomplished nothing more than the absolute minimum. Hopes and dreams have disappeared, and in their place the world has put this strange idea that this is all there is to life.

Autopilot

When I think of the words scar tissue, I imagine the wounds that are left behind from something terrible that happened, whether they be physical or emotional. For me, it was both. This song is about the aftermath of several back to back events that took place when I was a teenager. For a while, I was left with these battle wounds that eventually turned themselves into music, and “Scar Tissue” was born..

ScarTissue

“Better Left Unsaid” is a song written about a broken heart. Not necessarily the kind you get when a relationship ends badly, but more so the kind of broken heart you get when you just can’t handle anymore of what life is throwing at you. During the time of my life when I wrote this song, I felt there were no words that even came close to describing how I felt. So, I put my feelings into music. They were “Better Left Unsaid”, and more accurately described through the sounds coming from my piano and guitar.

BetterLeftUnsaid

The title “Out of the Depths” is taken from Psalm 130:1. When I read this verse, I literally picture someone in a deep hole looking up. They are so far down, there is no way they could ever escape. I have often felt this “low” and hopeless, like I am so far down in a pit of despair that I can never climb out. When I start to feel this way, I read chapter 130 of the book of Psalms. In it I find comfort. I wrote the song “Out of the Depths” during one of those dark times; however, it’s important to remember that this is a song of hope. It’s about climbing out of that hole. It’s a sort of battle song about fighting your way out of whatever it is that is holding you down. It’s a song about coming “Out of the Depths”…

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