Falling Up played in my hometown long before they hit it big. These guys are friends of mine and I've talked to Jesse and this is why he wrote the song.
When he played a show in Oklahoma it was right before Thanksgiving, and all he wanted to do was go home. He wanted to see his family, is friends, he was tired, and he really didn't want to play the show, none of them did. Well they played it and this girl came up to him after the show and she had this horrible scar on her cheek. It ran from her mouth to her ear... completely disfiguring her face. And Jesse signed what she asked him to and then they didn't really talk after that. But he was by himself later and she walked right up to him and said "You don't know what it's like to be me". It took him aback, cause she was right, he didn't know. And she told him that life is too short not to do what their doing, that she was glad that they had made it so far. She told him that she was in an accident with her mother, they were on the freeway, and hydroplaned. The Accident killed the mother. When Jesse asked her if she could change what happened, she said no, because she would have never found Christ any other way. Which is the bravest statement I have ever heard. So that is why Jesse wrote the song.
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Falling Up played in my hometown long before they hit it big. These guys are friends of mine and I've talked to Jesse and this is why he wrote the song.
When he played a show in Oklahoma it was right before Thanksgiving, and all he wanted to do was go home. He wanted to see his family, is friends, he was tired, and he really didn't want to play the show, none of them did. Well they played it and this girl came up to him after the show and she had this horrible scar on her cheek. It ran from her mouth to her ear... completely disfiguring her face. And Jesse signed what she asked him to and then they didn't really talk after that. But he was by himself later and she walked right up to him and said "You don't know what it's like to be me". It took him aback, cause she was right, he didn't know. And she told him that life is too short not to do what their doing, that she was glad that they had made it so far. She told him that she was in an accident with her mother, they were on the freeway, and hydroplaned. The Accident killed the mother. When Jesse asked her if she could change what happened, she said no, because she would have never found Christ any other way. Which is the bravest statement I have ever heard. So that is why Jesse wrote the song.
Thank you.
-Ashes