This song was actually written a while before it was recorded as "...And Now I Live In Athens." It was basically a response to a lot of people asking me about my former bandmates, whether I see them at all anymore, how it feels to have ditched them which I never saw it as the case. I just saw it as taking a breather. So this song was very much about what I felt was well worn territory within my songs: leaving it all behind! Wow! So it sat around for a little bit, and I really loved the song so I guess subconsciously I didn't wanna put it out with lyrics that I felt kinda half-assed about. Then one day I came into work and an owner at my job got everyone together in a circle and said "Look, I don't know who you guys are necessarily or what you do, but I feel like we're a family here." What I later had heard from other people I worked with was that he brought up the term "family" to justify making paycuts to some pals of mine as some kind of effort to "pull through together." By the end of the week, rumors had started floating around about a lot of people losing their jobs,and subsequently those rumors turned out to be true. About a day or two after this meeting, I was in the shower before a show and thought of the "pack and get out fast, no going out with a blast" line. I thought "hey... maybe that's a better start to the song." When I left the shower, the subject matter of the song changed dramatically to kind of suit where I was when I wrote THIS thing and I ended up being happier with this than most of the songs I've ever written.
This song was actually written a while before it was recorded as "...And Now I Live In Athens." It was basically a response to a lot of people asking me about my former bandmates, whether I see them at all anymore, how it feels to have ditched them which I never saw it as the case. I just saw it as taking a breather. So this song was very much about what I felt was well worn territory within my songs: leaving it all behind! Wow! So it sat around for a little bit, and I really loved the song so I guess subconsciously I didn't wanna put it out with lyrics that I felt kinda half-assed about. Then one day I came into work and an owner at my job got everyone together in a circle and said "Look, I don't know who you guys are necessarily or what you do, but I feel like we're a family here." What I later had heard from other people I worked with was that he brought up the term "family" to justify making paycuts to some pals of mine as some kind of effort to "pull through together." By the end of the week, rumors had started floating around about a lot of people losing their jobs,and subsequently those rumors turned out to be true. About a day or two after this meeting, I was in the shower before a show and thought of the "pack and get out fast, no going out with a blast" line. I thought "hey... maybe that's a better start to the song." When I left the shower, the subject matter of the song changed dramatically to kind of suit where I was when I wrote THIS thing and I ended up being happier with this than most of the songs I've ever written.