Hanging By a Moment:
“It’s a spiritual song. It’s not the prom song it turned out to be, but when you’re writing a song, you never know how people are going to interpret it. But to me that song is totally spiritual.” -Jason (listenin.org)

“It’s a song about spiritual searching in my pursuit to get closer to God.” -Jason (forum)

Sick Cycle Carousel:
“It’s about my relationship with my girlfriend. There was a specific time when we felt the struggles of going through a relationship, of trying to communicate and going through all the things you go through to get to that point of real depth. I wrote the song during the most crucial time when we were either going to break up, or continue our relationship.” -Jason (theonlinemusicsource.com)

Unknown:
“The lyrics to Unknown to me, when I look at them on paper just kind of have a feeling of not knowing the future, and sometimes having faith that everything is going to be okay is hard sometimes, but it’s important to keep that positive mindset.” -Jason (listenin.org)

Somebody Else’s Song:
“Probably my favorite lyric is ‘I have somebody else’s thoughts in my head. I want some of my own.’ I guess that’s kind of feeling like when, I wrote that when I was really young and I was in the mindset of you have everyone around you telling you what to think and what to believe, but until it becomes your own, you’re really never going to be at peace. You have to kind of find out for yourself. And I think that’s one thing that, when you’re close with your parents, it’s easy to kind of lean on their beliefs and the way they live their life, but when you’re transitioning from like sixteen to eighteen, it really kind of — you gotta spread your wings a little bit.” -Jason (listenin.org)

Trying:
“The more people you get around in a group to all tell each other that they’re okay, the safer you feel, but to step out on a limb and realize that not everything makes sense sometimes, you know, but you just have to trust. That’s a hard place to be.” -Jason (listenin.org)

“I wrote Trying when I was 15. It’s about the same kind of spiritual searching as Only One. After my parents got divorced, I wrote the lyrics to it, then learned how to play guitar and came up with the melody. The song’s about finding your way in life. I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do, what I wanted to become, not just in music but also who I was as a person. I consider Trying my first song, the first one I didn’t scrap. The funny thing is, I can relate to it more now than I could back then. Sometimes I think, ‘Man where did that come from?’ I still feel the same emotion when I play it, so I guess it’s pretty timeless; people can relate to it, no matter how old they are.” -Jason (theonlinemusicsource.com)

Only One:
“I wrote Only One right after someone in my life did something I felt was totally wrong. It was a really tough time for me. I have these trails in my life, like my dad leaving and my not being with him anymore, and then this man, who I really looked up to, failing. Only One is about how sometimes people are just not there for you and you have to look somewhere else for guidance.” -Jason (theonlinemusicsource.com)

Simon:
“I wrote it about a friend of mine who basically got picked on all day. He was bullied pretty much day in and day out, and the whole school ganged up on him, and just telling me his story was really dark, and I connected to that for some reason. I think part of it was I grew up in this village in Hong Kong for three years when I was like seven, and I was the only white kid, and the kids used to just torment me and my sister. They’d really pick on us, and I think that always stuck with me and I kind of have a soft spot for people that went through a similar experience.” -Jason (listenin.org)

Cling and Clatter:
“It is kind of like about the chaos around you. This life is crazy, especially, you know like I keep talking about being on the road and having all these people around you. You almost have to fight for that quiet place.” -Jason (listenin.org)

Breathing:
“Breathing is a prayer. It’s really relevant. It’s got like multi-meanings, especially for right now and everything that’s happenning, you know — It can be like a spiritual song. Obviously it’s a love song, but to me it’s a prayer. Even in the verses it talks about finding your way back to sanity, and to me that represents just not really knowing where you’re going, but just being content with asking and in the journey.” -Jason (listenin.org)

“This is another love song that can be interpreted in a couple of different ways. The verses say. ‘I’m finding my way back to sanity again.’ So it’s like trying really hard and then getting back to the place you started from. Then the bridge says ‘I don’t want a thing from you / Bet you’re tired of me waiting for the scarps to fall off of your table to the ground.’ It’s kind of like not wanting anything from anyone, not hanging on every word they say and just having faith you’ll be able to ‘be here now,’ which is how the song ends.” -Jason (theonlinemusicsource.com)

Quasimodo:
“It almost has the same theme as Simon. …I think that the imagery of Quasimodo, obviously from The Hunchback of Notre Dame is, when you’re the outcast you kind of feel like a freak sometimes. There are a couple of songs that I write with those themes.” -Jason (listenin.org)

“Quasimodo is a character who’s chained down by people trying to get him to conform…He goes along with it ’cause he’s afraid. But by the chorus, he’s breaking out of that … So it ends hopefully.” -Jason (learningfromlyrics.org)

Somewhere In Between:
“Before my girlfriend and I got together, she had broken up with this guy. I’d been head-over-heels for her for years even though she was dating him. So they broke up, and I was like, ‘Man, if I don’t make a move now, I may never get a chance.’ I was always friends with her but never really could get a step further. So I started taking her out to dinners and stuff. She was a little bit on the rebound, but I think she had some feelings for me. We were at that point where we weren’t sure if we were dating or not, or even if she really liked me in that way. It was a very vulnerable time for me and that’s when I wrote Somewhere In Between. I poured all those feelings into the song. Then I played it for her and that was it — we were together.” -Jason (theonlinemusicsource.com)

Everything:
“It kind of sums up everything I’m about lyrically and in terms of my relationships and Lifehouse overall.” -Jason (theonlinemusicsource.com)