Disarray:
“You know, I think Disarray is a song about struggling with your inner demons, or even the fear of not knowing where your life is going. When I was writing that I was just trying to work through some of my own feelings about living on this bus and touring with these guys, and making music and not really knowing two weeks ahead of me. So I was just kind of trying to figure out some confusion, I guess.” -Jason (listenin.org)

First Time:
“For me, I’ve been married for six years, so when I wrote that song it had this kind of young, energetic feel to it, and so I wanted to reflect the lyrics of when I first kind of fell in love when I was like sixteen, seventeen years old, and it was like first butterflies, but it is, it’s a simple catchy little love song.” -Jason (listenin.org)

“It just felt urgent, like a first kiss, a first love, like the first time you realize there’s more to that relationship than you thought. I had to dig a little for that one, but I find myself at a place where I can write stuff that’s a little deeper than your average love song in terms of emotion” -Jason (lifehousemusic.com)

Whatever It Takes:
“It’s about relationship, and just the turmoil sometimes that you go through and just the feeling of when you get in a fight with someone and you feel like you screwed up or let someone down, but not giving up on a relationship, just doing obviously whatever it takes to move foreward. I think for me personally, it’s like our generation our parents just have a plan B. You know, they give up too easily, and I think it’s my statement of like, I don’t want that to happen to me.” -Jason (listenin.org)

“Yeah, it’s definitely from personal experiences of being in that relationship for seven years now. It’s kind of a difficult subject matter when you’re a touring musician and trying to balance home life with touring and make it work. It can bring a lot of frustrations sometimes. …It’s just learning to give and take, and I’ve had to do a lot better at communicating.” -Jason (BusinessWeek)

Who We Are:
“I feel like life is a journey, and as soon as you think that you’ve figured everything out or you know exactly where your life is going, it’s like what’s the point of living anymore, you know. It’s like getting there is half the fun. I mean not knowing your future and not knowing what tomorrow is going to bring is great, because there’s something to look forward to.” -Jason (listenin.org)

Broken:
“I took a trip out to Nashville, Tenn. This was actually the last song to make it on the record. I flew out to Nashville with no other intention than to see my friend, who is on a dialysis machine everyday. He basically needs another kidney. He’s going through a second kidney transplant. It broke my heart to see him like that and basically inspired me all at the same time. I hung out with him that day, and I went back to my hotel room, and I was really restless. I just couldn’t sleep. It was one of those songs I really look forward to writing, because it almost wrote itself. I woke up at three in the morning, and I just got out the hotel paper, and I just started writing. It basically happened in 15 minutes, and I hadn’t written a song like that, that happened that fast, since Hanging by a Moment.” -Jason (amp.az interview)

The Joke:
“I read this article awhile back about this kid that was bullied every day. He lived in the U.K., and basically he committed suicide, and I tried two or three times to come up with a story from a narrator’s perspective.” -Jason (amp.az interview)

“The song is a little dark, but I felt really compelled to write that song as a warning. These kids can never escape it.” -Jason (Daily Trojan)

Make Me Over:
“Sometimes you’ll do anything to be in love, even becoming someone else.” -Jason (lifehousemusic.com)

Bridges:
“Actually, that’s probably one of the only ones that I drew inspiration from my father about. And I’ve had a couple of friends that I’ve lost contact with over the years, you know. It seems like sometimes you see people’s true colors when the years go by, and you see what relationships are strong and that you’re going to have forever, and the ones that are just kind of fleeting moments in your life, and I don’t know but, it’s easy to point the finger when you lose a relationship out of a fight or whatever, and Bridges is kind of like, the lyric ‘We both lit the match that burned the bridge’ to me is just kind of saying — you know, it was both of our faults, and lets just be cool with each other, and we don’t have to hate each other.” -Jason (listenin.org)

Learn You Inside Out:
“The three of us were trying to come up with new ideas all day and we were creatively tapped out and ready to go home. I sat down at the piano and came up with these chords. Then Rick started playing a drum groove, Bryce chimed in with a cool bassline, our engineer hit ‘record’, and we literally had the song done in 15 minutes! You never know when the inspiration will hit or that kind of magic will happen. But that’s what we love about what we do.” -Jason (Songwriter Universe Magazine)

Storm:
“Storm is one of our oldest songs that I wrote when I was sixteen, just about kind of leaning on my faith to get me through a very difficult time of feeling really isolated.” -Jason (listenin.com)

“We love the idea of the title, surrounded by negative space, like the a cappella beginning. Because when you’re lost in confusion, no matter how much is going on around you, you’re still alone.” -Jason (lifehousemusic.com)