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Basically, I hadn't really planned on writing a song like this but the chorus just came to me one night as I lay in bed thinking. The line I'm a son of a coal mining man came to me and I got up out of bed, picked up my voice recorder and sang the lyrics and melody to get it on tape. My dad worked in coal mines and underground since before I was born and mom always kept my brother and me in line as much as she could& So the song just kind of started writing itself once I did that and I had most of it done before my head hit the pillow that night. This song sums up who I am, how I grew up, and what I'm all about, this is me, hope you like it!
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Simple Life is me thinking about growing up in my hometown, Petersburg, IN. At the time I had moved away to have a career and I was thinking back on the things I had experienced growing up there. It was a great place to grow up and it gave me character and taught me the things that have pushed me forward in life. In our small community time moved a little slower and I feel it gave me more room to be an individual. We didn't have a whole lot of money, but my folks made sure we never went without. You learned how to do most everything yourself because it was necessary. I would never trade that I can't put a price on what growing up there taught me. I hope everyone can relate to this song because it's really a state of mind. We all have a yearning for a simpler time in our lives.
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I'm a single guy and I haven't had a serious girlfriend in my life for a while so I had to go back to my writings. I wrote this song about 5 years ago when I had a good woman in my life. It's about those intimate quiet moments that you share with someone special. I got the idea one Sunday when we were spending time together and the words and melody just started coming to me. Coffee brewing on the counter&it can wait another hour& I really wanted a love song that had true feeling and love behind it not just a feeling that I tried to recreate on a page& I do dream of having a wife and a family one day, it's something I look forward to very much and it'll happen in time.
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I was sitting in my house with cabin fever because I had temporarily lost my driver's license AND I had a blood clot in my leg so I was pretty well confined to the house for a long while. It was February in Indiana, snowing and colder than a well digger's ass. All I could think about was a time soon when the sun would come out and I could have some fun again! I live close to Lake Monroe in Bloomington, IN and in the summer time we spend the weekends floating on the water and kicking it up right. Thinking about that time gave me the idea for this song and since I couldn't go anywhere I started writing and this song is the product of that time. I had a lot of fun writing this in the midst of all of the bad crap that was going on with me at the time.
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I grew up with classic country but I'm a metal head at heart. I had this tune running around in my head, kind of an Alice In Chains meets Bill Monroe thing. As a kid I listened to a lot of Conway Twitty and I loved the idea of his song Tight Fitting Jeans so I wrote my own version. This song is basically a country boy trying to pick up a women who is way out of his league! I wanted it to have a hard riff and a metal sorta feel to it&with fiddle, banjo, and steel of course! Guys, don't try this at home
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This song came about when I was doing some major reflecting on my life. Most of us have experienced a time in our lives where we didn't make the best decisions and learned how NOT to do things. Well, there was a time in my life when I had to learn some lessons and I got into some trouble and even landed in jail a few times for some stupid things I did. I was remembering this one particular time in my life when I'd gotten into trouble and I had just left the police station. My phone was dead, my vehicle was impounded, and I had no money in my pocket. It was cold outside and I was just sitting there freezing and watching people walking around downtown Bloomington and it started me thinking about a better time in my life. The lines for this song started coming to me& Nine years old on a family farm&. I was thinking about growing up on my grandfather's property and the feeling of not having a care in the world. We had the best times there growing up... This song is about those times in your life when you face difficult times and your memories of better times help to pull you through.
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A friend gave me the first line A phone number and an alibi and I took it and ran! I was just thinking of all the devious things a woman who is in a song called Hell on Heels could do! This one is all about my imagination running wild. To me there is nothing sexier than a woman in a pair of heels and a white t-shirt. This is a fun sort of dance song and just simply what I wanted it to be.
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I wrote this at a very dark time in my life. I just felt all alone at the time and wasn't happy at all. I was drinking heavily, my health was going down the tubes, and I just felt like I was closed off. Needless to say, I snapped out of it later but at the time it felt like I had hit an all time low. This song is about hitting the bottom but still going on with life. Going through the motions when you don't feel like it and knowing you have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and keep on going. I think everyone can relate to this song at some point in their life.
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I had just moved into a new house that I had built myself, it had been a really busy time. I was going through some things moving in and came across the Bible that my mother had given me on my birthday when I was a younger. I hadn't seen it in a while and it just hit me& I should probably pull this out and read it! The premise of the song is don't judge a book by its cover. Don't judge me by what you see me doing or how I appear, because deep down inside I know what I know and I know about the good deep down inside me. The line goes&. I know I'm a sinner but there's a saint inside of me .
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This song is just the thought of being on the road and missing someone you want to be around. You are leaving them, yet you can still feel them around you. A family of my own is one of my dreams& Playing music is this thing that really drives me and is always with me but there are also the thoughts of family that I want, but that I just don't have yet. Music is the only constant in my life right now though and that's what this song is about. I'm sure other people will listen and they will relate this song to their own life with their dreams and aspirations and the sacrifices that are made.
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This song was inspired by me sitting there by myself writing and thinking about a girl that I was in a back and forth relationship with for many years, and we never got it together. At the point when I wrote this song, we'd been on and just recently off again. The song started out with a pissed off tone (as those kind usually do) and it came out of my head like, I'm sitting here alone and you're with him &what am I doing?! I thought it out and I was really sitting there alone, hurting and wishing that the outcome wasn't what it was and knowing that I would have done anything to make it different&
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