That was a really heartfelt song that was written out, it’s a song that Jimmy actually came to us with musically, and I’m pretty sure he actually said “welcome to the family” when he demoed it out. That song is, We know how you’re feeling. There is someone very close to them that they’re losing, every day. We have a song, “Welcome to the Family” - we realized for the first time in our lives that people go through this every day around the world. It was written for a soldier, and about a soldier’s death, and it became kind of a new meaning. Then you get songs like “Danger Line” that was I believe already written as well, but it kind of took on a new meaning. Like on “Nightmare,” those are very much the lyrics Matt had already written. He liked those lyrics, so we didn’t change them. There were two songs that Matt had already written lyrics for before Jimmy’s passing, and Jimmy was a part of that, too. When you’re concentrating on just the music, you’re not thinking about anything else. It was a blessing that we didn’t know that was going to happen. We went into the studio, and it was so therapeutic. So after he passed, we knew that we had to continue this record and get it out there, because he would have wanted us to do that.
He was really proud of the work that he had done. We went into the studio like any other time, just ready to write and get excited about a new record, and Jimmy was super excited. The lyrics became a tribute to Jimmy and how we were feeling at the time, and as that happened, it became a much darker record than we’ve ever written before. About a week or two before we were going to hit the studio, Jimmy passed, and everything changed. It was going to be a concept album originally, and the music was 100 percent written.
We wanted to make a heavier, more concentrated album. He was there for every single song, and had his hand in every single piece of music that was written for this record. This album was very much a record that we wrote 100 percent with Jimmy.
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