BEHIND THE SONG:
I came up with a riff that had a nice slide into a chord and then a pull-off. Sitting on a bridge over Williamson Swamp Creek in Jefferson County one mild winter’s afternoon, I played the riff to Steady Eddie and he said it needed lyrics about being on the run. He used the phrase you better run! and I liked it.
This was another song where the music came first and was pretty much finished before the lyrics began, other than Ed’s you better run! directive. I decided that I didn’t want the song to be running from fear but discarding fear that may hold us back from doing things that could leave us feeling vulnerable – like writing and performing songs!
The song starts by telling fear its time preventing from stretching was over and then moves on to be about fear of being alone if we open up too much. It finishes with the idea of maturing and leaving behind loved ones as we have to step out into the world and try our own thing, how that can be scary and how for me music is a salve to calm the anxiety.
- Frunkie le Bassist