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| Comments On: Invincible I wrote this song just as we parted ways with our old rythm section. the song is about longing for the old feeling of being certain and strong, and the sense of uncertainty about the future i had at that time. it kind of feels like a love lost song. in a lot of ways, being in a band is like having an intimate relationship with a few other people. you go through the same ups and downs and break-ups and all of that. - Joe Hedges - Invincible was written when former drummer Sam Drobrozsi left the band to pursue other goals. - A.J. - |
| Comments On: Blue Eyes The idea of a girl's blue eyes is a really old cliche. unfortunately i think that makes it easy for the meaning of this one to get lost. it is mostly about knowing someone so completely and imtimately you are almost on the brink of boredom. the longer you know someone, the further you have to dig to see that aspect of them that's new. to get to that burried memory or that weird habbit you never noticed. this song is a reminder to me that there are always some things about a person you can never totally know. they say eyes are windows to the soul. and i think sometimes it's the only place you can catch a glimpse of that intangible, unobtainable part of someone. - Joe Hedges - |
| Comments On: Float Away They say that women need understanding and men need support and reassurance. don't they say that? maybe not. but i definitely need reassurance. i am overly needy. i guess that's what the song is all about. i just want people closest to me to believe in me the most. it's a funny thing though, because as an artist, i also need those closest to me to help keep me grounded. the idea of floating away came from those old looney toons cartoons. i hope that doesn't ruin the song for you. i just kept thinking "believe in me, gravity, loony toons." in the cartoons, supposedly if you didn't obey the law of gravity you could float. what if you didn't believe in gravity. REALLY didn't believe in it. would you float away? gravity is of course a belief that people take for granted, but i expanded the song to all these other fantastic and not so fantastic things that people believe in. or don't. - Joe Hedges - |
| Comments On: One By One One by One is a song about urban sprawl. i first got the idea for the song while trying to look at mars. i think that was last winter, mars was closer to the earth than it had been in centuries. i was home in my little town for the weekend, standing in the front yard trying to see the planet. there is now this white haze that makes it almost impossible to see the stars. it's light pollution, and it's always been there, it just seems like it's gotten a lot worse since i was a kid. now it's hard to see any stars at all. maybe it's just that i notice the lack of stars more, now that i'm grown and cynical. either way, it got me thinking. if we keep building cities and putting in subdivisions where our fields used to be,eventually there could be no stars at all. i'm sure right now you almost never see them in some places, especially big metropolitian areas. that's sad! i love stars. the sky is something you would think we all have a right to. something that nothing can touch or screw up. but it isn't so. for one by one i just took this idea and went with it. i guess it's as much about my own cyncism and reluctance to accept change as the sky. one by one is the first song i wrote almost totally in my head. most of the melodies and lyrics. then went to the guitar and they just all fit together. i've been working this way more and more. - Joe Hedges - |
| Comments On: Like That Like That is a real departure for me lyrically. i wanted to write something that was sexy. mostly just to see if i could do it. one day i realized there was this whole part of me that i never really represented with a song. i wanted to keep it within the realm of a relationship, but i think it ended up vauge enough so that it's easily relatable to some random nightclub courtship. that wasn't really what i intended, but at a certain point it just started writing itself that way. i've always been interested in how the lines of sex and love blur, and i played a little with that idea in the song. that's an easy liberty to take if you truly love the person you are intimate with. - Joe Hedges - |
| Comments On: The Distance I think this is the oldest song on nostalgia. i wrote this just before our album was released on MCA. i tacked on the second half of the verse more recently after an arrangement change. it's mostly about the fall. i was just sitting looking out at the leaves and thinking. i get depressed and overly sentimental for no good reason in the fall. just the colors and smells. every year when those first few cold nights of the year move in it puts me in the strangest mood. at any given time there are a million things to be upset about, but in this song it's almost like the reason is having no reason. the feeling of being far away, but not knowing from what. Old Explanation: Every band needs a song that almost unbearably sad. this is ours. as i was writing, i was crying, so i knew there must be something to it. i think i have seasonal depression. i love the fall when i'm happy. when you're happy, the leaves and the smells are the greatest thing in the world. but if you're not, things just look bleak and dying. that was one of those times; it just felt as if nothing was going right.. the distance is the distance between where you are and where you want to be. or who you are and who you want to be. sometimes life feels that way. like you're running and running towards something, but you don't know exactly what, and it's never any closer. or as paul simon put it, "the nearer your destination, the more you're slip sliding away". - Joe Hedges - |
| Comments On: Just Right A love song about writing a love song. not a new idea i know, but it was definitely a cool way to work. i remember being exausted when i wrote this. i was just strumming this super-lazy 6/8 chord progression, and started singing "i'm playing guitar, you're asleep upstairs". maybe i was too tired to be creative. when i sit down to write, every once in a while i feel like i need to say something but sometimes i don't know what it is that i want to say. so i'll just start with where i am and what's happening around me. just right is very real in that respect. that's what's cool about it for me. it starts with the moment it was written, then flashes back and forward in time. in some ways it is the most intimate song i've ever written. i thought for a moment about keeping it between myself and my girlfriend, but as always i talked myself out of it. i think songs are meant to be shared. even the really mushy ones. - Joe Hedges - |
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