What My Songs are About

Wondering what my songs are about? These are the song insights of all 10 songs on my album, "Identity".

Goodbye Jupiter-
Jupiter is massive, in fact 1,320 Earth's can fit inside it. Jupiter serves as that huge void in your life, you can't seem to overcome. To me, it symbolizes a girl I really liked but couldn't get her to reciprocate. I thought I could change her, win her over, but it was a failed attempt. Saying "Goodbye" relieved that void in my life. After all, some scientists theorize that Jupiter was a failed star.

Vaccine-
The average person thinks as many as 50,000 thoughts a day. Many of these thoughts are negative and self-destructive. I believe that all of the inner tension in your life is created by your thoughts. Your thoughts make you ill and your thoughts make you cry. They make you stop short of your dreams and make you compromise for what you hate. The cure to all of this, the "Vaccine", is within you. It’s "Medicine in the wind."

She Wanted to Change-
This song is a tale of one woman reflecting on her past, present, and future stages of her life. Envision her looking in the mirror wondering why her life didn’t turn out the way she hoped. She searches deep within her eyes for the answers to how she let her life become what it is, where all the time has gone, and if it’s too late to change. What she doesn't understand is that, you can't expect a change if you continue doing the same things over and over again.

War with Your Love-
War associates with pain and love with pleasure, yet you can feel pain through pleasure and pleasure through pain. Love can be so fierce, it’s painful. It can be like a quest that requires an arsenal of artillery. It’s a chess match with no strategy, no rules, and no turns. I haven’t found love yet in my life, but the war for it won’t stop me from seeking it.

Rather Be Naked-
This song illustrates "Identity" at its finest. I would be more content having nothing and doing what I love than to have abundance doing what I hate. I am mine. I own myself and everything that blossoms in my life. I will never compromise to someone else's expectations of me. I will never surrender. As the chorus states, "Take off my clothes, I'd rather be naked, than to dress like you. Got a voice of my own, its not to be mistaken, to sound like you,” I am an individual embracing my identity.

Hold on Tight-
This song was inspired by the commotion of Hollywood city life outside, while I sat inside, alone. It’s a song of being a hopeless romantic, and how there are many of us that feel this way. For every bolstering laugh on the street, there's someone in their sweats, watching a TBS movie on a Friday night. For every toast raised in a nightclub, there's someone reading a book in bed on a Saturday night. The message is that, whatever loneliness you are feeling, it will pass if you hang in there. I better believe it because I find myself in the latter of the situations.

Dancing Vampires-
I wrote Dancing Vampires while reading the book "The Historian", which is a story of a man and his accomplices’ quest to find Dracula in present day Europe. I love history and all of its grit. This song speaks of primal human instincts. We are very spiritual human beings, deep human beings, and we feed on desire. The song is a trip. It attempts to take you on a spiritual journey of sacrifice, cravings, and passion.

I Don't Bite (Too Hard)-
Believe it or not, the main riff of this song was inspired by 50 Cent's "In Da Club" song. Now before you throw a hissy fit, know that I don't listen to rap. In fact, I don’t care for it. The content of the song is about evolution. There are two things that boggle my mind more than anything: space and evolution. No matter how many technological advancements we make, we will always be animals. Within us lies all the same primal behaviors and desires as the tiger that's locked in its cage. We thirst, hunger, lust, and drool. This is the most sexual song in the album. As humans evolve, our behaviors remain the same.


Geronimo-
Perhaps one of my favorite historical figures is Geronimo. He was a leader by rebellion. Historical figures such as he can never be erased. The song relates to our desire to be something more than our bodies. It’s a longing of significance, where our name fills the atmosphere until the sun burns out. You can catch a man, hunt him down, cause him pain, stretch his face, but you can’t erase his name.

Living for Two-
This is the most personal song of the album. It deals with my struggle to kill the side of me that doesn't align with who I aspire to become. The best of me is within me, but so is the worst of me. We all have habits that are destructive to our emotions and outcomes. You may not realize this, but they can be as simple as how you drink your coffee in the morning. Maybe these dual personalities keep you on your feet. After all, I am a Gemini.