3 chords and the truth

I realized a long time ago that music doesn't affect everyone the same way it affects me. That not everyone needs music, I mean really needs music in their life.

I am fortunate, now, to be surrounded by people who are like me. People for whom, whether making or listening to, music is an essential, it's as important as the air they breathe.

This is a song about hearing The Clash for the first time. How it changed his life. They did that to me too. There has been a lot of music that has changed my life over the years. The Clash showed me that passion was the most important thing in music.

Music is the constant with me. I am always surrounded by it. And being able to make music, it's why I live.

That is what this song is about in the end, sure it's about The Clash, but it's about what music does to you. It's truth in a few chords and a lyric.

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And I carried these songs like a comfort wherever I'd go
And they was there when my summers was high
And there when she left me alone.
Saying, "the soul is hard to find"

And I never got to tell him so I just wrote it down
I wrapped a couple chords around it and I let it come out
When the walls of my bedroom trembled around me
This ramshackle voice over attack of a blues beat
And a girl, on the excitement gang

And this was the sound of the very last gang in town
As heard by my wild young heart like directions on a cold dark night
Sayin', "Let it out, let it out, let it out
You're doin' all right." - Brian Fallon

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There are few people who capture that truth in song.

"The Gaslight Anthem - "I'da Called You Woody, Joe"" (Watch on YouTube)