Bamberdost - Songs About Your "Girlfriend"

I learned a lot in the last 12 months... new experiences that recontextualize how I live the rest of my life. I wrote bangers. One after the other. Volcanically. Mad Jack and Chris Pingor killed it in the studio. Jaden from Chemical X and my boy Frog March made guest appearances. Chris's kids sing the choruses in Simple Life. My thirteenth full length record... SONGS ABOUT YOUR "GIRLFRIEND"

We dropped one tune a month for six months while we recorded about 15 songs in all. Four of them... Drawn In, Blood Moon, Simple Life, and Peace Tomorrow were written a year or two ago, but everything else I penned between March and October.

People have been so complimentary. Radio play. Record label meetings. A lot of love from all over the world. OffShelf.net paid me the ultimate compliments, none of the songs are skippable and I write about typical pop punk stuff with sophistication and insight. That article brought a tear in my eye. It's nice to cry a happy tear instead of tears worrying if someone's safe. The latter turned into a great song though.

Ultimately I couldn't have done it without having my time wasted and my heart broken. I used to have good intentions. I don't have any intentions anymore. I don't even know what's real. I've had my bell rung too many times. The arthritis is degenerating me. I feel like a Bond villain in my diminishing returns era. After 2.5 years of writing from my heart, it feels vampiric. The imposter syndrome is real. I believe that if I do this again, the stress will kill me. I penned a new song the other day. "Sisyphus and heart threadbare"

In a life full of mostly bad news, the love I'm feeling from this is recharging my soul. This is therapy. Ultimately, I want to laugh, I want to love, I want to play N64. I wish I was home, but I don't know where home is anymore.