When I was going through my divorce, I didn't want my marriage to end. As I drove to sign my papers, it felt like I was "Walking the Mile" to my death sentence. The song is all about being accountable and responsible for the events that led to the dissolution of my marriage. I pray that the message behind the song will hit home and keep people thinking about the one they are with and how important they should be to them. When we choose others over our mates, the relationship will crumble because we become unreliable.

Summer's Gone was written about that summer between Boy and Man. That vacation that you and your friends go to the beach or wherever to blow off steam have one last shot at immortality. Hanging with friends, drinking some brews, having a summer fling...or flings and realizing that we have a lot of growing to do before we'd be good for anyone. Though I never had this experience because I joined the Army after graduation; I was inspired by all of the American Pie movies, and every other comical movie that roasts that summer. I hope you can reflect back with this tune and just smile because 99% of everyone in the world has done this.

I wrote this song after my divorce when I was looking back at events that had happened to me and how I would be viewed as I transitioned from one place to another. My Grandfather served in the Navy during WW2 on a hospital ship. I simply asked him where the picture was taken and I can remember him going back to that moment. Since he didn't talk, I was so curious as to what happened. What did he see? What did he do? Where in time was he? The second verse is about the life and things I have done in the warzone. It's a flashback to hell and survival at all costs. I felt that in war, to kill, you must hate. I forced myself to hate the "enemy" and that made my job so much easier. The pure emotion and reverence behind this song is to know that the men and women who serve our country deserve a real and special place in everyone who never have served, hearts. I am never afraid to tell someone off when they criticize the military members who are ordered to deploy and make a blood bond to do everything to make sure their friends come home. Even if that bond means giving their lives for their fellow soldiers.

I wrote this song after my divorce when I was looking back at events that had happened to me and how I would be viewed as I transitioned from one place to another. My Grandfather served in the Navy during WW2 on a hospital ship. I simply asked him where the picture was taken and I can remember him going back to that moment. Since he didn't talk, I was so curious as to what happened. What did he see? What did he do? Where in time was he? The second verse is about the life and things I have done in the warzone. It's a flashback to hell and survival at all costs. I felt that in war, to kill, you must hate. I forced myself to hate the "enemy" and that made my job so much easier. The pure emotion and reverence behind this song is to know that the men and women who serve our country deserve a real and special place in everyone who never have served, hearts. I am never afraid to tell someone off when they criticize the military members who are ordered to deploy and make a blood bond to do everything to make sure their friends come home. Even if that bond means giving their lives for their fellow soldiers.

I wrote this song back in 2005 while deployed to the middle of Iraq. I remember watching John Murtha and other senators arguing on national TV how our plan is flawed. They looked like incompetent pussies and were saying that the mission was not important. I was enraged by this because Americans have servicemembers laying on beds sick, dying, injured, shell shocked, mentally unstable and broken. While they lay there, some proud, some ashamed; they watch TV overseas and see these people minimizing their accomplishments. This song is about one man who just lays there and wants to die instead of listening this until the song explodes in the last chorus. Remember that if you never served, you have no opinion to taunt or confront a veteran of this war about your beliefs because we probably don't want to hear it. Enjoy.