00:00Gravity's Union. It's sort of what informed the process that is sort of
00:05happening now in the records that we're putting out. You know, we're really sort
00:09of tributing the demo process, the writing process of the song. So any
00:14records you hear now, you kind of have a bit of the inception of the song. You
00:21know, that one to me personally, it combines my fear of driving with also
00:28the loss of my uncle. Years and years ago when I was much younger, my grandfather
00:34experienced the car accident of his son and I feel like somehow in, you know, the
00:42family that sort of spilled into my, you know, my fear of driving. You know, and
00:49and so that that is a that's a big one. So I find myself not driving very much just
00:54because I don't want to accidentally hurt anyone that might be a passenger in the
00:59car. It's tough to say if Gravity's Union is a fan favorite. I mean, I think it is. I
01:04know it's a favorite to me just because, you know, it's I think the composition is
01:09very interesting. It's the song that I knew when I wrote it that would really
01:15benefit, you know, Josh coming into back into the band. There's just something
01:21about it, like from the vocal delivery. I mean, that is from the demo. That is the
01:25day I wrote the song. I was sick. I thought I couldn't. There was no way I was
01:29going to recreate that character in the studio. So I decided to keep that, you
01:35know, even the rig that I used to record the guitar, which was a it was like a
01:41Steph Carpenter eight string into a Death by Audio Interstellar Overdrive into a PV
01:49special 130. Like I remember this stuff because this is the day I wrote it. You
01:53know, it's the stuff that I don't remember when we go into the studio and
01:56later try to recreate. I feel like that to me, I'm not really connected to nearly as
02:01much as the day I write these songs. So that's what I find so special about that
02:06song because, you know, we ended up kind of doing that process with the later
02:09records. Cyrus Amory is loosely based on my grandfather. So when in the 70s his son
02:16was, you know, got into a terrible car accident. My grandfather was the one that
02:20was in the ambulance with him when his son passed. And, you know, it was very, very
02:27rarely was it talked about in the house. And so when I created the character of
02:32Cyrus Amory, I gave bits of my life and the experiences of my family to that
02:37character. And, you know, one was that car accident. And in that car accident was
02:43instead of it being the son, it was actually the wife with child who also my
02:52grandfather lived 40 years of his life without his wife. So that was that
02:56connection, you know. But yeah, it's an experience that the character Cyrus has, but
03:01it's very much based on the experiences my life, my family have gone through.
