We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead.
We became the songs we wrote.
About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.
I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.
We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.
It's unfortunate we've never been just songwriters.
With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically.
I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.