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█▓▒░Substance and alcohol use and abuse are more than modern science, academia and medicine want us to believe. Addiction is real, but no one is an addict for life. The system just slaps you with a label for life. That doesn't heal. I hope this song can at least spark a conversation that can.
— Chad Lewine
Snapshot of a person's regular substance use/abuse summed up in a simple question: if we know it is wrong, why don't we stop?
Choose lit, yeah we all choose lit
Choose lit, why we all choose it?
Choose lit, yeah we all choose lit
You say it ain't right, but we all choose it
I wrote this as a response to people on social media getting mad at me for pointing out harsh, deep or uncomfortable truths about society.
— Chad Lewine
"Don't shoot the messenger" in song form. A song for the whistle blowers, caller-outers, and loud mouths that speak the hard truth.
Don't blame the ocean for the salt
Don't blame the summer for the heat
Don't blame, don't blame me
Don't blame, don't blame me
I originally wrote this song about a friend who relapsed in 2013. Little did I know I was going to experience my own substance abuse episode almost ten years later.
— Chad Lewine
Mirroring the thoughts of a substance user/abuser/addict and asking the collective why narcotics and substances are so prevalent in our society.
Why the drugs got us? Pop and lock jaw
Slurring words, climbing higher
Body's on fire, joints on ice
Bodies on fire all night, dark nights
I wrote this when I realized I needed a house because because I didn't feel comfortable/free to make music and sing how I wanted to in apartments anymore.
— Chad Lewine
A song about the desire for sovereign, owned housing in a broken socioeconomic system.
I, I wanna buy, I wanna buy
I wanna buy a house, wanna buy a house by 35
Thirty five, I wanna thrive
I wanna stay alive, I wanna buy a house by 35
The experience of producing this song with Mike Rogers was invaluable. It's a fan favorite, just like Life is a Ride.
— Chad Lewine
A song about having a crush (or more like being obsessed with someone), wanting to know that they feel the same way, and relying on the old adage of "if you love it, let it go."
Let go of it, do my thang
And I know you'll come back to me like a boomerang
Like a boomerang-rang-rang, like a boomerang
Like a boomerang-rang-rang, like a boomerang
One of the few narrative style songs I've written. I was so close to reliving my middle school "straight guy" fantasy (that turned into a reality) but this time, he got away. Never heard from him again. Everything in the song is true, by the way.
— Chad Lewine
Narrative song of an exciting first encounter at a party that leads to a platonic sleepover, leaving the narrator high and dry.
