I used to be pretty selfish and be like, 'Come on! Let's go on tour! Who cares?' and now I completely understand how they feel. I haven't really been on tour since I've been dating my girlfriend, so I thought about what it would be like, and I can finally relate to the other guys who've been seeing their girlfriends for a long time.

Because as fun as it is, you will inevitably miss the people you love back home because you're gone for months out of the year. It's one of my favorites that we've written. We just wanted to write a song about missing the people we love when we're away. And that's kind of a beautiful thing, but it's pretty sad as well. And when I sing about looking at the stars, it's like the only connection you can really have with somebody when you're away from them is looking at the sky at the same time and looking at the stars and constellations and the moon. We feel selfish for going from our girlfriends, but this is our job. Being apart from someone that you love is one of the hardest things you can do, and you feel selfish for going. Especially with our work, where we're gone for months and months at a time. Bailey wrote the first verse-we tag-teamed a lot of the lyrics on this one-and it's about being apart from someone that you love and about someone slipping away through distance, which is a really shitty feeling. I think it might be obvious, but this is about missing someone when you're away from them. We like it a lot, and I think we're going to play it on tour, but I'm a little worried about it. It's one of a couple songs with a real post-punk vibe. It's just such a human feeling and I think it's a really beautiful song that, again, isn't really like anything else we've done. It's a really shitty feeling wondering how that person can sleep at night when you're tossing and turning and can't really move past them. But yeah, I see it as the opposite of 'For A Walk.' I interpret it as him wanting things to go back to the way they were with someone you love-wanting things to go back to how they used to be when you were happy and wanting to recreate a time that made you a better person. It was a little last minute, but we gave it a shot and we worked it out in the studio. It wasn't even going to be on the album because Bailey wrote it the third week in the studio. This was the last song we wrote for the album. So the title of this song is almost the exact opposite of the sentiment of the previous song…Įxactly. It's questioning how life would have turned out if you did say how you feel at that moment instead of running and hiding. We're usually cowards and just let things be, when if you stood up, your life could be completely different. That's what we should do, but we usually don't. So he wrote the first verse and I made the chorus extremely literal, just because sometimes you have to say it like it is and I wanted to inspire other people to go with their heart.

It's about wanting to express yourself to someone, and maybe start up a connection, but being absolutely horrified about doing that, because putting your feelings out there is an absolutely horrifying thing, because rejection is a real thing and it's something that nobody wants to feel. I'm sure a lot of people have felt that way. I took what he was writing as seeing someone-like maybe darting eyes with somebody-and just becoming completely infatuated with them but being unable to communicate that. Bailey actually wrote the first verse to this song and then he gave it to me to play with.

Balance and composure album