The time is now to move beyond the shadows of the meadow, and forevermore live onward, etc.
When I was 19, I had this reoccurring dream.
And it would be me waking up naked in random areas, like in the desert or in a meadow.
And at the end of the dream, I would always find something with Onward carved into it.
Whether it was a piece of tree bark or a school desk, or even someone's skin.
And I tell my roommates, like, I had another Onward dream, another dream about Onward.
And it was kind of funny because I would fall asleep wanting to go back there.
Like, I would mentally put myself back into a state of mind where I wanted to go back into that dream, and I would.
And I'd wake up in the dream world and I could move myself. I knew where I wanted to go.
We have arrived in Seattle, Minnesota, Chicago.
Finally, that's when I decided just moving forward isn't enough anymore.
If I don't write a song in a short amount of time, like a week or two, I grow anxious.
And I get claustrophobic, and in a sense I feel like the world's kind of collapsing in on me.
And then the minute that something happens, and it's like a firecracker just blows up, and it's like, boom!
Oh my God, I have this feeling that I need to get something on paper, and I'll sit down and pump out a song, whether it's in two minutes or two days.
Once it's done, it's a complete release from anything that I've ever been worried about, whether I don't know where I'm going to sleep that night,
or I don't know where I'm going to end up in a week, that one song just will cure it all.
There's no other feeling that makes me happier than leaving somewhere.
Having people and playing shows and things like that, but the minute that I breach the city limit,
and there's nothing but an open road, and knowing that I'm going somewhere that I need to be, that's the drug for me.
And in the afters we turn to life, we've been a dreamer of the music, and in our hearts,
we've been a dreamer of the music, and in our hearts, we've been a dreamer of the music.
I feel like the way that I do write, it transposes to everyone, whether or not they experience the same thing
that I felt while I was writing the song.
The sadness, or the happiness that I felt through writing it, and the excitement,
and the party that went on that I wrote about that was one of the best nights of my life.
They can take it in any way they want, but it's theirs. I want to give it to them.
Yeah, we still are rockin', yeah, we still are rockin', yeah, we still are rockin'.
Thank you.
