New Jersey Stage Issue 48 | Page 61

step will come to me… whatever the next thing I’m supposed to do will come to me.” “For me, it was a period of joblessness and job searching which was an exercise in futility,” continued Daly. “The stress of where’s the next paycheck going to come from - the stress of that can be staggering. So, I think in the kind of songs Pat used to write and that I try to write, there’s still a small sense of en- thusiasm behind a defeatist, beaten-down kind of attitude. There’s another song we’re working on for the next album called “Find The Pleasure” which says, ‘In all laughter, there’s hurt.’ I think some of the best humor comes from pain because past a certain point you can continue to be miserable about it or you can find the humor in it. And that’s what I try to do. My songs are therapeutic. Most of them are me trying to work something out, getting my feelings on pa- per, and putting my feelings to music. It’s not all super depress- A sneak peak of one of their newest songs! NJ STAGE - ISSUE 48 INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 61