“ I really took stock of what was in my own life . Why am I still here ? I think that we have to ask ourselves that when you lose people . I have another day for some reason .” be friends with them . We have a unique commonality . Our uniqueness is that we have kids on the road , and we ’ re trying to live . We ’ re trying to still walk and teach the roots of our faith at the same time as being like in the middle of people who care nothing about your faith . We have this constant commonality between us . I just remember some really cool conversations with their kids , just like when they went out with Papa Roach and how their kids had a relationship with Jacoby . The difference is , there ’ s just a lot in common in that area . Friendship-wise , relationshipwise , our families click . My kids call John “ Johndoggy .” He ’ s a superhero to them , like Batman . I really think he ’ s Batman actually , LOL . There ’ s a lot of cool things , relationally that makes the music natural . I ’ ve worked with people I don ’ t know , and you have to get to know them . In the beginning , it ’ s always awkward until you kind of get a little bit more familiar with each other , and then you ’ re like , okay , I get how you work . Or because music is an intimate thing , It ’ s supposed to be a creative process . It ’ s supposed to be an overflow of your heart . Right ? And so when you said “ the formula ”, it ’ s interesting , because there is a formula aspect with Skillet . When they turn on the microphone and put on some music , It just flows out , but because they set it up , that ’ s why it ’ s flowing out . I get too busy trying to figure out what to feed my kids for breakfast and remember when they had a bath the last time . I ’ m really a ‘ one thing at a time ’ kind of person . So the kids era of my life is really consuming . You know , kids , because it ’ s really not about us .
This song speak to so many of people suffering from loss from the pandemic . Kids getting their normal rights of passage taken from them which could have ill effects later on in life .
LACEY : That ’ s true . I noticed that with a lot of the people around us . I remember a kid that I loved not getting a graduation and not getting the prom and all the rights of passage . You feel for them . What are they going to do ?
I lost somebody during this time . I find this thought in my head of , what would I say to that person ? What would I say ? Just what would I say to them , but also to myself to not end up in that place . A lot of times we look at somebody who ’ s going through