Life Goes Fast

I used to write songs pretty much all the time. But something has happened (aging? fuddy-duddyness?) so that I hardly ever write or even play anything anymore. My guitar leans against the bookshelf, and I probably pick it up 3 times a month.

Last year, my friend Caleb asked if I’d like to try writing a song together. I have never had a lot of success colaborating, but I thought in this case it might work. He came over, we sat down with our guitars and blank sheets of paper, and we stared into space.

We started strumming around, mumbling nonsense lyrics. After a while, we had a chord progression, and then a decent first verse and chorus. But around that point, we realized that we were inadvertently writing angsty 90’s alt-rock. And neither one of us is, honestly, all that angsty. It was like we were writing what we thought a song should be, rather than expressing anything about ourselves.

So, we took a step back and acknowledged that, as dads, we needed to write a dad song. Which we did:

I think it captures our inherent dadness pretty well, and it was really fun to work on!