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NEW Combo BLUWAVS CD and FLAC FILE
From the Artist
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Trying to Find Atlantis (Chris Waters/Zach Turner)
"The first time I heard this song, it just spoke to me about my past and how long it takes to find the perfect man and
how you have to kiss a lot of toads before you meet the right prince. So many of my songs are serious, and it has that
funny sense to it that just appealed to me, that Yeah, if I can laugh at this, then somebody else will."
Naive (Jamie ONeal/Shaye Smith/Tim Nichols)
"I think everyone has that first love where you felt like you'd be together forever. When youre young, you think, Im
gonna do this, Im gonna do that, then Im gonna go here, then Im gonna go there. You make all these plans, and you
think theres nothing you cant do. You feel like youre invincible. Meanwhile, the adults are laughing, patting you on
the back saying, Aw, dont rush. Youll find out when youre older. You get so aggravated, but you eventually find out
life just doesnt work out that way. Its funny to look back on it when you do run into someone from that period in your
life."
Somebody's Hero (Jamie ONeal/Shaye Smith/Ed Hill)
"I had been saying to all my co-writers, I really want to write about family. I really want to write about my little
girl. And the thing for me was, when you have a baby you start thinking about your own relationship with your mother.
And when you were little, how much you looked up to them and then you move to, Gosh, my baby looks up to me so much. I
dont want to let her down. I want to be a hero to her. And its not just your mother. You start thinking about the
other generations of womenmy paternal other grandmother - I was so close to her before she passed away, and I think
that song is a real tribute to the women in my life."
When Did You Know (Tim Mensy/Monte Criswell)
"When youre dating someone and youre falling in love, you think they feel the same way. Then when they tell you they
dont feel that way and youre not the one, its such a in the heart. And that question does come to mindHow long
have you known this? When did you first know that you felt this way? What a waste of time that is, to sit around and
analyzeWell, when we went here, did he feel
? How could he do this to me? But you still do it. You cannot help
yourself. I feel like that song is one of those pour-yourself-a-glass-of-red-wine-and-sob-in-it kind of songs."
Devil On The Left (Jamie ONeal/Lisa Drew/Rivers Rutherford)
"One of my co-writers, Lisa Drew, is a big-time reader. She reads everything she can possibly get her hands on. She
never really socializes, just so she can stay home and read. That's where she gets her song ideas. She was on a plane
and read this story of a stripper, and the stripper had a tattoo of a devil on the left and an angel on the right. She
said, That's meIm a little bit this way and a little bit that way. And, of course, we made up our own story when it
came to writing the song. I wanted to write a kind of swampy song, like Fancy. We took the idea to Rivers, and it all
came together."
On My Way To You (Jamie ONeal/Shaye Smith/Tim Nichols)
"When I hear that song now, I think of my baby. Theres a plan for everyone, and you never know what that plan is. But
the reason I wanted to write that song, and the reason I had that title, was my husband, and thinking, What are the
odds that a girl whos born in Australia, thats traveled the world as much as I did, meets up with someone from East
Tennessee that stayed in one spot his whole life? He moved to Nashville, obviously, but to think that all these turns
that I took led me to him, I just thought that was cool. Its like the song Naïve, how you plan things out, and how
naïve that is, because you cant plan your life out. You never know where somethings going to take you and whats going
to come out of your next experience."
Follow Me Home (Jamie ONeal/Shaye Smith/Brett James)
"We always like to think when we get married that its going to be a bed of roses, and the honeymoon periods going to
last forever, but there are times when you just think, I need space, I gotta think, I need to be away from you. Then
when you leave, or they leave, this huge emotion comes over of I cant walk away from this. I need this person. I love
this person too much. Weve got to work this out. And this songs about is reaching out and letting pride fall away.
When pride gets in the way, it becomes a Mexican stand-off, and you refuse to give in. My husband and I are really like
that. We have big blow-up fights, but we always know whats important in the end."
Girlfriends (Jamie ONeal/Lisa Drew/Jimmy Murphy)
"After I had the baby, I was emphatic that I dont become one of those women that has a baby and doesnt go out with
their friends again, and doesnt know how to have a good time because, Oh, Im a mom now. I cant do that. So I still
manage, when I put her to bed, to go out with my friends, have a good time, have a few drinks, and thats what we wanted
to write about - your girlfriends will always be there for you through thick and thin, no matter what. I wrote it with
my dad and Lisa Drew, and it was funny, cause Lisa said, Can we say girlfriends kick ass? And my dad was like,
Ooooo, I dont know about that. But it was two girls against one male, so he had no chance."
Ready When It Comes (Jamie ONeal/Annie Roboff/Beth Nielsen Chapman)
"Beth has been through cancer, and I lost my grandher and my aunt to cancer. We wanted to sing about the
struggles of life, and we wanted to go from something thats a little bit more run of the mill, like a nine-to-five job,
to someone having to go through the hardest thing that anybody has to go through. And then the bridge obviously is
finding the strength you need and realizing you had it all along."
Brave (Jamie ONeal/Annie Roboff/Tim Nichols)
"I wanted to write a song about going through a hard time, feeling really beaten down, and thinking, How do I come
back from this? Its really so hard when you have failure. Annie had been through some very hard trials, just like me.
Shes fought a really serious illness for the last 10 years. Shes always trying to bounce back. She plays piano, and
sometimes her hands are so sore she cant play, shes in and out of the hospital. No matter what happens around you, or
to your body, youre still basically the same person inside. And we wanted to write a song about that, because we could
totally relate. Wed already written a verse and half the chorus, and Tim said, What are we gonna call it? And I said
I thought we should call it Brave, because thats what its aboutthe emotion of being brave enough to get through
something."
I Love My Life (Jamie ONeal/Shaye Smith/Tim Nichols)
"That song, to me, says it all. Thats why I wanted to end the album with it. The song is so me, and basically tells
our story. It also means a lot to me because my baby girl's on there counting it off and my little dog's barking at
the end."