In Case of Emergency

So it is finally the new year.  it happens at the same time every year so i guess that its fairly predictable.  However, every new year i find it is a great time to start fresh with everything.  From smoking to drinking to spending more time with a guitar, or even family... For some reason it feels good to know that everything has a fresh start.  I have been writing a lot lately. A lot.  Right now i am finding both extremely easy and difficult to be honest in my writing.  the best example of this is "In case of emergency". this to me is probably the most honest song i have ever written.  i think it is a song that has helped me both cope, understand and despise my own human frailty and brokenness. I think it also shows my need to be a part of something greater than myself, not in a rich and famous way, but in a human way.  I felt i captured myself calling out and not being heard. or maybe its not that i wasn't being heard, maybe sometimes there is nothing that can be said other than, "i am so sorry..." and then sit in silence.  But then again, it was just what came out when i started writing it.  Honest human experience.  The difficulty in being honest with your music is simple. To be completely honest and transparent, to let people into your life without knowing them, but sharing your love/pain/loss is not an easy task.  As simple as that.  In Case of Emergency and The frailty of the human heart. I came up with that song and album title years before the song or album was conceived of .  I don't even know where i got the idea.  I suppose human life (or specifically the heart) is often a matter of life and death (not in a physical sense, although it can be), our hearts can preoccupy, destroy, give purpose our lives for weeks, months or years.  I don't write these songs just because the radio is flooded with them, i write them because they are honest to who i am and what i take out of life.  I think thats what music should always be but we often get caught up in formulas or writing the next club anthem.  I just want to be able to understand and feel what i sing about, because that is what gives it integrity.  and for 2008 i think thats what i am going to focus on.