Get the inside scoop on the story behind the songs of LoveLibertyDisco. The guys share their thoughts below.

FALL ON YOU
PETER: We all have friends and loved ones that we hope to influence toward a relationship with their creator. Sometimes in attempting this we can end up being just the opposite, unloving and unfriendly. I believe this is because its not by our might or by our persuasive ways, but by Gods spirit in His timing that we are reformed.
JEFF: Its definitely a different kind of song for us. Structurally its pretty different two choruses and a bridge and no verse. Its kind of messed -up structurally. I think its cool though, a nice piece to end the record.

EVERYONES SOMEONE
PETER: This is probably my favorite off the record. We got the sound for the drums that we liked and just kept building from there. A good drummer knows which holes to leave as opposed to dilling in, and Duncan really shined on that song. I hope its a sound people dig. It seems to be human nature to be tough on others as well as ourselves, feeling that we or they (varying on the individual) fail to live up to some standard. If we could, just for a moment, see others and ourselves as our creator sees us: compassion for the prostitute, befriending the tax collector, loving the leper and the thief on the cross...."today youll be with me in paradise." To God, everyone is someone.

BREAK
PETER: What breaks the heart of God, we, as the body of Christ, His ambassadors here on earth, should also break our hearts. There are songs on a record that you know will be kind of hits with our crowd. But usually, two or three times on a record, we try to experiment, sort of stick our big toe in the water and do something different. That's what this song is. It's one we loved from the beginning, one of the bands favorites.
JEFF: This was one of the songs we kept from the January sessions. I think its a great song. The message is really good. It just talks about letting your heart break....and letting that change you.
PHIL: Its a song about allowing your heart to be broken by things that break the heart of God.

GOOD STUFF
PETER: For followers of Christ to be relevant in this world they must show grace as they have been shown it. They must forgive as they have been forgiven. They must love as their creator loves them. For this love is the greatest of them all without this they have nothing.
PHIL: That song was born from a sample, a little guitar riff I took that I thought was really cool, and then I played it backwards and out came this way cooler guitar riff. We put a beat to it, and thats how it started.

FOREVER MAN
PETER: We live in a world of eternal beings and eternal consequences. To have an understanding, even a confirmation of who we are, why we are here, and who it is that has set this eternity in the hearts of all men is an amazing thing.
PHIL: I think Jeff lifted that song with his string arrangement. He really did that the whole record, which none of the us knew he could do. Part of the charm of the strings on this album is hed never done it before. He didnt really know what he was doing, which was cool. There he was, in a studio, surrounded by an orchestra, playing his ideas and arrangements and I think it was pretty freaky for him - it worked out great.

I SURRENDER ALL
PETER: That was one my wife kind of made me put on the record, one she really liked and one of the first songs written for this album. The production was sort of tough on that one; again, we wanted to do something different, but we didnt want to be something we werent. One of the influences on that song were the Beach Boys; I know it doesnt sound like that, but what we did was bring in different melodies through the song, two or three counter melodies, which is what Brian Wilson used to do.
PHIL: Its a bit of a modern day hymn, really. Its a bit of a reminder for us that as we become more successful, the more we need to realize our need for God and our dependance on Him. Its kind of a gentle reminder to ourselves.

LOVELIBERTYDISCO
PETER: The whole record is really about love and liberty. And disco, thats a form of music that really unites us all. We have five people in the band who probably couldnt be more different musically, though we get on great personally. But if you pull out our own Cds, its very diverse.
PHIL: That actual tune came together really quickly. We were just jamming out in the studio, and it reared its ugly head and we decided to roll tape. So we had this song and were mumbling away as far as lyrics were concerned, then the idea "LoveLibertyDisco" sort of turned up, and things grew from there.
JEFF: I wouldnt make disco imply 70s disco only; Id carry it over to the disco of today. We love that kind of music. Any time we have a band party, I DJ at them and Ive got an extensive vinyl collection of old Motown, vintage disco, BeeGees, ABBA. We love all those old things.

I WOULD GIVE EVERYTHING
PETER: That to me feels like Australian 80s rock, bands like Ice house. That was one that came along with "Everyones Someone" in January.

SAY YOU NEED LOVE
PETER: That was a song that was a surprise. It was one we had early, and it was the last song we recorded on the record. It drifted around for a long time as we cut bits out of it here and there. The time came when we got the vocals on it, and everyone started getting excited about it It feels like a good pop song, definitely very Fleetwood Mac.
PHIL: I was sitting down to work on the lyric for that song and a friend phoned. He said "What are you doing?" and I said "Im writing a song." He says "Why dont you write a song about me?" so I said "OK." This is a person I would consider pretty deeply troubled. I think he has issues like we all do, and he maybe wears his on his sleeves a bit more. So that song evolved from thinking about him.

BEAUTIFUL SOUND
PETER: We wrote that in a change room in California. We usually take a studio with us on the road, a little portable work station. It was one of our toughest songs to put together; it started on the record as a kind of Motown thing, but slowly changed to its present form.
JEFF: Its a song about the whole paradox of the more we learn about God, the more we realize how much we don't know.

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