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“The Bad In Me”

As a fighter for and a fan of music and art, i absolutely LOVE when artists explain why they write the songs they write and paint the pictures they paint. That being said, I’m going to do that right now for whoever may want to read it. Ladies and Gents, the story of “The Bad In Me.”

A few months ago I was on tour as a drum tech for one of my favorite people on earth, Jess Bowen (The Summer Set) and tour managing one of my other favorite people on earth, Mod Sun, on the same tour. The tour hit the entire US and we got to spend a week in Florida (my favorite state ever.) The tour was fantastic for me because after SIL broke up I went a little crazy and this gave me a chance to travel across the country with 30 friends of mine who completely saved my sanity. Luckily when we were in Daytona we got to stay with our friend Poopie Sanchez (@poopiesanchez) in a big and beautiful condo on the top floor of a building RIGHT on Daytona Beach for 3 days straight.

Day 2 of our stay there, Mod and I woke up pretty early and immediately started drinking on the deck. We had a bottle of Goose, Patron, Jameson and Crown Royal, so we had an insane afternoon. Mod is also the only person on this planet that can convince me to smoke weed so we did that as well and got into a pretty in depth conversation up on the deck. I was venting to him about how I was stressed because I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life now and about how I missed being on stage and writing music and he was giving me some advice. He said “Look Pat. Our lives are awesome. Look at where we are right now. Last night we went to Drake’s private 24th birthday party and drank hundred dollar bottles of champagne for free (yes that’s a 100% true story). You’re surrounded by people on this tour that love and support you and want you to succeed and you get to party in a different state everyday. Then when you get home, we’re recording your new EP and you can do everything the way you want to do it. You have so many people that support you, you’re on top of the world man you can literally do anything you want to do right now and even though your band is done, you’re still having the time of your life and you are 100% okay.” and i was like “Yeah dude, you’re right” and right at that moment this HUGE rainbow started to form over the ocean right in front of us. It was like from a movie.

We immediately poured ourselves another drink and took the elevator down to street level and ran out to the beach. It was one of the most incredible things I’ve ever seen. We were walking at knee high water level talking about shit and I tripped and fell face first into the water. I fell in with a full Jameson Diet in my hand and came back up with a full cup of sea water. It was like America’s Funniest Home Video status. We couldn’t stop laughing. Then out of nowhere all of these clouds started coming in and the sky turned dark grey almost instantly. Then it got worse and worse, like storm of the century shit. I looked at Mod and said “Yo dude we should probably go inside huh?” and he said “Nah dude, that’s what separates people like me and you. We’re going to stay out here fully clothed and lay on the beach during this storm and see what happens. We embrace chaos.” And that’s what we did. We sat on the beach for an hour in torrential downpour and thunder talking and laughing about shit that’s happened to us. An hour later the storm settled and the clouds started to move on and right in front of us where it was before, the rainbow still stood. It was unreal. 

Now even though I was very stoned, I still believe to this day that the universe was trying to tell me something that afternoon. It made me realize that even though I’m having a “rainy day,” if I stay true to who I am and if I am sincerely passionate about what I love (music) that soon my “rainy day” will be over and eventually that rainbow will be right back in front of me where it was a few months ago. After all of that I was like wow this day is unreal and my mind is blown, I need to document the way I feel right now in a song. So I sat out there for another hour or so by myself and wrote “The Bad In Me” completely in my head with no instruments or anything. Right when we got home from the tour we made the beat and recorded the song in Mod’s mom’s basement before we moved into our studio. It is officially the first Good Problems song ever written or recorded. Still to this day when I hear this song it brings me back to that day. It was one of the top 10 best days of my life so far and right before I die someday, It will be one of the last things that plays through my mind.

Here are the lyrics to the song and above are some pictures that I took that day of what was happening.  I hope you all like the song and the blog, please let me know what you think!  Also, my debut EP “I’m Changing My World” comes out THIS FRIDAY for FREE DOWNLOAD so make sure you pick it up and please help spread the word!  I’ll also be on The Gunz Show tomorrow night on idobiradio.com at 9 PM EST so please tune into that!

Head to http://facebook.com/mygoodproblems to hear the song!

Verse 1

i’ve been sittin’ on a beach wishing people could see me

got ideas in my head, i’ll live before i’m dead

see, i had to choose between progression or to lose

now i’m lost inside my mind, what a shame, i should’ve been here the whole time…

but i’m here now

Chorus

if i fall, i won’t care

all i need is right here

it’s a song i can sing

that can cure anything bad in me

Verse 2

now the waves are crashing in, let the water hit my chin

can’t believe what’s in my eyes, i’ve opened up the sky

thinkin’ life is not a game or a dress rehearsal maze

it’s one big roller coaster ride and as long as your alive

it goes on and on and on and you can’t stop it til you’re gone

Bridge

the lessons were learned now i’m participating

i’m runnin’ my mouth but i’m anticipated

you’re wasting time while i’m just getting wasted

yeah, you’re wasting time while i’m just getting wasted