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The backstory on my new tune

Usually I don't post the story until after I post the song.  But I'm going switch things up a little and give a little preface to this song tonight.  Then, tomorrow night... I'll post the song up!

So what's this song about anyways?  Well... I'm not going to give much away.  I'm only going to tell where the initial idea for this song came from... I'll keep it short and sweet so that I can get back to work on finalizing things for tomorrow evening!  But the initial idea for the song came to me... ummm... accidentally... I suppose.

About a year and a half ago... I moved to the cute little town of Wayne.  It's a nice place.  I enjoy living here.  Although I did have some doubts about living here a little while after moving in after this happened...

I think it was maybe a month or two in? Although it might have been a few months in... I just know it was warm enough to go on a run out side at night... soooooo... I was out for an evening time run.  As I was running out on the main drag an SUV drove up beside me and slowed to my pace only for a brief few second before driving off.

The passenger side front and back windows were rolled down as it drove up to me... in the front, a dude that looked essentially like your typical "frat guy" college student hung out the window (google image search "frat guy" and you'll get an idea of what he looked like)...  and out the back window was a young lady that looked like she was about to go out clubbing (google image search "hooched up club girl" and you should get an idea of what she looked like).  As they drove up the girl was laughing and yelling... "wooooooooooooooooo!!!!! yeaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!" And the guy was laughing loudly as well with everyone else in the car emitting similar sounds from the dark shadowy interior...

So the guy in the passenger screamed at me as they rolled passed "HEY BUDDY!!!! WHERE'S THE FIRE!!?!?!?!"

And then the girl yelled "YEAAAAAAAAAAAA! WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

Then the driver floored it and they they drove off into the night, cackling away.  Google image search "lion king hyenas" and you should get an idea of what all the people in the car were like.

My first thought was... isn't it "where's the beef"?  My second thought was... did I just get made fun of?

I think the second thought was correct.  I went home and googled "where's the fire"...

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Where's+the+fire%3F

So they were saying... "where you off to in a hurry?"... you know, since I was running.

Funny... very funny.

Then a few days later I was fiddling around with a riff on guitar and... I thought about that scene... then I wrote down some lyrics to go with the riff about this frat guy and this clubbing girl...

Then... things just started flowing.  I didn't want to really put much effort or time into this song... because it's inspired by a random event and two random people that were randomly yelling a random phrase at me on the side of the road.

But... I couldn't stop wanting to work on it!  And more and more I kept writing... and I started recording... and then I kept recording... and after recording I kept tweaking and editing and...  I've been fighting this song since day one...I've attempted to scrap it several times... and I keep coming back to it.  It's stupid, but it's also catchy and simple... but it's inspired by two people that I don't even know their names or anything about them.  And they were actually attempting to make fun of me... so it felt wrong to write a song or put any effort at all into writing a song about these mystery people.  Since usually I only write songs for or about people that mean something to me.

But this song happened anyways.  As much as I'm almost against it... it happened.  As much as I tried to delete it and work on other things... it happened anyways.  I enjoy the catchy beat and the simplicity of the song... but I don't really like the origins of it.  There's nothing super meaningful about it.  It was just a scene in the night that lasted a few seconds...

So I guess I should dedicate the song to Mr. and Mrs. "Where's the fire?"

So where is the fire?  I guess it's in creativity and being able to make something out of... the random things that happen to us in life.

So stay tuned to hear the song... It's definitely catchy, if nothing else.  I guess if I had to say a final thought about it...

It's just for the fun of it.  That's all the song is.  It's not "deep".  It's not "spiritual".  It's not "personal".  It's not anything but just stupid fun and something to put on your headphones when you are out for a run... or driving around with friends in the car... or at your next kegger party.

That's all it is... no more no less... it's a party song.  So grab a drink... turn the stereo up... and push play.