Gerard O'Riley

This song is about when I was younger in school and started using drugs and alcohol. I was not a good person, I was rude, and acted like a fool even though I was smart and had all the tools to be successful. When I got sober at different times in my life, those positive skills came out and I was successful. But I think deep down I thought I didn't deserve success. I was just insecure, and lacking self-esteem. But I kept at it, I never stopped trying to get my life right.

This lyric is about having one of the most important things in life, a family. Family stick together, or at least you think they should. I know mine has stuck by me my whole life, and I feel very fortunate for that. Through my years of using drugs and alcohol, my family never gave up on me, and at times they even enabled me, which wasn't the best thing. But one of the driving forces to get myself clean and sober, was the love I had for my family, and the love that they had for me. It was unwavering, and they loved me unconditionally. But then there are people who don't have a family, for whatever reason. Those people, I wish I could give them my experience of having a family.

Is lyric is about a person who constantly lies. Pretty much everything out of their mouth is a lie. They can lie with a smile on their face and they know how to lie so no one can tell that they're lying. I'm sure we all know people like this looking straight in the eye and tell you something and you believe them, or they have a smile on their face while they're lying to you. It definitely makes you angry, and you feel so stupid for believing them. But sometimes they're so persuasive that even when you figure out their lying you still kind of believe them. Sort of like our former president of the United States, number 45. But that's not what this lyric is about, it's just about a person who lies all the time.

This lyric is about an unrequited love. I love this woman to death, and won't stop until my eye stop crying. Unfortunately my love for her is not the same as her love for me. In fact she doesn't have a love for me. It leaves me feeling down and defeated. I'm beside myself and just don't know what to do. But all I do know is that I won't stop loving her until my eyes stop crying

This lyric is a weird type of lyric, where I'm talking to myself. It's about all the lies that I told myself, and how I short changed my life. I held myself down, I broke a lot of promises to myself and many times I felt sorry for myself. But that apology to myself which is the token apology didn't mean anything everything I knew at the time was wrong, it really just left me knowing nothing.