Death Row - Commentary

Me and Tyler Herbert and Russell

Went and visited a man's prison in Nashville last year

With a friend of ours named Al

Who does a prison ministry here in Nashville

And I honestly did not know that that was a thing

And I really didn't want to go

Because I was kind of freaked out, to be honest with you

And Tyler was like really adamant about going

So I went with him and, and we brought our guitars

And walked into this just like super heavy environment

You know, and I think our job that day was just to spread a little bit of joy

And bring a little bit of light into a place that is ultimately pretty dark

And we walked in and it was like real quick

After we got done playing the songs

We started to like ask ourselves, do we shake their hands?

Do we mingle? And if you do mingle

Like, what do you say? You know what I mean?

Like, a lot of those folks have been in there for 30 plus years

And I think in your brain, you go

They must be so out of touch with reality, like what's happening

And all of a sudden, we're sitting there talking about Turkey season coming up

And we're talking about bass that we call

And we, we talking about college football and old country music

And next thing you know, it just it kind of felt like we were just talking to people

That we had known for a long time, and

I think ultimately what I learned that day is that

We've all made decisions in our lives that we wish we could take back

And to not judge a book by its cover

And I think we get into that bridge by saying

Like, you know, we can't judge their soul

I'm not trying to get into like anything that I believe about anything

All I know is that I left being like

I thought those people were going to be monsters

And they turned out to be very remorseful

Sadder than anyone I've ever met about something they had done in their life

And it made me look at my life, and I go

God, like, things I've done in my life

Are there people that I need to say sorry to?

Are there people that I need to forgive?

And so I didn't really know how to register all of that except for to write it

And mm, I really didn't even know that I wanted it to be on the record at all

And I started playing it for friends and for family

And I think a lot of them were just like

I think there's some people in the world that should hear that