Brave

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Product description ------------------- NEW Combo BLUWAVS CD and FLAC FILE From the Artist --------------- Trying to Find Atlantis (Chris Waters/Zach Turner) "The first time I heard this song, it just spoke to me about my past and how long it takes to find the perfect man and how you have to kiss a lot of toads before you meet the right prince. So many of my songs are serious, and it has that funny sense to it that just appealed to me, that ‘Yeah, if I can laugh at this, then somebody else will." Naive (Jamie O’Neal/Shaye Smith/Tim Nichols) "I think everyone has that first love where you felt like you'd be together forever. When you’re young, you think, ‘I’m gonna do this, I’m gonna do that, then I’m gonna go here, then I’m gonna go there.’ You make all these plans, and you think there’s nothing you can’t do. You feel like you’re invincible. Meanwhile, the adults are laughing, patting you on the back saying, ‘Aw, don’t rush. You’ll find out when you’re older.’ You get so aggravated, but you eventually find out life just doesn’t work out that way. It’s funny to look back on it when you do run into someone from that period in your life." Somebody's Hero (Jamie O’Neal/Shaye Smith/Ed Hill) "I had been saying to all my co-writers, ‘I really want to write about family. I really want to write about my little girl.’ And the thing for me was, when you have a baby you start thinking about your own relationship with your mother. And when you were little, how much you looked up to them and then you move to, ‘Gosh, my baby looks up to me so much. I don’t want to let her down. I want to be a hero to her.’ And it’s not just your mother. You start thinking about the other generations of women—my paternal other grandmother - I was so close to her before she passed away, and I think that song is a real tribute to the women in my life." When Did You Know (Tim Mensy/Monte Criswell) "When you’re dating someone and you’re falling in love, you think they feel the same way. Then when they tell you they don’t feel that way and you’re not the one, it’s such a in the heart. And that question does come to mind—How long have you known this? When did you first know that you felt this way? What a waste of time that is, to sit around and analyze—‘Well, when we went here, did he feel…?’ ‘How could he do this to me?’ But you still do it. You cannot help yourself. I feel like that song is one of those pour-yourself-a-glass-of-red-wine-and-sob-in-it kind of songs." Devil On The Left (Jamie O’Neal/Lisa Drew/Rivers Rutherford) "One of my co-writers, Lisa Drew, is a big-time reader. She reads everything she can possibly get her hands on. She never really socializes, just so she can stay home and read. That's where she gets her song ideas. She was on a plane and read this story of a stripper, and the stripper had a tattoo of a devil on the left and an angel on the right. She said, ‘That's me—I’m a little bit this way and a little bit that way.’ And, of course, we made up our own story when it came to writing the song. I wanted to write a kind of swampy song, like ‘Fancy.’ We took the idea to Rivers, and it all came together." On My Way To You (Jamie O’Neal/Shaye Smith/Tim Nichols) "When I hear that song now, I think of my baby. There’s a plan for everyone, and you never know what that plan is. But the reason I wanted to write that song, and the reason I had that title, was my husband, and thinking, ‘What are the odds that a girl who’s born in Australia, that’s traveled the world as much as I did, meets up with someone from East Tennessee that stayed in one spot his whole life?’ He moved to Nashville, obviously, but to think that all these turns that I took led me to him, I just thought that was cool. It’s like the song ‘Naïve,’ how you plan things out, and how naïve that is, because you can’t plan your life out. You never know where something’s going to take you and what’s going to come out of your next experience." Follow Me Home (Jamie O’Neal/Shaye Smith/Brett James) "We always like to think when we get married that it’s going to be a bed of roses, and the honeymoon period’s going to last forever, but there are times when you just think, ‘I need space, I gotta think, I need to be away from you.’ Then when you leave, or they leave, this huge emotion comes over of ‘I can’t walk away from this. I need this person. I love this person too much. We’ve got to work this out.’ And this song’s about is reaching out and letting pride fall away. When pride gets in the way, it becomes a Mexican stand-off, and you refuse to give in. My husband and I are really like that. We have big blow-up fights, but we always know what’s important in the end." Girlfriends (Jamie O’Neal/Lisa Drew/Jimmy Murphy) "After I had the baby, I was emphatic that I don’t become one of those women that has a baby and doesn’t go out with their friends again, and doesn’t know how to have a good time because, ‘Oh, I’m a mom now. I can’t do that.’ So I still manage, when I put her to bed, to go out with my friends, have a good time, have a few drinks, and that’s what we wanted to write about - your girlfriends will always be there for you through thick and thin, no matter what. I wrote it with my dad and Lisa Drew, and it was funny, ‘cause Lisa said, ‘Can we say girlfriends kick ass?’ And my dad was like, ‘Ooooo, I don’t know about that.’ But it was two girls against one male, so he had no chance." Ready When It Comes (Jamie O’Neal/Annie Roboff/Beth Nielsen Chapman) "Beth has been through cancer, and I lost my grandher and my aunt to cancer. We wanted to sing about the struggles of life, and we wanted to go from something that’s a little bit more run of the mill, like a nine-to-five job, to someone having to go through the hardest thing that anybody has to go through. And then the bridge obviously is finding the strength you need and realizing you had it all along." Brave (Jamie O’Neal/Annie Roboff/Tim Nichols) "I wanted to write a song about going through a hard time, feeling really beaten down, and thinking, ‘How do I come back from this?’ It’s really so hard when you have failure. Annie had been through some very hard trials, just like me. She’s fought a really serious illness for the last 10 years. She’s always trying to bounce back. She plays piano, and sometimes her hands are so sore she can’t play, she’s in and out of the hospital. No matter what happens around you, or to your body, you’re still basically the same person inside. And we wanted to write a song about that, because we could totally relate. We’d already written a verse and half the chorus, and Tim said, ‘What are we gonna call it?’ And I said I thought we should call it ‘Brave,’ because that’s what it’s about—the emotion of being brave enough to get through something." I Love My Life (Jamie O’Neal/Shaye Smith/Tim Nichols) "That song, to me, says it all. That’s why I wanted to end the album with it. The song is so me, and basically tells our story. It also means a lot to me because my baby girl's on there counting it off — and my little dog's barking at the end."