LT says: When ideas were being thrown around for the album, I’d submitted a song called “Falling” that I had written with the intention of using for an 80s hard rock side project I was doing called “Clarity”, but I wondered if it may also be a good song for LORD since we were looking for a good hard rock song to add to the album at the time. The guys loved it but something about it made me feel uncomfortable about it being used for LORD instead of “Clarity” so I chose to pull it. To make up for it, I quickly recorded another rocker over the space of around two hours and presented it to be band the next morning. It turned out this idea was received really well and worked great with some lyric ideas of TY’s. 100 Reasons was born. What was the quickest song to write ended up as one of the most liked and commercially accessible songs on the album.
The future’s bright I tell you
Another perfect day
All our baggage packed we climb
Aboard this sinking ship
And so we sail…
Takes a second to say hello
And forever to say goodbye
Turn the cheek of a blind denial
Into another lie
PRE-CHORUS:
Oh, playing out this masquerade
Hold on to the dream
How long can we travel down this road we made?
Go on alone and leave me far behind
CHORUS:
I tell myself we’re all okay
(I can) think of a hundred different reasons
For me to make you stay
I leave you now and go my way
To find a change of season
To help me get my feet back on the ground
Inside it’s so frustrating
A heart wrapped in golden chain
Always searching for the rainbow
Always waiting in the rain
REPEAT PRE-CHORUS
REPEAT CHORUS
SOLO: LT
REPEAT PRE-CHORUS
REPEAT CHORUS OUT
credits
from Set In Stone,
released August 1, 2009
Words / Music: T. Grose / T. Yatras
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