Dear Lazarus

Ketch Secor and I wrote this song one day over at his studio. We had been listening to songs and going over some ideas and I remembered an idea that I had recently came up with. All I had was the chorus. Ketch grabbed an old Bible and we took the story of Lazarus right out of the Bible, basically. I had been thinking about how so many of us are “walking dead” in spirit, and also the thought of why we suffer in this world at all. My son, Christian, and I had talked about this recently and it was on my mind. Subconsciously the idea developed, I suppose, and then this chorus surfaced into the conscious and eventually became a song, which is one of my favorites on the EP. Dear Lazarus has one of the two overdubs on the record. We desperately needed an intro for the song, and so I asked Sam Bush if he would join us back down at the Downtown Presbyterian Church to record a fiddle part, to which he obliged. Sam is unbelievably talented and we spent a total of ten minutes with the red button engaged and captured a great intro inside a great room.