John Kahn

I was sitting on my dad's sofa.

I had a pair of jeans, a couple of shirts, and that's about it.

Some guitars.

And I got a text from you saying,

and it said whatever you need brother and i will never forget that you that you texted me that and i wanted one of the posse to know that but this song you know this song came about you know it was very hard after the fires to even pick up a guitar it took me months to even i would walk by them i'd never pick them up i'd never sit at the piano and then a few months later i just sat down at the piano and this song came you know it poured out and i think it's it's kind of a i'm talking to the fire in the second person but i'm also telling myself

You know, as a conservative, we believe that when you get knocked down, you get back up and you keep swinging.

And even though in my heart, I have no idea what I was going to do or how to deal with what I was facing, I was telling myself through this song and everybody else, hopefully, to get up, see the clear skies and know that you got a future and you're not going to sit there and wallow in this and you're going to figure out what you're going to do.

Yeah, it's on all the streamers.

You can find it on the link on my Instagram and Twitter and all that stuff.

But it's on all the streamers.

Yeah, I think that's a common theme with my music.

I mean, I remember when I came to Nashville, all the songwriters were saying, you know, don't come here and write about tattoos and pickup trucks.

It's not what you do.

It's not who you are.

A good buddy of mine, Jeff Steele, who's in the Hall of Fame, just said, write what you feel.

And I'm never moved to write a song unless I'm feeling something deeply.

For example, Fighter, I was watching a press conference after President Trump got convicted.

And I just shook my head and I was just amazed at the fortitude that this man has.

And I just thought, what a fighter.

And I just went to the piano and it comes out.