Oliver Anthony (Christopher Lunsford)

I mean, we're all just riding on this rock that's going who knows how fast.

I was terrified.

I talked about this a little bit with him too, but I was terrified to even put the song out.

Like I knew I was going to be the subject of scrutiny and judgment.

And I knew people were going to like, you know, I kind of knew all that was going to happen.

I was like going back to that, talking about crowds, like to stand in front of thousands of people and everybody be in some sense of unity.

Like a lot of times when I end the shows, I'll always say,

I'll always end with this statement that just says, you know, no matter what, like no matter how you feel when you go online, you know, everyone feels so small and insignificant and powerless.

But I just say no matter how they make you feel online or when you turn on the TV or when you look at polling numbers or whatever, like when you just look at all this trash that we digest every day, like you're,

there's always, there will always be more of us than them and, and all that.

And, but like to see that, like just to see the light in people's eyes when you say that, but the truth is like, and it's like, who is us and who is them?

And it's like us just represents humanity and like, and, and all the things we talked about so far, like just,

you know, the fire and the chaos, but also like the love and just life.

Life is just such a crazy, complicated, beautiful, disastrous thing.

And then them is like, it is, it's the power structure.

It's the, it's that same terrible side of us that created things like the Soviet Union and,

And it's ultimately what's created this monster that we all live under today, which now doesn't just exist within the confines of the Soviet Union, but seems to almost be a global epidemic.

Yeah, it's like, how much fire am I willing to play with?

Because I know at some point I am going to get burned from it.

I just pray a lot that God, I don't have a lot of self-worth in myself anyway, so I don't really care what they say or do to me, or I don't care.