The Love You Know

I could say a lot about 2024. It was an incredibly trying year for my entire family however, I feel that life always has a way of balancing itself back out. Just because you’re on the tipping scale right now about to fall off doesn’t mean it’s going to stay like that forever. Honesly the first half of 2024 I felt that I did utterly nothing but work a job I hated. Fast forward to the second half of not being able to work that job because of countless hospital visits and tests, having a stroke and a heart procedure. I started feeling really grateful in hindsight that I was working that job. Money goes away as fast as it can come in. The other much more important thing I have thought about more than ever in 2024 was my family. How grateful I am to have people that care in my life and want to see me win.

My cousin is deployed halfway around the world right now and has been for the last 9 months. Leaving our family and his immediate family, including his wife and two kids. I can imagine and can attest for myself that it’s one of the hardest things I think they’ll ever have to endure. However, what 2024 has shown me is that the harder things get, the more I realize I’m strong enough to endure and push through them. No matter what you are dealing with I know you want to push forward, you must. What else is there but resilience, faith and a few hardships along the way to show you tangible evidence that you are capable to endure. But while youre at it, don’t forget to share the love you know. Much Love TB

Coming Home

I feel sometimes that life can be very one-dimensional. Work, eat, sleep & repeat. Many times, we need other outlets in life to be anything but one-dimensional. When I wrote Coming Home, I put myself in the shoes of a few people, one being my cousin, who is serving overseas right now, giving a year of his life. I imagine he feels the same as we do in the sense of wanting to come home. But home, as they say, is certainly who you are with, so you’d better make sure who you’re with is worthy of coming into your house. I also feel a deeper sense of the meaning of Coming Home, in the spiritual sense of seeing someone you love again someday. My grandpa comes to mind, who was more of a father than anything to me. I guess all I really mean to say is that everything comes to an end. If it all comes to an end, that's truly what makes it special: being able to have it in the first place. I hope you don’t take your life or the people in your house for granted. We only get this life and the people in it for a short amount of time. I’m learning day by day to show compassion towards those closest and even furthest from me when at times it’s very hard. When it is hardest, that’s when the 30-second dash cam kicks in to record and see if you will pass or fail the test. I hope you pass. Much Love TB

DIALTONE..

Like all my music, I would hope this song is relatable. I know everyone deals with rejection from time to time, and for a lot of us, before we know what’s going on, a parent has already abandoned us. For some of us both. DIALTONE.. for me, is the anthem of abandonment, but it turned into something uplifting and positive. Sometimes, being negative just isn’t fun anymore, and you have to just turn it around. Many times when we grow the most is when life sucks the most, whether we want to believe it or not. If you always take the same path, you’ll always end up in the same place. I think also DIALTONE.. for me, can be a friend that you’re calling over and over, trying to wake them. Trying your best to bring them up a level and get them to step out and try something new and just simply believe in themselves. I hope that I can make an impact positively on someone’s life that’s exactly what I want to do. I know my pop music and also my deathcore band (JUST DUST) isn’t for everyone, but I love having a broad window to reach people and try to help bring them up and help even in a small way to change their lives for the better. If you’re still here with me, I really appreciate it. If you don’t stop, you can’t fail. Much Love TB