This material was written for the second CD release of Project 7X. Of all my material, this is probably the most non-biographical in nature, and lyrically, this was a very tricky collection of songs to write. The reason for this stems from the overall concept.

The concept of the album was that these were the long lost songs of a 70s band named The Taglines whose fledgling career was cut short due to the untimely death of two key members. So, in an effort to keep it real in the face of the intentional ruse, I wanted the songs, as well as the whole project, to contain clues that the band was not real.

For this reason, I came up with the idea of having all of the first letters of all the sequential song titles spell out a message. In the end, this hidden message revealed THE BAND IS NOT REAL YOU FOUND IT OUT. So I proceeded to come up with eight song titles that constrained to this criterion - definitely a tough way of writing songs. Typically, I come up with a song's title after the song is complete. Doing this in reverse forced me to write lyrics that matched the title.

So this was the first time that I had overlooked personal expression and observations; focusing solely on the creation of catchy pop oriented lyrics.