You know what I mean? It’s just in general terms. They’re not specifically about a certain event like the New York Mining Disaster or something. Songs relate differently to different people or different situations. But we just write about things that we’re thinking about at the time or take things that we’ve done in the past. I can hear what you’re talking about in reference to those two songs as it hadn’t exactly been smooth sailing up until that point anyway. But this record was finished before the pandemic even started. It was like, “OK, (laughs), now what?” Nobody knew what the hell was going on. So when the pandemic started, we had just stopped. We toured the first two months of 2020, January and February and we were gonna take a little time off. So we had the album done and it was going to be released sometime in early 2020. Tom Petersson: Well, it wasn’t conscious because the record was finished in 2019.
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