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With You
With You

lyrics in there. Jacob sings ‘with every breath and a man of my word. I would rather have great the songs and we’ll all listen to them and learn
you take you’re choking on your hate’. He tells character than a great reputation. People who them and go in and record them and that’s that.
us, “It’s a song about somebody from my past. I know me, they know my character and they In Adler it was different because I would write a
think we all go through that in life with relation- know I’m never going to lie to them. They know lot of songs, Lonny would write a bunch of
ships, whether it be romantic relationships or that what you see is what you get. And they songs, we’d write a lot of songs together and
just relationships that you might have with know that I’m loyal. I’m the most loyal person in we’d play them for Steven and Steven was like
friends when you finally realize that the person the world. That is the man that I set out to be.” an A&R for the record if you will. He would sit
is not the person you thought they were all there and tell us, “I like this song,” “I like that
along. When you find out that they’ve been de- ynam originally formed in 2001 and re- song,” “I don’t like this song.” There were a
ceitful and they’re actually a very, very terrible Lleased five albums before announcing in bunch of songs that we’d written that we thought
person. A lot of people believe that everybody is 2010 that ‘Thank You Good Night!’ would be were really, really great, that we felt that maybe
born good, but then somewhere along the way their final release (they’ve since changed their should have gone on the record but Steven was-
they fall and that’s why some people are evil and mind about that!). A year later, in 2011, Adler n’t feeling them – so there was a little bit of like
some people are good and I don’t believe that was formed. Jacob joined Steven Adler, Johnny ‘Bummer!” But once the record was all recorded
at all. I feel like some people are born pure evil.” Martin and Lonny Paul in the LA based band. and said and done, I love it, I’m very, very proud
Jacob says he himself set out to be some- Jacob looks back at that, telling us, “It was an of it and I’m proud of the songs that he chose.”
one who’s real. “I wanted to always be honest interesting transition because in Lynam I’ll write The members bonded, especially as they

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