Home Grown songwriters Adam Lohrbach and John E. Trash discuss the tracks on Act Your Age.....

"Nowhere Slow": Adam: It1s a play on going nowhere fast, but I made it 'slow' because nothing was really happening for me and time was dragging on. It was a slow process of nothing.

"All That You Have": Adam: I was thinking about where I lived. I got in this mood, like, "Man, I've got it pretty good." A lot of bands will write about "Screw the government" and stuff like that; but I was thinking, "I've got it really good - my family's still together, and I've got a lot of good friends. Heck, I'm gonna write about it."

"She's Anti": John: It's basically me in high school, how I wanted to be. But I put it in a girl's perspective. I tend to write in the third person, just to be a little twisted.

"Surfer Girl": Adam: It's just a story about the ideal girl, a girl I could take surfing with me, with big chi-chis. I figured anything that perfect couldn't last, which is why she leaves me in the end. It makes it more fun as a story to end on that sour note.

"Last Nite Regrets": John: This is about a friend of mine who I messed around with. I don't talk to her anymore. It's a really sensitive topic. Basically, the song is me feeling sorry for what I did.

"Suffer": Adam: A story about an old friend of mine who gave me crap for not talking to him. Time had gone by and we'd gone in different directions, so we didn't have that much in common anymore. I felt a little guilty about that.

"Your Past": John: I was watching "Chasing Amy," and I was really impressed by it, so I wrote a song about the idea of being obsessed with somebody's past. That movie just blew me away.

"Grow Up": Adam: That was my teenage-angst song. It has two messages. One is how adults tell you to grow up and be a man, and you tell 'em to screw off. But at the same time, the chorus says, "Maybe I'm missing something. At least that's what they're telling me."

"Piss Off": John: It's all in the title - teen angst. People would tell me what to do, and I'd tell 'em to fuck off. That's a lot of what our first album is about, even though the music's really happy.

"Let Go": Adam: That1s along the same lines as "All That You Have" Ð I was in one of those "appreciate things" moods. I was reflecting on how you worry about stuff that1s out of your control. Whatever's going to happen will happen, and you just have to sit back and ride with it. But this song also says that whatever you can do to plan things, you should do.

"Bad News Blair": John: This is about me and my bad experiences with girls. Actually, just one girl who ruined it for all the other girls.

"Kids": Adam: Another positive message, thinking back to when you were a kid and you weren't worrying about all the things you worry about as an adult. I try to recapture that and be like that now.

"Wow, She Dumb": John: That song's about the same kind of thing as "Blair" bad experiences with a particular girl. I'm dwelling and bitching and complaining a lot, which is what I do best.

"Envy Me": John: I wrote that song from a girl's point of view. It's about how girls get stupid over other girls, all competitive. Guys get that way, too, I guess. It's about unhealthy competition.

"Reflections": Adam: That's about my ex-girlfriend, about all the stuff she went through with me being in a band.

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