When I approach a topic for a song, I always try to explore the possible emotions that are being impacted. Usually all my songs are from firsthand experiences, but in this case,  I (luckily) haven’t been in a violent situation that involved guns. So I did my research. I looked up all the most reported shootings in America and watched as many testimonies as I could to get inside the mind of a student or civilian. The quote that stuck out the most, and inspired the lyric, was from the Feb 14, 2016 Parkland shooting where Nicholas Cruz, the alleged shooter, said to a freshman while loading his gun, “you better get out of here, things are gonna start to get messy.” After hearing that, kinda knew what I wanted the song to sound like. I wanted it to have ‘sad’ lyrics with an ‘angry’ sound to it so I could capture the emotional response people typically have when a shooting occurs. I had a rough melody from my archives, so all that was left to do was write. I wanted the song to be a little longer than what I usually do to kinda capture how long it is taking to bring change to mind. After I had all my inspirations and emotions built up, it didn’t take long to write at all and it’s probably one of my favorite pieces