Words and Music by Eg

If you stay clean, you’re going to step over some bodies. 

 This song was inspired by one of the guys who brought meetings (for recovery from addiction) to the area in which I got clean.  He had 17 years clean (which I have now) and started using again.  He found his ways back into the rooms after about a year of relapsing.  I sponsored him for the next 18 months and he was doing well.  Then one night he picked up and was dead the next morning from an overdose.  In addition to this song being homage to Jack, it is a memorial for all those that have died from addiction, making our seat precious.  I have always believed meetings to be a sacred space—the only place on the planet where addiction is rendered inert is in a meeting.  While this song seeks to memorialize those who have succumbed to the disease of addiction, it is more a celebration of those that have not.  The best way that I can honor those that have fallen is to stay clean and carry the message today.

Holy Ground was the first song that we recorded at County Q.  It was the first time that I heard the magic of that ensemble.  I was cheezin so hard when they started playing that I could not even sing the scratch vocals.  I told them I wanted a big fat groove through the middle of this song and they delivered.  I tried to record this song on my acoustic with Adam Fox engineering a few years back.  We did 17 takes and I simply could not play those syncopated notes in the breakdown with the click track.  These guys nailed it fist time with the electric, acoustic, drums and bass all perfectly on beat with every single note.  I was amazed.