Sometimes you hold on to something you love, even if it isn’t good for you. Relationships, dreams, ideas… time twists it all and they become poisonous if we hold onto what they were in the beginning instead of allowing space for them to change (and change us in the process).

Truthfully, this song was meant to be my last.

I didn’t know it at the time but I viewed Common Jack as a static, unchanging object. I was squeezing it too tight, refusing to give it room to breathe and because of that, it was slowly dying. The mistake I made then was assuming it was already dead and therefore needed to be buried and left in the past.

With the frustrating benefit of hindsight, I now see it in much less flamboyantly dramatic terms. My taste as a songwriter was changing. All I needed to do was follow my gut and stop worrying so much about what CJ was and just let it be. So 4 years ago, I wrote “Wearing Thin” as a goodbye.

It’s funny though, sometimes you need to let go of what you love in order to find your way back to it.