Was it deliberate for the album to focus on C.S. Lewiss “The Great Divorce?
” Matt: It was. Dave and I both read it and we really liked the imagery. Lewis’s descriptions of heaven and hell are different from an American idea, I guess, but they’re probably more accurate. *laughs* And we just really liked it. We split it up – “Part One” is about this guy who’s in a vision or something and he has a choice to make between heaven and hell. He can either choose hell or choose heaven. And so we wrote one song about the choice of choosing hell and the other one’s about choosing heaven. It’s kind of a little concept thing. And then the song, “Madmen,” the title of that is based on a quote out of the book but the idea of it is a little different. We really like C.S. Lewis a lot. • JFH (John): What else inspires your songwriting? Matt: Life experiences. Love. Dave: Loss. Hope. We just write honestly, I guess. Whatever we feel. Track number nine, “Time I Understood,” is just a really honest song. Everybody has questions for God. Everybody doubts God at one time or loses s
