Rob Cheatham & Gunchux

I wrote Lightning bugs in a traditional country/folk/rock structure. Sometimes keeping it simple is the best way, especially when you want people to listen to the words.  This song is about finding time to pause in everyday life.  Sometimes those moments are not super beautiful to an outsiders eyes, but to your own, they are the things that keep you going day after day. Dancing with lightning bugs, stopping to watch the stars, feeling like children, and filling your glass one more time are all important moments of surrender.  Stop fighting what you want, and be who you be inside this big beautiful world.  I think  Jay-Z said it best….. “you was who you was before you got here.”

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summer is now is about me taking the time one particular summer day and evening to remember the kids i use to see all the time at Nice Jenkins shows, and just around town in general. i sat and wrote the beginning of the song while i ate brunch one Sunday in Belmont, observing them in all their hipster glory.

i always felt like i wasn’t totally accepted in that world, but that night they all embraced me with smiles and hi fives as if we were dear old friends who had somehow lost one another for a while. it was nice.

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