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Posted by Kevan Breitinger Sep 18, 2006 |
This one is from AudioA frontman Mark Stuart:
"Big House" - "I was in Haiti when I was in junior high school going back and forth with my parents on mission trips. I was inspired by these kids in Haiti singing a song that was the lyrical equivalent of 'Come and go with me to my father's house.' Also, Bill Gaither had a song when I was real little we'd do at puppet shows called 'Daddy I Heard You Had a Big House.' I was like in the 1st grade. I wanted to write a rock song that was fun and talked about heaven that made it sound like a good place to go because when I was growing up, it was kind of ominous and scary. When we wrote that song, Barry had a great guitar hook. I think we were on our way to Florida. We were going to the beach to hang out and we wrote it really quick. We didn't like it that much at the beginning, but my dad had heard it and said, 'Man this is a hit. Don't throw this away!' " I put it in my pocket and he said, 'Trust me, it's a big hit.'"