Other Lives We Wait ( Official Visualizer)

From the new album For Their Love out on ATO Records now. Order here: Sicily Sessions (Demos) available here: When I was 15, I formed the All American Rejects. This was my high school band. Always there in our everyday life were Tommy and Jennifer, a member s older sister and brotherinlaw. Tommy was the older brother I never had. Kind and wise, he was my mentor and family to me. Tommy was shot and killed at the age of 25, on the morning of 30th November. Jennifer, his wife, had hired his murderer. This event completely devastated and shattered my reality. I quit the Rejects and was very lost. I soon found the piano and started moving towards a deeper place inside, artistically, which has shaped me to this day. For many years, I had avoided this trauma and couldnt touch the subject. I pushed it out, only for it to haunt me more recently. Writing this song is the way