“Ahh, COWABUNGA. I love this song for many reasons, but the number one thing I’d say is this song really hits home for me as a whole. This is another song that initially came together with our buddy KJ. The first demo, which I actually still have on my phone, came when we were feeling pretty down on ourselves. We had been writing for like a year and a half on this album and weren’t coming up with the things we knew we wanted and had the potential to make. KJ and I went and got dinner to clear our heads and we decided there when we get back, ‘Let’s just write for fun, no reason, no purpose, let’s just riff and see what happens.’
“We got back home and sat down and I remembered this little acoustic thing KJ was playing earlier that day and it stuck with me so I had him start strumming that, and – boom! – right there the verses and the chorus melody for COWABUNGA just came out. It felt so good, even right there just the melody and the acoustic guitar I knew we finally had something that we’d been aiming for. That night we put together the very very first demo stages of what would become this little ditty.
“Lyrically this one means a lot to me. It’s really about feeling those lowest lows, and sometimes maybe you just wanna disappear and escape from everything and everyone. The main line of the chorus, ‘All alone / You can’t find me anywhere like I want you to,’ really lays that all out there to me, but the verses and everything in this song mean a lot to me. I definitely poured my heart into this one.”