The songs for “Divided We Fall” were real easy to make. I didn’t have a list of songs to choose from, instead I wrote each song specifically for this album. The overall idea for the album was to write songs that were about the personalities of the 2016 presidential candidates and a general song or two to use as glue for the album. So the song content selection was really decided by the presidential candidate race this year.
The interesting thing about writing an album like this is that I don’t, or didn’t know what was going to happen with the candidates as I wrote their songs. For instance, I wrote Cruz’n before Ted Cruz dropped out of the race. I knew, of course, that I would be writing songs about candidates that would not make it to the final round… so writing a song that could describe a candidate that was either going to win or lose was a parameter of my writing that I was careful about.