Writing For Yourself To Connect More With Others

Cris Cohen: I found this quote of yours where you're talking about bands that have had their success. You said, “Releasing music that they thought their audience wanted never elicited the same response as the music they released that was just for them.”

How long did it take you guys to make that connection with yourselves, to write from that perspective?

Lee Jennings of The Funeral Portrait: I think it was this record. I think we just wanted to write a record that we wanted to write, especially the newer songs that made the record. They're very personal songs.

Especially “Hearse For Two.” It is about my grandmother passing away and then this (fictional) love letter that my grandfather would write to her. My grandfather is the best human to ever walk planet Earth. My grandmother was as well. The idea of losing that person after… I think they were together 65 years... What is it like? So I wrote a song about it.

For us, it's way more about the personal connection that we bring. And fans love that. They love that story.