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Deryck on writing the first official single,“War”, off the upcoming album 13 Voices:

Q: Before you had mentioned something about “Walking Disaster”, that it was one of your toughest songs to write because it was so personal; with this record, did you find another song like that when creating it?

D: Yeah, I mean, there’s a song called “War” that was, it was an important song for me on the record because I wrote it right at this like tipping point of my recovery—the progress was so slow with recovering and I couldn’t walk yet, and it’d been almost a year, and everything just felt like it wasn’t getting better, and I could have easily just fell off and went back to drinking and stuff ‘cause I’m not getting any better, and you know, I might as well just drink away the last bit of my life, you know, “who cares?”, or I could push harder, and work harder, and try to get to where I’m trying to get to, and I wrote this song right at that moment. And, it was about fighting for what you love and, you know, harder than you’ve ever fought before. And once I had that song, I kind of like, “Well, I have this song now, so I kinda have to live up to it, ’cause how am I ‘gonna play this song?”, you know? So, that was an important song.

Q: Was that maybe like one of the first songs you put to paper for this record?

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“I think the best thing about us getting along is that we’ve just known each other for so long.”—Deryck Whibley

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