There’s a few things, about three things to my count that I need each day.
One I need something to look up to, another something to look forward to, and another is someone to chase.

Now first off I want to thank God, because that’s who I look up to. He has graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my hand or of any human hand. He has shown me that it is a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates. In the words of the late Charlie Laughton, who said “When you got God, you got a friend, and that friend is you”

To my family, that’s who and what I look forward to. To my Father who I know he is up there right now with a big pot of gumbo. He has got a lemon meringue pie over there, he is probably in his underwear and he has got a cold can of Miller Lite, he is dancing right now. To you Dad, you taught me what it means to be a man.

To my Mother who is here tonight, who taught me and my two older brothers, demanded that we respect ourselves. And what we in turn learned was that we were better able to respect others. Thank you for that Mama.

To my wife Camila, and my kids Levi, Vida, Mr stone. The courage and significance you give me everyday I go out the door is unparalleled. You are the four people in my life that I want to make the most proud of me, Thank you.

And to my hero, that’s who I chase. Now when I was 15 years old, I have a very important person in my life come to me and say, “Who is your hero?”. And I said I don’t know I gotta think about that, give me a couple of weeks. I come back two weeks later, this person comes up and says “Who’s your hero?” And so I thought about it and I said you know who it is, it’s me in 10 years.

So I turn 25, 10 years later that same person comes to me and goes “so are you a hero?” And I was like, not even close. No, no, no. She said “Why?” I said because my hero is me at 35. So you see every day, every week, every month and every year of my life, my hero is always 10 years away. I’m never going to beat my hero. I’m not going to obtain that, I know I’m not. And that’s just fine with me because that keeps me with somebody to keep on chasing.

So, to any of us, whatever those things are, whatever that is we look up to, whatever it is we look forward to, and whoever it is we are chasing to that I say amen. To that I say alright, alright, alright. And to that I say just keep living huh. Thank you.

關於友誼，關於所謂的兄弟情。

世界上還有什麼浪漫勝過於這種形式？將一起苦過的日子淬煉成花朵，綻放給全世界人看，
就算小眾，你還是能觸碰到那些跟你一樣頻率的人。

在寫這首歌的當下，心裡多少都是忐忑的吧？對於未來，所謂的安排與計畫在哪？品持著創作的信念走在這條路上，心裡面要承受的壓力豈是舒適生活的人們可以了解的？

種種因素下更可以顯得這首歌的可貴，在黑暗的日子裡，依然站穩著腳步，哪怕沒有發亮的一天也要在這角落裡穩穩的綻放。

這首歌，頭尾的錄音，再配上李英宏的文字，老派與新潮的音樂交織，一定可以打動你我內心，也可以是一種借鏡，提醒著活在這世上，到位的兄弟該有什麼模樣。