Chords for Aaron Shust's Best Song
Tempo:
90.95 bpm
Chords used:
B
E
A
C#m
C
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
You recently were like, where were you?
Like a rental car place or something?
Yeah, I was here in Nashville.
Okay.
And I was at Thrifty Rental Car.
I'll give them props,
because I've been using them for a while.
They've been great to me.
So I'm going to Thrifty,
and there's this guy there, his name's Spencer.
And I know he listens to AFM, so what's up Spencer?
Nice.
And he said, he's like, he's looking at my,
he's taking my information, he's looking at my license.
He was like, Schust, Aaron Schust.
Oh, you're a singer.
Like, I am, I'm not sure which way this is going to go.
And he's like, my kids love your song.
What's the name of your song?
And he's racking his brain.
And I'm going to give him a second,
then I'm going to prompt him.
Yeah, because you want to be kind
and kind of help them figure it out.
And not be like, obviously, oh, here's the song they love.
Right.
So I'm thinking, maybe it's probably my savior, my God.
Maybe my hope is in you.
A great one.
Thank you.
And so he, all of a sudden it hits him.
He points at me, looks at me dead in the eye.
Send the bears.
I heard you on the Wally show.
Send the bears.
My kids, you're the send the bears guy.
The best song you have ever written, by the way.
Apparently.
Apparently.
We had Aaron on and we're like, okay,
you know, everyone writes easy songs out of the Bible.
You like Tomlin, he just cherry picks.
And it's so easy for him to write these songs
about stuff in the Bible.
It takes nothing, right?
Yeah, it's like four words and three chords, done.
And so we thought it'd be fun to challenge
an artist of Aaron's caliber to write something
out of the tougher Bible verses in there.
And there's the one about sending the bears
and they ate children.
Yes, well, you had people call in and say,
stump Aaron, give him your hardest verses
you could think of.
And the second guy that called in said,
I forget what it was, but it's Elijah.
So Elijah's gonna be maybe second Samuel,
second Kings, second Kings.
Yeah, second Kings, that's what I was gonna say.
And of course, first Queens.
Yes, definitely second Kings.
I don't know the verse, but I know it's actually page 475.
Exactly, in the hymnal? Yeah, no.
Turn to page, no, but so there's Elijah evidently is bald
as we read from the Bible.
He's a bald guy and these kids,
these teenagers are making fun of him.
And he basically, as a prophet of God says,
don't make fun of the Lord's prophet.
And he calls 42 bears out of the woods
to come and maul them.
I have never tried that strategy before.
I, well, first I gotta become a prophet,
but after that I'm calling bears.
Like how awesome is that to be able to have that kind
of power to call bears, to mess with people
that mess with you?
It wasn't 42 bears, it was like two bears and 42 kids.
Did I say that backwards?
Oh, it doesn't matter.
Research it on your own.
Kids were mauled.
Yeah, exactly.
I think we're losing sight of what's important.
He called in bears and children were eaten.
Incredible, and that's in the Bible.
So that was the challenge, to write a song,
a worship song about that.
And there's never a flannelgram on that in Sunday school.
Like there's never one of those.
If it's for sale, I wanna purchase it.
Exactly, you know what, let's do this.
Let's do the best song that Aaron Shuse has ever written.
His version is original of Send the Bears
here on The Wally Show.
Go away, Baldi, go away, Baldi,
[A] that's what they called me, [E] a prophet of God.
Yeah, go away, Baldi, go away, Baldi,
that's what they called [B] me, a prophet of [A] God.
Well, we're not gonna [B] take it anymore.
[B] No, send [E] your bears,
send your bears,
send them out of the woods
[C#m] and maul all [B] 42 like Elijah do.
Lord, send the [E] bears.
That is awesome.
I actually would actually raise my hands to that.
[C]
We haven't seen each other for quite some time now.
You've been busy.
It's been a couple of years.
I have been busy and I've spent a season busy at home.
This is 10 years for me of what I call road ministry.
So this spring I decided not to tour,
but I've been working on a new record
and taking some worship leading opportunities.
So I've been busy, but it's been a while
since we've hung out.
Yeah, well that's cool though.
It'd be great to have some new music from you.
I mean, I love what you've been doing lately, obviously.
Thanks, man, I'm excited about the new stuff.
So what does downtime look like for you then?
You're like, okay, you're go, go, go, go, go,
and then you just stop doing what you do
and what you've done for the last 10 years.
What does that look like?
It makes you reevaluate because you always hear
that as men we take pride in what we do.
So after a busy fall last year and even a busy Christmas,
my Christmas record came out,
so going around and doing that stuff,
it's go, go, go, and to say, okay,
I'm just gonna stay home.
First of all, it's a big risk because as musicians,
whether it's just going out on the road,
there's income when you do shows,
and then there's income whenever you sell records
at the shows that you do.
There's a double whammy where I'm not getting any income.
So try explaining that to the manager and the record label.
But so you stay busy in a different way,
[N] but for me, it was an important say,
let's say this is 10 years,
let's reevaluate what I'm doing, why I'm doing it,
what I need to be doing,
what God might have for me in the next 10 years.
So I'm home, I also stay busy shoveling the snow
and playing with the kids and cutting the grass now.
So just doing home stuff, but it's an interesting,
I'm definitely not lazy.
I've been telling people, listen, I'm not off.
I'm just off the road.
Well, we're talking to Aaron Schust.
And be honest here though,
but about probably a month into being off the road
and at home, was your wife like,
you have to go back on the road.
Like, were you just driving her crazy?
You know what?
No, I mentioned the album that's coming out.
So I scheduled myself a bunch of writing dates at home
in Pittsburgh on Skype with people down here in Nashville,
Atlanta, other places that I know and I trust that I love.
And so I would seriously disappear,
even though I'm in the house,
I would disappear at a certain time of the day
for a certain time and just,
maybe I'd come up for lunch, but I would disappear.
There is something that wives like about that though.
Like, I know my wife likes me home.
Even if I'm working, she likes to know that I'm home
because she's one of the few people in this world
that like me.
And so she likes that.
But I know guys that are on the road,
either musicians or even sales guys, they'll be gone.
And then when they come home, they drive their wife crazy
because they want to do what guys do,
and that's lead and run this thing.
And the wives are like, look,
I do this nine months out of the year while you're gone.
Yeah, it's been going fine when I'm gone.
Now you come back and like, hey, we need to do this.
The kids need to be in bed at this time.
No, listen, seriously, I got this.
But at the same time, there's, you know,
my wife, you know, I have three kids,
two of them with special needs
that just keep her a little extra busy.
All of a sudden I come home
and I'm two extra hands who can help.
Yeah.
And I'm used to doing what I'm used to doing.
And she's like, no, I need you to, it takes about-
It's the greatest, he brings a roadie home with him.
I'm not picking up a kid,
he snaps in a roadie comes out and picks up the kid.
That's ingenious.
Hey babe, what's for catering tonight?
I mean-
Exactly, exactly.
You're such a rockstar, Fuse, and I love it.
Like a rental car place or something?
Yeah, I was here in Nashville.
Okay.
And I was at Thrifty Rental Car.
I'll give them props,
because I've been using them for a while.
They've been great to me.
So I'm going to Thrifty,
and there's this guy there, his name's Spencer.
And I know he listens to AFM, so what's up Spencer?
Nice.
And he said, he's like, he's looking at my,
he's taking my information, he's looking at my license.
He was like, Schust, Aaron Schust.
Oh, you're a singer.
Like, I am, I'm not sure which way this is going to go.
And he's like, my kids love your song.
What's the name of your song?
And he's racking his brain.
And I'm going to give him a second,
then I'm going to prompt him.
Yeah, because you want to be kind
and kind of help them figure it out.
And not be like, obviously, oh, here's the song they love.
Right.
So I'm thinking, maybe it's probably my savior, my God.
Maybe my hope is in you.
A great one.
Thank you.
And so he, all of a sudden it hits him.
He points at me, looks at me dead in the eye.
Send the bears.
I heard you on the Wally show.
Send the bears.
My kids, you're the send the bears guy.
The best song you have ever written, by the way.
Apparently.
Apparently.
We had Aaron on and we're like, okay,
you know, everyone writes easy songs out of the Bible.
You like Tomlin, he just cherry picks.
And it's so easy for him to write these songs
about stuff in the Bible.
It takes nothing, right?
Yeah, it's like four words and three chords, done.
And so we thought it'd be fun to challenge
an artist of Aaron's caliber to write something
out of the tougher Bible verses in there.
And there's the one about sending the bears
and they ate children.
Yes, well, you had people call in and say,
stump Aaron, give him your hardest verses
you could think of.
And the second guy that called in said,
I forget what it was, but it's Elijah.
So Elijah's gonna be maybe second Samuel,
second Kings, second Kings.
Yeah, second Kings, that's what I was gonna say.
And of course, first Queens.
Yes, definitely second Kings.
I don't know the verse, but I know it's actually page 475.
Exactly, in the hymnal? Yeah, no.
Turn to page, no, but so there's Elijah evidently is bald
as we read from the Bible.
He's a bald guy and these kids,
these teenagers are making fun of him.
And he basically, as a prophet of God says,
don't make fun of the Lord's prophet.
And he calls 42 bears out of the woods
to come and maul them.
I have never tried that strategy before.
I, well, first I gotta become a prophet,
but after that I'm calling bears.
Like how awesome is that to be able to have that kind
of power to call bears, to mess with people
that mess with you?
It wasn't 42 bears, it was like two bears and 42 kids.
Did I say that backwards?
Oh, it doesn't matter.
Research it on your own.
Kids were mauled.
Yeah, exactly.
I think we're losing sight of what's important.
He called in bears and children were eaten.
Incredible, and that's in the Bible.
So that was the challenge, to write a song,
a worship song about that.
And there's never a flannelgram on that in Sunday school.
Like there's never one of those.
If it's for sale, I wanna purchase it.
Exactly, you know what, let's do this.
Let's do the best song that Aaron Shuse has ever written.
His version is original of Send the Bears
here on The Wally Show.
Go away, Baldi, go away, Baldi,
[A] that's what they called me, [E] a prophet of God.
Yeah, go away, Baldi, go away, Baldi,
that's what they called [B] me, a prophet of [A] God.
Well, we're not gonna [B] take it anymore.
[B] No, send [E] your bears,
send your bears,
send them out of the woods
[C#m] and maul all [B] 42 like Elijah do.
Lord, send the [E] bears.
That is awesome.
I actually would actually raise my hands to that.
[C]
We haven't seen each other for quite some time now.
You've been busy.
It's been a couple of years.
I have been busy and I've spent a season busy at home.
This is 10 years for me of what I call road ministry.
So this spring I decided not to tour,
but I've been working on a new record
and taking some worship leading opportunities.
So I've been busy, but it's been a while
since we've hung out.
Yeah, well that's cool though.
It'd be great to have some new music from you.
I mean, I love what you've been doing lately, obviously.
Thanks, man, I'm excited about the new stuff.
So what does downtime look like for you then?
You're like, okay, you're go, go, go, go, go,
and then you just stop doing what you do
and what you've done for the last 10 years.
What does that look like?
It makes you reevaluate because you always hear
that as men we take pride in what we do.
So after a busy fall last year and even a busy Christmas,
my Christmas record came out,
so going around and doing that stuff,
it's go, go, go, and to say, okay,
I'm just gonna stay home.
First of all, it's a big risk because as musicians,
whether it's just going out on the road,
there's income when you do shows,
and then there's income whenever you sell records
at the shows that you do.
There's a double whammy where I'm not getting any income.
So try explaining that to the manager and the record label.
But so you stay busy in a different way,
[N] but for me, it was an important say,
let's say this is 10 years,
let's reevaluate what I'm doing, why I'm doing it,
what I need to be doing,
what God might have for me in the next 10 years.
So I'm home, I also stay busy shoveling the snow
and playing with the kids and cutting the grass now.
So just doing home stuff, but it's an interesting,
I'm definitely not lazy.
I've been telling people, listen, I'm not off.
I'm just off the road.
Well, we're talking to Aaron Schust.
And be honest here though,
but about probably a month into being off the road
and at home, was your wife like,
you have to go back on the road.
Like, were you just driving her crazy?
You know what?
No, I mentioned the album that's coming out.
So I scheduled myself a bunch of writing dates at home
in Pittsburgh on Skype with people down here in Nashville,
Atlanta, other places that I know and I trust that I love.
And so I would seriously disappear,
even though I'm in the house,
I would disappear at a certain time of the day
for a certain time and just,
maybe I'd come up for lunch, but I would disappear.
There is something that wives like about that though.
Like, I know my wife likes me home.
Even if I'm working, she likes to know that I'm home
because she's one of the few people in this world
that like me.
And so she likes that.
But I know guys that are on the road,
either musicians or even sales guys, they'll be gone.
And then when they come home, they drive their wife crazy
because they want to do what guys do,
and that's lead and run this thing.
And the wives are like, look,
I do this nine months out of the year while you're gone.
Yeah, it's been going fine when I'm gone.
Now you come back and like, hey, we need to do this.
The kids need to be in bed at this time.
No, listen, seriously, I got this.
But at the same time, there's, you know,
my wife, you know, I have three kids,
two of them with special needs
that just keep her a little extra busy.
All of a sudden I come home
and I'm two extra hands who can help.
Yeah.
And I'm used to doing what I'm used to doing.
And she's like, no, I need you to, it takes about-
It's the greatest, he brings a roadie home with him.
I'm not picking up a kid,
he snaps in a roadie comes out and picks up the kid.
That's ingenious.
Hey babe, what's for catering tonight?
I mean-
Exactly, exactly.
You're such a rockstar, Fuse, and I love it.
Key:
B
E
A
C#m
C
B
E
A
You recently were like, where were you?
Like a rental car place or something?
Yeah, I was here in Nashville.
Okay.
And I was at Thrifty Rental Car.
I'll give them props,
because I've been using them for a while.
They've been great to me.
So I'm going to Thrifty,
and there's this guy there, his name's Spencer.
And I know he listens to AFM, so what's up Spencer?
Nice.
And he said, he's like, he's looking at my,
he's taking my information, he's looking at my license.
He was like, Schust, Aaron Schust.
Oh, you're a singer.
Like, I am, I'm not sure which way this is going to go.
And he's like, my kids love your song.
What's the name of your song?
And he's racking his brain.
And I'm going to give him a second,
then I'm going to prompt him.
Yeah, because you want to be kind
and kind of help them figure it out.
And not be like, obviously, oh, here's the song they love.
Right.
So I'm thinking, maybe it's probably my savior, my God.
Maybe my hope is in you.
A great one.
Thank you.
And so he, all of a sudden it hits him.
He points at me, looks at me dead in the eye.
Send the bears.
I heard you on the Wally show.
Send the bears.
My kids, you're the send the bears guy.
The best song you have ever written, by the way.
Apparently.
Apparently.
We had Aaron on and we're like, okay,
you know, everyone writes easy songs out of the Bible.
You like Tomlin, he just cherry picks.
And it's so easy for him to write these songs
about stuff in the Bible.
It takes nothing, right?
Yeah, it's like four words and three chords, done.
And so we thought it'd be fun to challenge
an artist of Aaron's caliber to write something
out of the tougher Bible verses in there.
And there's the one about sending the bears
and they ate children.
Yes, well, you had people call in and say,
stump Aaron, give him your hardest verses
you could think of.
And the second guy that called in said,
I forget what it was, but it's Elijah.
So Elijah's gonna be maybe second Samuel,
second Kings, second Kings.
Yeah, second Kings, that's what I was gonna say.
And of course, first Queens.
Yes, definitely second Kings.
I don't know the verse, but I know it's actually page 475.
Exactly, in the hymnal? Yeah, no.
Turn to page, no, but so there's Elijah evidently is bald
as we read from the Bible.
He's a bald guy and these kids,
these teenagers are making fun of him.
And he basically, as a prophet of God says,
don't make fun of the Lord's prophet.
And he calls 42 bears out of the woods
to come and maul them.
I have never tried that strategy before.
I, well, first I gotta become a prophet,
but after that I'm calling bears.
Like how awesome is that to be able to have that kind
of power to call bears, to mess with people
that mess with you?
It wasn't 42 bears, it was like two bears and 42 kids.
Did I say that backwards?
Oh, it doesn't matter.
Research it on your own.
Kids were mauled.
Yeah, exactly.
I think we're losing sight of what's important.
He called in bears and children were eaten.
Incredible, and that's in the Bible.
So that was the challenge, to write a song,
a worship song about that.
And there's never a flannelgram on that in Sunday school.
Like there's never one of those.
If it's for sale, I wanna purchase it.
Exactly, you know what, let's do this.
Let's do the best song that Aaron Shuse has ever written.
His version is original of Send the Bears
here on The Wally Show.
_ Go away, Baldi, go away, Baldi,
[A] that's what they called me, [E] a prophet of God.
Yeah, go away, Baldi, go away, Baldi,
that's what they called [B] me, a prophet of [A] God.
Well, we're not gonna [B] take it anymore. _
[B] _ No, send [E] your bears, _
send your bears, _ _
send them out of the woods
[C#m] and maul all [B] 42 like Elijah do.
Lord, send the [E] bears.
That is awesome.
I actually would actually raise my hands to that.
_ [C]
We haven't seen each other for quite some time now.
You've been busy.
It's been a couple of years.
I have been busy and I've spent a season busy at home.
This is 10 years for me of what I call road ministry.
So this spring I decided not to tour,
but I've been working on a new record
and taking some worship leading opportunities.
So I've been busy, but it's been a while
since we've hung out.
Yeah, well that's cool though.
It'd be great to have some new music from you.
I mean, I love what you've been doing lately, obviously.
Thanks, man, I'm excited about the new stuff.
So what does downtime look like for you then?
You're like, okay, you're go, go, go, go, go,
and then you just stop doing what you do
and what you've done for the last 10 years.
What does that look like?
It makes you reevaluate because you always hear
that as men we take pride in what we do.
So after a busy fall last year and even a busy Christmas,
my Christmas record came out,
so going around and doing that stuff,
it's go, go, go, and to say, okay,
I'm just gonna stay home.
First of all, it's a big risk because as musicians,
whether it's just going out on the road,
there's income when you do shows,
and then there's income whenever you sell records
at the shows that you do.
There's a double whammy where I'm not getting any income.
So try explaining that to the manager and the record label.
But so you stay busy in a different way,
[N] but for me, it was an important say,
let's say this is 10 years,
let's reevaluate what I'm doing, why I'm doing it,
what I need to be doing,
what God might have for me in the next 10 years.
So I'm home, I also stay busy shoveling the snow
and playing with the kids and cutting the grass now.
So just doing home stuff, but it's an interesting,
I'm definitely not lazy.
I've been telling people, listen, I'm not off.
I'm just off the road.
Well, we're talking to Aaron Schust.
And be honest here though,
but about probably a month into being off the road
and at home, was your wife like,
you have to go back on the road.
Like, were you just driving her crazy?
You know what?
No, I mentioned the album that's coming out.
So I scheduled myself a bunch of writing dates at home
in Pittsburgh on Skype with people down here in Nashville,
Atlanta, other places that I know and I trust that I love.
And so I would seriously disappear,
even though I'm in the house,
I would disappear at a certain time of the day
for a certain time and just,
maybe I'd come up for lunch, but I would disappear.
There is something that wives like about that though.
Like, I know my wife likes me home.
Even if I'm working, she likes to know that I'm home
because she's one of the few people in this world
that like me.
And so she likes that.
But I know guys that are on the road,
either musicians or even sales guys, they'll be gone.
And then when they come home, they drive their wife crazy
because they want to do what guys do,
and that's lead and run this thing.
And the wives are like, look,
I do this nine months out of the year while you're gone.
Yeah, it's been going fine when I'm gone.
Now you come back and like, hey, we need to do this.
The kids need to be in bed at this time.
No, listen, seriously, I got this.
But at the same time, there's, you know,
my wife, you know, I have three kids,
two of them with special needs
that just keep her a little extra busy.
All of a sudden I come home
and I'm two extra hands who can help.
Yeah.
And I'm used to doing what I'm used to doing.
And she's like, no, I need you to, it takes about-
It's the greatest, he brings a roadie home with him.
I'm not picking up a kid,
he snaps in a roadie comes out and picks up the kid.
That's ingenious.
Hey babe, what's for catering tonight?
I mean-
Exactly, exactly.
You're such a rockstar, Fuse, and I love it. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Like a rental car place or something?
Yeah, I was here in Nashville.
Okay.
And I was at Thrifty Rental Car.
I'll give them props,
because I've been using them for a while.
They've been great to me.
So I'm going to Thrifty,
and there's this guy there, his name's Spencer.
And I know he listens to AFM, so what's up Spencer?
Nice.
And he said, he's like, he's looking at my,
he's taking my information, he's looking at my license.
He was like, Schust, Aaron Schust.
Oh, you're a singer.
Like, I am, I'm not sure which way this is going to go.
And he's like, my kids love your song.
What's the name of your song?
And he's racking his brain.
And I'm going to give him a second,
then I'm going to prompt him.
Yeah, because you want to be kind
and kind of help them figure it out.
And not be like, obviously, oh, here's the song they love.
Right.
So I'm thinking, maybe it's probably my savior, my God.
Maybe my hope is in you.
A great one.
Thank you.
And so he, all of a sudden it hits him.
He points at me, looks at me dead in the eye.
Send the bears.
I heard you on the Wally show.
Send the bears.
My kids, you're the send the bears guy.
The best song you have ever written, by the way.
Apparently.
Apparently.
We had Aaron on and we're like, okay,
you know, everyone writes easy songs out of the Bible.
You like Tomlin, he just cherry picks.
And it's so easy for him to write these songs
about stuff in the Bible.
It takes nothing, right?
Yeah, it's like four words and three chords, done.
And so we thought it'd be fun to challenge
an artist of Aaron's caliber to write something
out of the tougher Bible verses in there.
And there's the one about sending the bears
and they ate children.
Yes, well, you had people call in and say,
stump Aaron, give him your hardest verses
you could think of.
And the second guy that called in said,
I forget what it was, but it's Elijah.
So Elijah's gonna be maybe second Samuel,
second Kings, second Kings.
Yeah, second Kings, that's what I was gonna say.
And of course, first Queens.
Yes, definitely second Kings.
I don't know the verse, but I know it's actually page 475.
Exactly, in the hymnal? Yeah, no.
Turn to page, no, but so there's Elijah evidently is bald
as we read from the Bible.
He's a bald guy and these kids,
these teenagers are making fun of him.
And he basically, as a prophet of God says,
don't make fun of the Lord's prophet.
And he calls 42 bears out of the woods
to come and maul them.
I have never tried that strategy before.
I, well, first I gotta become a prophet,
but after that I'm calling bears.
Like how awesome is that to be able to have that kind
of power to call bears, to mess with people
that mess with you?
It wasn't 42 bears, it was like two bears and 42 kids.
Did I say that backwards?
Oh, it doesn't matter.
Research it on your own.
Kids were mauled.
Yeah, exactly.
I think we're losing sight of what's important.
He called in bears and children were eaten.
Incredible, and that's in the Bible.
So that was the challenge, to write a song,
a worship song about that.
And there's never a flannelgram on that in Sunday school.
Like there's never one of those.
If it's for sale, I wanna purchase it.
Exactly, you know what, let's do this.
Let's do the best song that Aaron Shuse has ever written.
His version is original of Send the Bears
here on The Wally Show.
_ Go away, Baldi, go away, Baldi,
[A] that's what they called me, [E] a prophet of God.
Yeah, go away, Baldi, go away, Baldi,
that's what they called [B] me, a prophet of [A] God.
Well, we're not gonna [B] take it anymore. _
[B] _ No, send [E] your bears, _
send your bears, _ _
send them out of the woods
[C#m] and maul all [B] 42 like Elijah do.
Lord, send the [E] bears.
That is awesome.
I actually would actually raise my hands to that.
_ [C]
We haven't seen each other for quite some time now.
You've been busy.
It's been a couple of years.
I have been busy and I've spent a season busy at home.
This is 10 years for me of what I call road ministry.
So this spring I decided not to tour,
but I've been working on a new record
and taking some worship leading opportunities.
So I've been busy, but it's been a while
since we've hung out.
Yeah, well that's cool though.
It'd be great to have some new music from you.
I mean, I love what you've been doing lately, obviously.
Thanks, man, I'm excited about the new stuff.
So what does downtime look like for you then?
You're like, okay, you're go, go, go, go, go,
and then you just stop doing what you do
and what you've done for the last 10 years.
What does that look like?
It makes you reevaluate because you always hear
that as men we take pride in what we do.
So after a busy fall last year and even a busy Christmas,
my Christmas record came out,
so going around and doing that stuff,
it's go, go, go, and to say, okay,
I'm just gonna stay home.
First of all, it's a big risk because as musicians,
whether it's just going out on the road,
there's income when you do shows,
and then there's income whenever you sell records
at the shows that you do.
There's a double whammy where I'm not getting any income.
So try explaining that to the manager and the record label.
But so you stay busy in a different way,
[N] but for me, it was an important say,
let's say this is 10 years,
let's reevaluate what I'm doing, why I'm doing it,
what I need to be doing,
what God might have for me in the next 10 years.
So I'm home, I also stay busy shoveling the snow
and playing with the kids and cutting the grass now.
So just doing home stuff, but it's an interesting,
I'm definitely not lazy.
I've been telling people, listen, I'm not off.
I'm just off the road.
Well, we're talking to Aaron Schust.
And be honest here though,
but about probably a month into being off the road
and at home, was your wife like,
you have to go back on the road.
Like, were you just driving her crazy?
You know what?
No, I mentioned the album that's coming out.
So I scheduled myself a bunch of writing dates at home
in Pittsburgh on Skype with people down here in Nashville,
Atlanta, other places that I know and I trust that I love.
And so I would seriously disappear,
even though I'm in the house,
I would disappear at a certain time of the day
for a certain time and just,
maybe I'd come up for lunch, but I would disappear.
There is something that wives like about that though.
Like, I know my wife likes me home.
Even if I'm working, she likes to know that I'm home
because she's one of the few people in this world
that like me.
And so she likes that.
But I know guys that are on the road,
either musicians or even sales guys, they'll be gone.
And then when they come home, they drive their wife crazy
because they want to do what guys do,
and that's lead and run this thing.
And the wives are like, look,
I do this nine months out of the year while you're gone.
Yeah, it's been going fine when I'm gone.
Now you come back and like, hey, we need to do this.
The kids need to be in bed at this time.
No, listen, seriously, I got this.
But at the same time, there's, you know,
my wife, you know, I have three kids,
two of them with special needs
that just keep her a little extra busy.
All of a sudden I come home
and I'm two extra hands who can help.
Yeah.
And I'm used to doing what I'm used to doing.
And she's like, no, I need you to, it takes about-
It's the greatest, he brings a roadie home with him.
I'm not picking up a kid,
he snaps in a roadie comes out and picks up the kid.
That's ingenious.
Hey babe, what's for catering tonight?
I mean-
Exactly, exactly.
You're such a rockstar, Fuse, and I love it. _
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