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Hey guys, I'm Zach Bryan.
I am Spotify's [Em] newest U.S. radar artist.
[G] [E] [Em]
How do I feel about being a radar artist?
It means the [F#] world.
It really does.
When [G] my managers called me and stuff, we like freaked out.
It was like a huge moment for me to be some redneck from Oklahoma and then be like, hey,
you want to be a part of this [Em] sick thing that Spotify's doing?
I was like, yeah, man, it'd be amazing, you know?
Everyone at Spotify has been [G] good to us, always.
So it's like really, it feels like we're like scratching each other's backs almost.
I'm really blessed.
I'm really thankful.
[Em] If I had to define it in 30 seconds, I'd say it was kind of [D] accidentally, you know?
Like, [G] didn't mean to be a musician, you know?
It's really beautiful what happened with just writing songs and stuff.
Because I always wrote [Em] songs being in the Navy, I would come home off a shift and I
would just play the songs, you know?
And then for them to turn into something is [G] more than I could ever ask for.
[Em] It was like a relief for me for a long time to be in the Navy and get [C] yelled at by all
these old dudes all day.
And me [G] and all the guys would be like, what do we do?
Get away [D] from this.
And we would always get beers and go down to the barracks.
We'd just make [Em] up these stupid [C] songs about everything.
[G] I was always just around people just throwing songs together.
And I was like, this is a cool way [Em] to express yourself.
When we were in the desert, when we were deployed and stuff, we would always go back to the
[G] rooms and just jam out and make videos and [D] stuff.
That's how I started.
That's all I do is just sit in my room and play music and then record [C] it and see what happens.
And that's really important [G] to me.
Because it's a relief from life.
That's why everyone [D] wants to play music or listen to music.
Time to [Em] step away and time to feel something.
It's like that for me too as an artist.
It's cool.
[G] Dude, I just want to write music.
That's all.
[Em] Write and record music is my dream.
Make those songs that [C] you and your grandpa talk [G] about.
Or you and your buddies, I don't know if songs [D] come out and stuff and you text each other
and you're like, do you hear this?
This is insane.
I want [E] to write songs like that.
Touring is cool, but I'm more into the writing and making of good [G] music.
The process of making the album, there wasn't one [E] at all.
There are 33 songs and a poem [Em] on the album.
Too many.
At one point I had written the saddest album of all time.
So I just kept writing and kept writing.
[E] When we went into the [G] studio, like Electric Lady, I wanted to go to Electric Lady because
I didn't want it to sound like anything.
And I respect Nashville a lot and I respect all the scenes [E] and people and genres and artists
a lot, [Em] but I didn't want it to sound like anything I'd heard.
So I wanted to go somewhere where country artists [G] or Americana folk artists don't usually go.
[D] And there were a lot of songs on there.
So me and the [Em] guys, the guys that Eddie brought from Nashville, we just sat [G] in the control
room and sang every single [D] one live and just tracked them all.
And it was the [Em] funnest I've ever had in my whole life.
Dude, I remember being in the Navy and trying to [G] produce all this stuff by myself and putting
guitar strings together.
It was like sandbox [Em] mode for a guy like me to be in Electric Lady.
And they're like, hey, what do you want it to sound like?
I'm like, I guess [G] this.
[D] [Em] [C] If people are going [G] to trust me to be an artist, I want to be [D] trusted to tell the story the
best that I can.
And [Em] all those songs had a place to be told.
You write all your own music and you have to find a place where they all [G] fit together.
That's a really vulnerable place to be.
I wrote something that together is like a whole story.
It was a [Em] bitch to record, I'll tell you that.
What a dream come true, right?
Is to freaking record [G] music with all your boys in a room for a month.
Dude, it was insane.
We would record a song and be so wired that we just kept going.
I [Em] lost my voice like 40 times.
It was cool.
We [E] recorded this song called Heavy Eyes, [Em] song number three on [E] the album.
And we get done recording it and it's the [G] fastest song probably in existence.
Not really, but we recorded it live and it's like hyperspeed on the guitar.
So I was [Em] sweating, drenched in sweat.
And we're playing it as fast as we possibly can.
Eddie, my British producer, is like, hey, mates, you want to go get some [A] ice cream?
And so we all [G] go get ice cream and we're walking through on 8th Street.
Eddie looks at all of us and he goes, I feel like we've died and [F#] went to heaven.
No, [Em] really, look around.
Who would have thought?
We get back to the studio and he's like, let's try it again.
And we recorded Heavy Eyes again, like four times faster, [G] cracking up the entire time.
And we're all just blitzed and tired and we hated our lives.
And it was [Em] probably one of the best memories of my entire life.
[C] What is most [G] important for me to understand, or for my fans to [D] understand about me and my music?
[Em] I'm a human being, you know?
[C] And I want that experience to be [G] the main driving force of the music [D] itself.
We're all just humans [Em] trying to get through life and enjoy each [C] day together.
I don't know why or [G] where the idea came from that artists are these gods or whatever,
but [Em] we're all just people.
[C] [G] Goals for the future, huh?
I'm the luckiest [D] guy in the world, don't get me wrong,
but I really want to get a degree [Em] from somewhere,
because no one in my family has one,
and I just want to bucket list it and get [G] a degree.
So I'm going to focus on that in the next few years.
[D] I also want to play shows [Em] that mean a lot to me,
play shows that I want to play and enjoy it with the guys [C] that I play this music with.
[G] It's going to be amazing.
[D] I want to release songs that mean the world to [Em] people.
I want to always talk to my fans, the people who listen to my music.
That's what I'm most looking forward to.
Dude, having [G] a family too, man.
I'm 26, getting up there.
Probably when I'm 30, 35, freaking settling down somewhere,
[Em] getting to the outskirts.
That's what I'm most looking forward to.
[G]
When I listen to songs, I [F#] want people to know that I'm listening to my music with them.
[E] I'm not playing it for them, I'm listening to [Em] it with them.
I'm making it.
We all make [C] mistakes, and we all try our [G] best,
and we all wake up every day and look for the next [D] thing that means something to us.
[Em] All of us.
[G] [D] Inspires me as [E] an artist.
[C] People in my corner.
Damn.
I can say that [G] not crying here pretty soon.
[D] Oh, shit.
[Em] I think it drives everybody.
Dude, the people you love in your corner, man.
It's like why anyone does anything.
[G] And it's cool.
It's really cool.
[D] Yeah.
[Em] Everyone's living a different life,
and to get to write [C] music for people [G] who are there to enjoy it
is [E] the greatest blessing someone could ever have.
You know?
Quiet on set, please. Amy Pondmark.
Let's do a PSA about reading a book.
Here's how it goes.
I'm really, really excited for you guys to hear American Heartbreak.
When we're done, we're taking it.
Fucking smashed it.
Yes.
I'm proud of you. Yes.
Let's take Jake over here.
Hi.
Hi.
I'm Zach Bryan.
No.
Okay, hold up.
Can I smash the stool?
Yes or no?
It goes on my new album, American Heartbreak, on Spotify now.
Smash it now or later?
I'll give you another one to smash it.
Okay, cool.
Yeah, let's just do one more.
Hi, I'm Zach Bryan.
Hey guys, I'm Zach Bryan.
I am Spotify's [Em] newest U.S. radar artist.
[G] [E] [Em]
How do I feel about being a radar artist?
It means the [F#] world.
It really does.
When [G] my managers called me and stuff, we like freaked out.
It was like a huge moment for me to be some redneck from Oklahoma and then be like, hey,
you want to be a part of this [Em] sick thing that Spotify's doing?
I was like, yeah, man, it'd be amazing, you know?
Everyone at Spotify has been [G] good to us, always.
So it's like really, it feels like we're like scratching each other's backs almost.
I'm really blessed.
I'm really thankful.
[Em] If I had to define it in 30 seconds, I'd say it was kind of [D] accidentally, you know?
Like, [G] didn't mean to be a musician, you know?
It's really beautiful what happened with just writing songs and stuff.
Because I always wrote [Em] songs being in the Navy, I would come home off a shift and I
would just play the songs, you know?
And then for them to turn into something is [G] more than I could ever ask for.
[Em] It was like a relief for me for a long time to be in the Navy and get [C] yelled at by all
these old dudes all day.
And me [G] and all the guys would be like, what do we do?
Get away [D] from this.
And we would always get beers and go down to the barracks.
We'd just make [Em] up these stupid [C] songs about everything.
[G] I was always just around people just throwing songs together.
And I was like, this is a cool way [Em] to express yourself.
When we were in the desert, when we were deployed and stuff, we would always go back to the
[G] rooms and just jam out and make videos and [D] stuff.
That's how I started.
That's all I do is just sit in my room and play music and then record [C] it and see what happens.
And that's really important [G] to me.
Because it's a relief from life.
That's why everyone [D] wants to play music or listen to music.
Time to [Em] step away and time to feel something.
It's like that for me too as an artist.
It's cool.
[G] Dude, I just want to write music.
That's all.
[Em] Write and record music is my dream.
Make those songs that [C] you and your grandpa talk [G] about.
Or you and your buddies, I don't know if songs [D] come out and stuff and you text each other
and you're like, do you hear this?
This is insane.
I want [E] to write songs like that.
Touring is cool, but I'm more into the writing and making of good [G] music.
The process of making the album, there wasn't one [E] at all.
There are 33 songs and a poem [Em] on the album.
Too many.
At one point I had written the saddest album of all time.
So I just kept writing and kept writing.
[E] When we went into the [G] studio, like Electric Lady, I wanted to go to Electric Lady because
I didn't want it to sound like anything.
And I respect Nashville a lot and I respect all the scenes [E] and people and genres and artists
a lot, [Em] but I didn't want it to sound like anything I'd heard.
So I wanted to go somewhere where country artists [G] or Americana folk artists don't usually go.
[D] And there were a lot of songs on there.
So me and the [Em] guys, the guys that Eddie brought from Nashville, we just sat [G] in the control
room and sang every single [D] one live and just tracked them all.
And it was the [Em] funnest I've ever had in my whole life.
Dude, I remember being in the Navy and trying to [G] produce all this stuff by myself and putting
guitar strings together.
It was like sandbox [Em] mode for a guy like me to be in Electric Lady.
And they're like, hey, what do you want it to sound like?
I'm like, I guess [G] this.
[D] [Em] [C] If people are going [G] to trust me to be an artist, I want to be [D] trusted to tell the story the
best that I can.
And [Em] all those songs had a place to be told.
You write all your own music and you have to find a place where they all [G] fit together.
That's a really vulnerable place to be.
I wrote something that together is like a whole story.
It was a [Em] bitch to record, I'll tell you that.
What a dream come true, right?
Is to freaking record [G] music with all your boys in a room for a month.
Dude, it was insane.
We would record a song and be so wired that we just kept going.
I [Em] lost my voice like 40 times.
It was cool.
We [E] recorded this song called Heavy Eyes, [Em] song number three on [E] the album.
And we get done recording it and it's the [G] fastest song probably in existence.
Not really, but we recorded it live and it's like hyperspeed on the guitar.
So I was [Em] sweating, drenched in sweat.
And we're playing it as fast as we possibly can.
Eddie, my British producer, is like, hey, mates, you want to go get some [A] ice cream?
And so we all [G] go get ice cream and we're walking through on 8th Street.
Eddie looks at all of us and he goes, I feel like we've died and [F#] went to heaven.
No, [Em] really, look around.
Who would have thought?
We get back to the studio and he's like, let's try it again.
And we recorded Heavy Eyes again, like four times faster, [G] cracking up the entire time.
And we're all just blitzed and tired and we hated our lives.
And it was [Em] probably one of the best memories of my entire life.
[C] What is most [G] important for me to understand, or for my fans to [D] understand about me and my music?
[Em] I'm a human being, you know?
[C] And I want that experience to be [G] the main driving force of the music [D] itself.
We're all just humans [Em] trying to get through life and enjoy each [C] day together.
I don't know why or [G] where the idea came from that artists are these gods or whatever,
but [Em] we're all just people.
[C] [G] Goals for the future, huh?
I'm the luckiest [D] guy in the world, don't get me wrong,
but I really want to get a degree [Em] from somewhere,
because no one in my family has one,
and I just want to bucket list it and get [G] a degree.
So I'm going to focus on that in the next few years.
[D] I also want to play shows [Em] that mean a lot to me,
play shows that I want to play and enjoy it with the guys [C] that I play this music with.
[G] It's going to be amazing.
[D] I want to release songs that mean the world to [Em] people.
I want to always talk to my fans, the people who listen to my music.
That's what I'm most looking forward to.
Dude, having [G] a family too, man.
I'm 26, getting up there.
Probably when I'm 30, 35, freaking settling down somewhere,
[Em] getting to the outskirts.
That's what I'm most looking forward to.
[G]
When I listen to songs, I [F#] want people to know that I'm listening to my music with them.
[E] I'm not playing it for them, I'm listening to [Em] it with them.
I'm making it.
We all make [C] mistakes, and we all try our [G] best,
and we all wake up every day and look for the next [D] thing that means something to us.
[Em] All of us.
[G] [D] Inspires me as [E] an artist.
[C] People in my corner.
Damn.
I can say that [G] not crying here pretty soon.
[D] Oh, shit.
[Em] I think it drives everybody.
Dude, the people you love in your corner, man.
It's like why anyone does anything.
[G] And it's cool.
It's really cool.
[D] Yeah.
[Em] Everyone's living a different life,
and to get to write [C] music for people [G] who are there to enjoy it
is [E] the greatest blessing someone could ever have.
You know?
Quiet on set, please. Amy Pondmark.
Let's do a PSA about reading a book.
Here's how it goes.
I'm really, really excited for you guys to hear American Heartbreak.
When we're done, we're taking it.
Fucking smashed it.
Yes.
I'm proud of you. Yes.
Let's take Jake over here.
Hi.
Hi.
I'm Zach Bryan.
No.
Okay, hold up.
Can I smash the stool?
Yes or no?
It goes on my new album, American Heartbreak, on Spotify now.
Smash it now or later?
I'll give you another one to smash it.
Okay, cool.
Yeah, let's just do one more.
Hi, I'm Zach Bryan.
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Let's roll.
Hey guys, I'm Zach Bryan.
I am Spotify's [Em] newest U.S. radar artist. _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ [Em] _
How do I feel about being a radar artist?
It means the [F#] world.
It really does.
When [G] my managers called me and stuff, we like freaked out.
It was like a huge moment for me to be some redneck from Oklahoma and then be like, hey,
you want to be a part of this [Em] sick thing that Spotify's doing?
I was like, yeah, man, it'd be amazing, you know?
Everyone at Spotify has been [G] good to us, always.
So it's like really, it feels like we're like scratching each other's backs almost.
I'm really blessed.
I'm really thankful.
[Em] _ If I had to define it in 30 seconds, I'd say it was kind of [D] accidentally, you know?
Like, [G] didn't mean to be a musician, you know?
It's really beautiful what happened with just writing songs and stuff.
Because I always wrote [Em] songs being in the Navy, I would come home off a shift and I
would just play the songs, you know?
And then for them to turn into something is [G] more than I could ever ask for. _
_ _ _ [Em] It was like a relief for me for a long time to be in the Navy and get [C] yelled at by all
these old dudes all day.
And me [G] and all the guys would be like, what do we do?
Get away [D] from this.
And we would always get beers and go down to the barracks.
We'd just make [Em] up these stupid [C] songs about everything.
[G] I was always just around people just throwing songs together.
And I was like, this is a cool way [Em] to express yourself.
When we were in the desert, when we were deployed and stuff, we would always go back to the
[G] rooms and just jam out and make videos and [D] stuff.
That's how I started.
That's all I do is just sit in my room and play music and then record [C] it and see what happens.
And that's really important [G] to me.
Because it's a relief from life.
That's why everyone [D] wants to play music or listen to music.
Time to [Em] step away and time to feel something.
It's like that for me too as an artist.
It's cool.
[G] Dude, I just want to write music.
That's all.
[Em] Write and record music is my dream.
Make those songs that [C] you and your grandpa talk [G] about.
Or you and your buddies, I don't know if songs [D] come out and stuff and you text each other
and you're like, do you hear this?
This is insane.
I want [E] to write songs like that.
Touring is cool, but I'm more into the writing and making of good [G] music.
_ The process of making the album, there wasn't one [E] at all.
There are 33 songs and a poem [Em] on the album.
Too many.
At one point I had written the saddest album of all time.
So I just kept writing and kept writing.
[E] When we went into the [G] studio, like Electric Lady, I wanted to go to Electric Lady because
I didn't want it to sound like anything.
And I respect Nashville a lot and I respect all the scenes [E] and people and genres and artists
a lot, [Em] but I didn't want it to sound like anything I'd heard.
So I wanted to go somewhere where country artists [G] or Americana folk artists don't usually go.
[D] And there were a lot of songs on there.
So me and the [Em] guys, the guys that Eddie brought from Nashville, we just sat [G] in the control
room and sang every single [D] one live and just tracked them all.
And it was the [Em] funnest I've ever had in my whole life.
Dude, I remember being in the Navy and trying to [G] produce all this stuff by myself and putting
guitar strings together.
It was like sandbox [Em] mode for a guy like me to be in Electric Lady.
And they're like, hey, what do you want it to sound like?
I'm like, I guess [G] this.
_ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _ [C] If people are going [G] to trust me to be an artist, I want to be [D] trusted to tell the story the
best that I can.
And [Em] all those songs had a place to be told.
You write all your own music and you have to find a place where they all [G] fit together.
That's a really vulnerable place to be.
I wrote something that together is like a whole story.
It was a [Em] bitch to record, I'll tell you that. _
_ What a dream come true, right?
Is to freaking record [G] music with all your boys in a room for a month.
Dude, it was insane.
We would record a song and be so wired that we just kept going.
I [Em] lost my voice like 40 times.
It was cool.
We [E] recorded this song called Heavy Eyes, [Em] song number three on [E] the album.
And we get done recording it and it's the [G] fastest song probably in existence.
Not really, but we recorded it live and it's like hyperspeed on the guitar.
So I was [Em] sweating, drenched in sweat.
And we're playing it as fast as we possibly can.
Eddie, my British producer, is like, hey, mates, you want to go get some [A] ice cream?
And so we all [G] go get ice cream and we're walking through on 8th Street.
Eddie looks at all of us and he goes, I feel like we've died and [F#] went to heaven.
No, [Em] really, look around.
Who would have thought?
We get back to the studio and he's like, let's try it again.
And we recorded Heavy Eyes again, like four times faster, [G] cracking up the entire time.
And we're all just blitzed and tired and we hated our lives.
And it was [Em] probably one of the best memories of my entire life.
_ _ [C] What is most [G] important for me to understand, or for my fans to [D] understand about me and my music?
[Em] I'm a human being, you know?
[C] And I want that experience to be [G] the main driving force of the music [D] itself.
We're all just humans [Em] trying to get through life and enjoy each [C] day together.
I don't know why or [G] where the idea came from that artists are these gods or whatever,
but [Em] we're all just people.
_ [C] _ [G] Goals for the future, huh?
I'm the luckiest [D] guy in the world, don't get me wrong,
but I really want to get a degree [Em] from somewhere,
because no one in my family has one,
and I just want to bucket list it and get [G] a degree.
So I'm going to focus on that in the next few years.
[D] I also want to play shows [Em] that mean a lot to me,
play shows that I want to play and enjoy it with the guys [C] that I play this music with.
[G] It's going to be amazing.
[D] I want to release songs that mean the world to [Em] people.
I want to always talk to my fans, the people who listen to my music.
That's what I'm most looking forward to.
Dude, having [G] a family too, man.
I'm 26, getting up there.
Probably when I'm 30, 35, freaking settling down somewhere,
[Em] getting to the outskirts.
That's what I'm most looking forward to.
_ _ [G] _ _ _
When I listen to songs, I [F#] want people to know that I'm listening to my music with them.
[E] I'm not playing it for them, I'm listening to [Em] it with them.
I'm making it.
We all make [C] mistakes, and we all try our [G] best,
and we all wake up every day and look for the next [D] thing that means something to us.
[Em] All of us. _ _ _
[G] _ _ [D] Inspires me as [E] an artist.
[C] People in my corner.
Damn.
I can say that [G] not crying here pretty soon.
[D] Oh, shit.
[Em] I think it drives everybody.
Dude, the people you love in your corner, man.
It's like why anyone does anything.
[G] And it's cool.
It's really cool.
[D] Yeah.
[Em] Everyone's living a different life,
and to get to write [C] music for people [G] who are there to enjoy it
is [E] the greatest blessing someone could ever have.
You know?
Quiet on set, please. Amy Pondmark.
Let's do a PSA about reading a book.
Here's how it goes.
I'm really, really excited for you guys to hear American Heartbreak.
When we're done, we're taking it.
Fucking smashed it.
Yes.
I'm proud of you. Yes.
Let's take Jake over here.
Hi.
Hi.
I'm Zach Bryan.
No.
Okay, hold up.
_ Can I smash the stool?
Yes or no?
It goes on my new album, American Heartbreak, on Spotify now.
Smash it now or later?
I'll give you another one to smash it.
Okay, cool.
Yeah, let's just do one more.
Hi, I'm Zach Bryan.
Hey guys, I'm Zach Bryan.
I am Spotify's [Em] newest U.S. radar artist. _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ [Em] _
How do I feel about being a radar artist?
It means the [F#] world.
It really does.
When [G] my managers called me and stuff, we like freaked out.
It was like a huge moment for me to be some redneck from Oklahoma and then be like, hey,
you want to be a part of this [Em] sick thing that Spotify's doing?
I was like, yeah, man, it'd be amazing, you know?
Everyone at Spotify has been [G] good to us, always.
So it's like really, it feels like we're like scratching each other's backs almost.
I'm really blessed.
I'm really thankful.
[Em] _ If I had to define it in 30 seconds, I'd say it was kind of [D] accidentally, you know?
Like, [G] didn't mean to be a musician, you know?
It's really beautiful what happened with just writing songs and stuff.
Because I always wrote [Em] songs being in the Navy, I would come home off a shift and I
would just play the songs, you know?
And then for them to turn into something is [G] more than I could ever ask for. _
_ _ _ [Em] It was like a relief for me for a long time to be in the Navy and get [C] yelled at by all
these old dudes all day.
And me [G] and all the guys would be like, what do we do?
Get away [D] from this.
And we would always get beers and go down to the barracks.
We'd just make [Em] up these stupid [C] songs about everything.
[G] I was always just around people just throwing songs together.
And I was like, this is a cool way [Em] to express yourself.
When we were in the desert, when we were deployed and stuff, we would always go back to the
[G] rooms and just jam out and make videos and [D] stuff.
That's how I started.
That's all I do is just sit in my room and play music and then record [C] it and see what happens.
And that's really important [G] to me.
Because it's a relief from life.
That's why everyone [D] wants to play music or listen to music.
Time to [Em] step away and time to feel something.
It's like that for me too as an artist.
It's cool.
[G] Dude, I just want to write music.
That's all.
[Em] Write and record music is my dream.
Make those songs that [C] you and your grandpa talk [G] about.
Or you and your buddies, I don't know if songs [D] come out and stuff and you text each other
and you're like, do you hear this?
This is insane.
I want [E] to write songs like that.
Touring is cool, but I'm more into the writing and making of good [G] music.
_ The process of making the album, there wasn't one [E] at all.
There are 33 songs and a poem [Em] on the album.
Too many.
At one point I had written the saddest album of all time.
So I just kept writing and kept writing.
[E] When we went into the [G] studio, like Electric Lady, I wanted to go to Electric Lady because
I didn't want it to sound like anything.
And I respect Nashville a lot and I respect all the scenes [E] and people and genres and artists
a lot, [Em] but I didn't want it to sound like anything I'd heard.
So I wanted to go somewhere where country artists [G] or Americana folk artists don't usually go.
[D] And there were a lot of songs on there.
So me and the [Em] guys, the guys that Eddie brought from Nashville, we just sat [G] in the control
room and sang every single [D] one live and just tracked them all.
And it was the [Em] funnest I've ever had in my whole life.
Dude, I remember being in the Navy and trying to [G] produce all this stuff by myself and putting
guitar strings together.
It was like sandbox [Em] mode for a guy like me to be in Electric Lady.
And they're like, hey, what do you want it to sound like?
I'm like, I guess [G] this.
_ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _ [C] If people are going [G] to trust me to be an artist, I want to be [D] trusted to tell the story the
best that I can.
And [Em] all those songs had a place to be told.
You write all your own music and you have to find a place where they all [G] fit together.
That's a really vulnerable place to be.
I wrote something that together is like a whole story.
It was a [Em] bitch to record, I'll tell you that. _
_ What a dream come true, right?
Is to freaking record [G] music with all your boys in a room for a month.
Dude, it was insane.
We would record a song and be so wired that we just kept going.
I [Em] lost my voice like 40 times.
It was cool.
We [E] recorded this song called Heavy Eyes, [Em] song number three on [E] the album.
And we get done recording it and it's the [G] fastest song probably in existence.
Not really, but we recorded it live and it's like hyperspeed on the guitar.
So I was [Em] sweating, drenched in sweat.
And we're playing it as fast as we possibly can.
Eddie, my British producer, is like, hey, mates, you want to go get some [A] ice cream?
And so we all [G] go get ice cream and we're walking through on 8th Street.
Eddie looks at all of us and he goes, I feel like we've died and [F#] went to heaven.
No, [Em] really, look around.
Who would have thought?
We get back to the studio and he's like, let's try it again.
And we recorded Heavy Eyes again, like four times faster, [G] cracking up the entire time.
And we're all just blitzed and tired and we hated our lives.
And it was [Em] probably one of the best memories of my entire life.
_ _ [C] What is most [G] important for me to understand, or for my fans to [D] understand about me and my music?
[Em] I'm a human being, you know?
[C] And I want that experience to be [G] the main driving force of the music [D] itself.
We're all just humans [Em] trying to get through life and enjoy each [C] day together.
I don't know why or [G] where the idea came from that artists are these gods or whatever,
but [Em] we're all just people.
_ [C] _ [G] Goals for the future, huh?
I'm the luckiest [D] guy in the world, don't get me wrong,
but I really want to get a degree [Em] from somewhere,
because no one in my family has one,
and I just want to bucket list it and get [G] a degree.
So I'm going to focus on that in the next few years.
[D] I also want to play shows [Em] that mean a lot to me,
play shows that I want to play and enjoy it with the guys [C] that I play this music with.
[G] It's going to be amazing.
[D] I want to release songs that mean the world to [Em] people.
I want to always talk to my fans, the people who listen to my music.
That's what I'm most looking forward to.
Dude, having [G] a family too, man.
I'm 26, getting up there.
Probably when I'm 30, 35, freaking settling down somewhere,
[Em] getting to the outskirts.
That's what I'm most looking forward to.
_ _ [G] _ _ _
When I listen to songs, I [F#] want people to know that I'm listening to my music with them.
[E] I'm not playing it for them, I'm listening to [Em] it with them.
I'm making it.
We all make [C] mistakes, and we all try our [G] best,
and we all wake up every day and look for the next [D] thing that means something to us.
[Em] All of us. _ _ _
[G] _ _ [D] Inspires me as [E] an artist.
[C] People in my corner.
Damn.
I can say that [G] not crying here pretty soon.
[D] Oh, shit.
[Em] I think it drives everybody.
Dude, the people you love in your corner, man.
It's like why anyone does anything.
[G] And it's cool.
It's really cool.
[D] Yeah.
[Em] Everyone's living a different life,
and to get to write [C] music for people [G] who are there to enjoy it
is [E] the greatest blessing someone could ever have.
You know?
Quiet on set, please. Amy Pondmark.
Let's do a PSA about reading a book.
Here's how it goes.
I'm really, really excited for you guys to hear American Heartbreak.
When we're done, we're taking it.
Fucking smashed it.
Yes.
I'm proud of you. Yes.
Let's take Jake over here.
Hi.
Hi.
I'm Zach Bryan.
No.
Okay, hold up.
_ Can I smash the stool?
Yes or no?
It goes on my new album, American Heartbreak, on Spotify now.
Smash it now or later?
I'll give you another one to smash it.
Okay, cool.
Yeah, let's just do one more.
Hi, I'm Zach Bryan.