""It was my favorite song back then, but I didn't really know what it meant," he told Brooklyn Paper. "And now going back to and listening to 'Losing Myself,' I'm like, I knew that was my favorite song on the album, but I wasn't really sure why. It's about not really knowing what you're going to get into, but you're going to lose yourself in the moment.""
""We attract what we're ready for" - has stayed with DiScanio since the song's release. Fans often ask him to write it out so they can turn it into a tattoo, carrying the lyric with them wherever they go. "I almost want to get one, too," he laughed. "I think I have to." Since the release of "Around the World and Back," State Champs have certainly attracted plenty."
"Revisiting the album's 11 songs, he said they feel more personal now than they did a decade ago. "It's so funny," he said. "I wrote a lot of those lyrics with no real intention, and without knowing what it was going to mean to me. Ten years later, some of them mean more to me than they did when I wrote them in the first place. It was a prequel to life. It was like foreshadowing.""
Derek DiScanio reevaluated the 2015 album's songs and found deeper, more personal meanings in lyrics written with little initial intention. The lyric 'We attract what we're ready for' became a recurring motif that fans often tattoo. The band grew from basement beginnings to global sold-out shows and now headlines Brooklyn Paramount during a limited-run anniversary tour for Around the World and Back. The eight-show run focuses on sharing the present with long-time fans and revisiting eleven songs that feel like prequels or foreshadowing to life events that followed the album's release.
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