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I showered, shaved, and got my work clothes on
I hit the road like a marathon.
I was five minutes from the parking lot
when I hit a traffic jam and everything stopped.I turned on the Country station I love
and asked for help from the man above.
While I was thinking of what I would say
the DJ told me it was Saturday.
Oh, come on!Oh my! What did I do to deserve this mess?
Oh God Why? I heard a voice that said, "Guess!"I finally started back home that day
and I hit the liquor store on the way.
A little old lady in a great big boat,
she cut me off and my bottle broke.She was doing twenty in a fifty zone.
Well I got pulled over just a mile from home.
He said he smelled the whiskey in my truck
that I was speeding and was out of luck.
Oh, Come on!Oh my! What did I do to deserve this mess?
Oh God why? I heard a voice that said, "Guess!"I was leaning on my ride and waiting for cuffs
I turned around when the boat pulled up.
The little old lady, well, she said to the cop,
"Now listen son, now you'd better stop"."No son of mine's going to act this way
For all you know he might have had a bad day".
Well, he shook my hand and then he kissed his mom.
He speed away with his lights back on.

Oh my! Do I really deserve this mess?
Oh God why? I heard a voice that said, "Yes!"

One of the hardest questions anyone can ask me is, "What kind of music do you write?"

While I was writing Patriot, I pretty much avoided listening to music. I didn't want to be influenced in any way by what other artists might be doing. After I released it, several people told me they thought a lot of the music on "Patriot" sounded like Country so once I turned the radio back on, I started listening to Country as well. One thing that stuck out was the optimism and comedy in modern Country pieces you don't get in Rock & Roll, so I decided to try writing one myself for the local Country Station.

The main riff kind of popped out of another piece I was working on at the time, and the arrangement wrote itself. I remember drinking beer on my porch alone one beautiful summer afternoon, laughing out loud as I wrote these whacky lyrics for myself. Both my wife and Gene laughed too when I showed it to them, so I finished it. Gene's lead and backing vocals make all the difference in giving it that modern sound we were trying for, and I shiver to think what the song would sound like without him.

The funny thing is that many of Country fans I wrote Bad Day for, don't think it sounds like Country at all: proof that I still can't answer that question.

Matt Fitzgibbons