this song truce is kinda diving into my more mellow side of songwriting which i actually have experience you know ive been in the mellow side of songwriting for a long time and i really enjoy it its just never felt like there was a place for it on this album other than towards the end of the cd it kind of shows my maturity as a songwriter you know when you have as many options as you want you know when i sit down at the keyboard i have any optioni can make the song do this i can turn it into this and a lot of times one of the first things that you learn as a songwriter and as a programmer is patience being able to just dial things back and dont throw too many things into the pot obviously you could look at the album and be like yeah you didnt do a good job of that you know im sorry but the song truce is cool cause its just me and the piano i remember when i was talking to my producer about what we wanted the piano to sound like he put it best he said you know i want the piano to sound kind of distant like its behind several layer of curtains or something and so we kind of got a sound that kinda a little bit eerie and not too in your face just to kinda give the vocals thatthe room to really say what it is that theyre trying to say and truce is one of those songs that i just wanted to tell people hang in there you know theres someone out there who does know what youre going through i know that theres a lot of bands that say they want to use music to help people and i know a lot of that might be full of crap but if someone is encouraged at all by the music that i write then my whole life will be justified so i mean i would be crazy not to try so this song is called truce and it closes out the album appropriately i think 