Be Good

In an Instagram post, Roseburg’s frontman Zach Knell shared:

"I don’t quite know how to write what I am feeling right now. I am so emotional about this release. This song is for the kid out there right now who just wants to be good, but who feels life deeply—who struggles with their anxieties, insecurity, self-doubt, loneliness, crisis of faith in God, difficult relationships, worry about their future, the conflicting opinions in the world that send them into a spiral—The Righteous Punk who is scared out of their mind.

About a year ago I was on a plane to Orange County, as I was trying to begin my career in music. It was a dark time in my life. I had been feeling miserable most days for the whole year previous. Every day I was basically living in fear of everything around me. Fear that there is no God and life is pointless. Fear of not being able to accomplish the things I’ve dreamed of. Fear of death. Fear of all the noise and conflicting opinions in the world. But I just didn’t get why I had to feel that way when my whole life I’ve really just tried to be a good guy and do what’s right. Basically, on this particular plane ride, I had my first full blown panic attack. I was sweating, I was sick, I wanted my life to just be over. And it was literally on that flight that I wrote down on a paper the lyrics."