@HomeFreeGuys you are my boys
Love it when you dance and make some noise
Your #CrazyLifeTour was da bomb
Now #FullofCheer, so just Stay Calm
Saw y’all in Nederland, what a rodeo!
And now on social media, y’all are my doe
Play your songs daily, gotta get my fix
‘Cause @HomeFreeGuys music is just plain sick
Now to see what’s up in Twitter and all that
The brow, hips, abs, the beard and the hat!
I think I’ll just go to YouTube, instead
Oh, and watch out for the man in the sled!
So my attempt at urban humor might have failed
But up in here, I have prevailed!
Have an @HomeFreeGuys day, don’t you grumble
Turn up the bass and feel the rumble!
Written by Michelle Gallardo
November 19, 2014
Written by Michelle Gallardo, Photo by Michelle Gallardo
February 18, 2015
Thank you for the Inspiration for Tim Foust
Home Free grabbed my heart last summer when I heard them
sing “Ring of Fire.” They continue to inspire me with simple posts, making
music that can make you laugh and cry and just being themselves. Not to mention
the inspiration I get from their equally amazing fans, the Home Fries. I even
wrote a poem for the Home Fries and how they make me feel every day. So be sure
to look around you, every place you go. There’s something out there that you
feel strongly about, that can inspire you, like Home Free inspired me.
February 18, 2015
Thank you for the Inspiration for Tim Foust
The first
time I heard your song, your voice reached my soul
I can’t explain
the rush I felt when I heard the words you wrote.
Could you
read my mind, see into my heart? You had
control
We might not
ever meet, but I’m touched you’re so devoted
Music gave
me life, kept me at my best
When I sang,
my emotions were expressed.
The beat is
my heart, the words are my depth
Each note has
my blood flowing in its webs
For years, I
let my words show who I was inside
To me, I was
the only one on this roller coaster ride
My music was
heard, but life didn’t comply
Then I heard
your songs, it took me back, I even cried
Words are
filling my head again, I hear them everyday
My singing
dream is gone, but my words can find a way
Your songs
brought me back to the girl I was, yesterday
So Thank you
for the inspiration, is all I wanted to say.
Michelle Gallardo
October 2014
How Home Free
Inspired Me written by Michelle Gallardo, March 2015
How many times have you heard a song that made you cry or saw
an elderly couple holding hands that made you smile or a heard a baby cry that
made you want to comfort that baby? We all get inspired by the simple things in
life that go on around us every day. I started writing at the age of twelve,
when I made some great friends from Germany. When they left, I missed them so
much that poems and songs were racing through my head so fast, some nights I
couldn’t sleep. I stopped writing at some point due to life in general. Recently,
while scrolling in Facebook, I came across this video of “Ring of Fire” by Home
Free. I became fascinated with these guys and their amazing talent. These five
guys can accomplish what other bands, with or without instruments, can’t quite
capture. The perfect combination of talent in Home Free is pure magic. After
watching every video I could find for about a week, I bought their Crazy Life
CD.
When I heard “I’ve Seen,” I stopped what I was doing and
listened to that song about five times. Listening to that song took me back to
when I wrote and sang my own songs. I heard my friend and me singing, and
laughing when we messed up. The words I’d written came into my head, as if I
had just written them yesterday. This song, “I’ve Seen,” brought back all the
rhythmic, poetic words that used to run free in my crazy brain and I began
writing again.
After finding some fellow “Home Fries” online, I slowly
became a part of many Home Free fan pages on Twitter and Facebook. Every person
I came in contact with, was all too happy to share their Home Free experiences.
After Tim Foust favorited a comment of mine in Twitter, I fan-girled for a
short time and decided to get tickets to their concert in Nederland, TX. Nederland has a small town, welcoming
atmosphere, like where I grew up. The concert was, needless to say, spellbinding.
I played it back in mind, for weeks! On the drive back from Nederland, we took
the back roads instead of going through Houston. It was absolutely gorgeous. “Driving
the back roads of Texas, trees as far as I can see.” And there it was, my
inspiration for song lyrics for “Homeward Bound in Texas”
Another song I just love is “Champagne Taste.” Such a guy
song, but very funny! I challenge myself to write things out of my comfort zone
as much as I can. This song inspired me to write a silly song from a man’s
point of view. So again, with a little Home Free inspiration, I wrote song
lyrics about a guy crying in his beer when his girl left him, but what hurt him
more, was she took his truck and his tools. The song is called “Mae.” Mae is
the truck.
The latest inspiration came from Tim and social media. Home
Free had been on “vacation” after Christmas. When the time came, Tim posted a
simple “Back to the studio” in Facebook and Twitter. Once again, his words,
along with some complaining about the weather, inspired me to write song
lyrics. “The Studio” is about an artist going back on the road after a winter
break.
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