Chords for The Interview - for KING & COUNTRY

[C] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ [G] _ _
_ [F] _ [C] _ _ _ Welcome everyone.
I'm [G] Paul Herman, CCLI, [F] here again with Joel and Luke Smallbone [C] from the
band for King & Country.
[F#] Guys, great to [A#] talk to you again.
Yeah, [F] good to be with you, man.
All the way in [C#] Nashville, Tennessee.
All right, [Am] yes.
So the new [Gm] project's coming up.
How long has it been, actually?
Since our last?
Yes.
Well, it's a little deceptive because officially our last [Am] project was [C] four years ago, but in
the middle of this project and that, we released a feature-length film, [F] as [C] well as Priceless,
the song, and a [G] few others.
And so we've [Am] been creatively engaged in [F] the last four years,
but this is our, [G] this fall will [C] be the release of our third studio album.
And [G]
we're almost, almost finished.
[Am] Almost there.
But you've already released
a single, Joy, and the song and [G] the video.
Tell us [Fm] about that.
Yeah.
Well, [B] a [C] couple years ago when we [D] were kind of [G] conjuring up the ideas of what the
new album would be, [C] we were sitting down with a label friend of ours, and he was [G] like, hey,
just tell me, what do you think [C] the kind of synopsis of the album's going to be?
And we
[Dm] said, hey, we feel like there's something [C] about [Gm] Joy, not this kind of Christmas Joy,
not this cookie-cutter [C] Joy, but this [G] Joy that has weight and intentionality [C] behind
it.
And so we went out [Gm] a few months later to write with a friend of ours, [Dm] and [Gm] we were
intrigued to see what he thought.
[F] You know, he's been with us for the whole journey of
music.
We're like, hey, [C] what do you think, you know, this, you know, what's something
we should write about?
What do you foresee for us?
And he's a British [G] man.
He goes, I
just think there's something [F] about this word Joy [Am] that we should write about.
And he said
from his [F] vantage point, he said, look, I have to [Fm] day in, day out, wake up [C] and choose
Joy because when I look at the headlines [G] that are going on in the world, when I look at
social media, I look at all that [Am] I've been bothered with, I've been bothered with a lot
of negativity.
[F] And [G] so I have to actively choose something because if I just [C] allow the feelings
to come, I don't end [G] up usually being joyful.
And so that was kind of the heartbeat and
[F] where the song really came from.
Wow.
[C] Well, I've seen the video [F] and it's incredibly creative.
[C] And between that and seeing your
live show, I always wonder where does [G] that creativity and where's that vision come from?
Oh, it's collaboration [F] all the way.
_ And that's kind of the [G] beauty of it is you can't [C] say,
well, you know, that was one guy, one girl.
Our brother Ben does all of our video work.
He did the film with us.
He did that music [G] video with us for [Cm] Joy.
And so [Gm] there's just
pieces I can look at it and say, well, there's some stuff that Luke came up with.
He came
up with, I came up with and you kind of put it all together.
And honestly, what I love
about the creative process [C] is, and it's good, I think, even as writers and artists to be
reminded of this, [G] you always have to leave [C] room even down to the final moment.
You know,
that was a two day shoot for that music video out in Los Angeles.
And there was a lot [F]
on
the fly that we were like, hey, you know what?
I think it would be better.
So when you get
stuck on the paper or the system or this is the way to do it, I think you lose a certain
edge.
And what was beautiful about that was it was just, it [G] was free.
It was the funnest
music [C] video I think we've ever done.
It was just, you know, the [F] mustaches.
And it showed.
[C] Yeah, we had a great time.
That was definitely by far, we left it down.
Ben, usually we're
working pretty hard with these [N] music videos, but I just had a great time the last couple of days.
[C#] _ So in the videos and in your live [C] shows, I mean, [G] the variety of instruments that you
guys use, you [N] know, the cellos and the horns and xylophones, is there an instrument you
don't like or that you wouldn't use?
You know, it's wonderful.
The triangle.
Yeah, triangle's a little pedestrian. _
_ [C] It was funny that you say that because I [D#] think even on Joy we have a [D] cowbell.
[G] And I remember
thinking when we were putting it on [A] the song, I was like, [F] nobody's ever going to believe
us that we actually put a cowbell [B] on a song because there was a time for [C#] that.
We just
didn't think that [C] time had been brought into [A] today.
Everything comes back [C] around.
Everything kind of comes back around.
It's funny, [Dm] with all of those instruments and [C] things,
Joel's always loved orchestras and the bands [Am] that are [F] almost like high school [C] bands.
The
things that you can do with those instruments are amazing [D] and they're [Am] moving and they're
powerful.
And [B] we've [C] always just thought how cool it would be to interject those types
of [F] sounds into modern music.
And so [C] I guess if it's in an orchestra, then I think we're
willing to potentially pick it up.
Well, you've [G] done it and you've done [Am] it well.
So it's been amazing.
[Dm] Guys, it's always good
to check in with you.
Can't wait [C] to hear the new project.
All the best to you.
Thanks, Paul.
[G] Appreciate you, man.
[Am] And you got [C] a cereal.
Oh, amazing.
Thanks [F] for watching.
[C] Take care. _ _ _