All the Clever Words on Pages: A Portrait of My Friendship with Aaron Weiss of mewithoutYou

by Paul Matthew Harrison

Aaron Weiss--the eccentric frontman of the eclectic indie rock band mewithoutYou--is revealed here through a decade of friendship with the author, Paul Harrison. Set to the backdrop of mewithoutYou emerging from the post-hardcore scene in 2000 and signing with Tooth & Nail records, this book follows Aaron's spiritual life through its many incarnations. In a state of breakdown and disillusionment with this life and his faith, Paul found Aaron at Cornerstone Festival in 2005. Aaron invited Paul to live with him in Philadelphia that Christmas, starting what would become a lifelong friendship. Recounted here is a year-by-year account of their spiritual conversations, philosophical and religious ponderings on belief and doubt, books they traded and discussed, and the affection, affirmation, support, and love they shared over a decade through continual struggle, loss, and change. Part spiritual memoir, part portrait of Aaron Weiss, and part band biography of mewithoutYou, this is a classic example of the power of music to change lives and of lyricists to become gurus, even if reluctant ones.

This book is not a biography about Aaron--it's bigger than that. It serves as a memoir of the inherent difficulties in navigating the complicated landscape of faith, music, relationships, and morality. Whether you came to this book as a fan of mewithoutYou, or out of love and curiosity about Aaron Weiss, or are a person who has lived through similar struggles with belief and doubt like me and Paul, you'll love this book.

-- Matthew Putman (Eso-Charis, Living Sacrifice, Snailhuntr, Unwed Sailor, Lovedrug, Bear Colony, Chase Pagan)

I'm looking forward to denying the validity of everything you wrote. Edward Said said the difference between representation and misrepresentation is a matter of degree . . . not do we get it wrong, but how wrong?

-- Aaron Weiss (The Operation, mewithoutYou)

Genres: Nonfiction, Music

546 pages, Paperback

Published July 15, 2016

Reviews

[David Daugherty · Rating 5 out of 5]

If mewithoutYou has garnered an underground following, it is thanks in no small part to the poetic lyrical stylings of frontman Aaron Weiss. His lyrics weave a tapestry of philosophy and emotion that serves to draw the listener in, and perhaps even change lives. Paul Harrison - suicidal, heart-broken, and full of doubt in a true “dark night of the soul” moment - was one of those erstwhile lives touched by Weiss’ writing, and this first moment of connection through the medium of music becomes the impetus that propels an emotionally impactful narrative of meandering lives seemingly destined (by God, fate, or blind idiotic universal coincidence) to intertwine.

But that’s about a quarter of the way through Paul’s hefty 500-plus page tome, which actually begins like a history lesson in a slice of time all too familiar to many of mewithoutYou’s fans: the rise of Christian rock and roll, and the subsequent commercialization of a belief system. Like a true historian, Harrison presents the reader with a mosaic of interview snippets, magazine articles, and quotes from the individuals involved to take us from the hippies for Jesus movements of the 1960s through the Christian punk-rocker scene and the rise of such monumental forces like Tooth and Nail Records and the Cornerstone Festival. But even after getting a crash course in a now almost forgotten era of recent genre conventions, we are only just getting started.

Into this odd world where headbanging and shredding guitar solos leading to salvific altar calls are the norm enter our two protagonists, Paul and Aaron. One is a man determined to follow Divine prophecy to the love of his life, no matter the cost. The other is just tasting success with a strange new band called mewithoutYou.

The narrative continues from there, alternating between band history of mewithoutYou, told from the perspective of the artists themselves (specifically Aaron) through the use of patchwork interview excerpts. Harrison truly proves himself to be the arbiter of mewithoutYou’s legacy, whether he intends to hold that title or not. Long forgotten interviews and journal entries from all eras of the band’s now fourteen odd year history are pieced together like an intricate jigsaw puzzle that paints a seamless narrative of a group of friends in over their heads (and sometimes at odds with each other) navigating the tumultuous world of “Christian rock” while their enigmatic lead singer swings back and forth in public opinion from punk rock spiritual guru, to garbage eating autistic savant.

But the heart of the narrative is not to be found in this framing device, but in the life of Paul Harrison that is the memoir’s primary focus. Paul tells his story in an open, honest, frustrated, and self-deprecatory manner that give’s one the sensation you’ve met an old friend to catch up over coffee and cigarettes at an all-night diner after a decade apart. And of course the first thing he would say in this instance is, “Man, I have been through some SHIT.” Paul’s country-spanning story of grief, doubt, and life-threatening existential crisis is an emotional souler-coaster of the highest order. Even the most die-hard mewithoutYou aficionado might find himself, as I often did, rushing through chapters detailing the lyrical themes on an album to see what lies just around the river bend for Paul, be it crushing heartbreak, suicidal despair, or a reunification with the loves for which he longs, be they God or girl.

As the book progresses, a portrait soon emerges of a friendship between two men that seem to be truly closer than brothers. Tracking a decade of traded emails, spontaneous reunions, saving graces, and philosophical debate between Aaron and Paul, All the Clever Words on Pages is at once a spiritual memoir, a band biography, a philosophical examination of our relationship to music, and a story about the absolutely literal life-saving power of one who would, to quote the bible, “lay down his life for a friend”.

For the fan or Christian rock from the early 2000s there is plenty to love here. Sprinkled throughout are cameos by would-be celebrities in this underground scene that would soon, and unbeknownst to the author at the time, become quasi-legends; whether it is attending a dive-bar concert of a no-name metal band called Underoath or going into a dubious business agreement with an unknown slam-poet named Bradley Hathaway. Easter eggs for the studious mewithoutYou superfan can be found just as readily, with chapters entitled “Alone to the Alone” or “All Our Dad’s Die”, or even “Dumpster Diving (Pt. 2)”. If such a fan endeavors to know what it would be like to dig through slime in a Trader Joe’s dumpster with Aaron Weiss, or be there with him just after he has found out his father has passed, or even just to sit exhausted in some dusty corner of a venue in Chicago, silent and melancholy with a decade of friendship behind you both, then it can be found here in spades. If the analytical fan among you is looking for insight into Aaron’s powerful lyrics, this is the place to come as well. You might find out why the line, “Nearby to where my dad sat in his favorite chair, thinking about the gov't and muttering a prayer” gives this reviewer a somber chill now.

In conclusion, buy this book. Let Paul tell you his story. Let him introduce you to his friend Aaron, who you probably only think you know from listening to him sing. You will not go away without a stripe on your heart for all of the doubts, and loves, and true friendships (and the doubters, lovers, and friends that propel them on) that unify us all as human beings in this impermanent period of time called our lives.

Also, you will get to read about your favorite introspective and soft-spoken spiritual guru rock star utter profound statements like, ‘Oh yeah? When was the last time you were caught jerking off to a picture of a sunset?” Truly profound.

[Alanna Schwartz · Rating 5 out of 5]

This semi-autobiography explores the coming to and deconstruction of Christian Faith as experienced by the author and his good friend Aaron Weiss of the band mewithoutYou. I have loved mewithoutYou for a decade now, and was excited to learn more about Aaron’s life, but this book did a lot more for me than that. This book made me feel known in my weird trauma stemming from Christian community, and in my desire to continue seeking More. Paul Harrison is a talented and honest writer, and his transparency about depression, Christianity, lust, divorce, and the Christian hardcore scene were so captivating throughout.

[Elina T.C.]

Oh boy! I read the warnings and the sources used for this book, but here I am years later, actually having read it. Oh boy. Not gonna say a lot, since I know a lot has been said already, but ... hmmm. I hope Paul has found peace and finally understood the poetry and philosophy he and Aaron talked so much about. Love to Aaron, a singular human being deserving of whatever praise he's ever received. Gracious in every way, including allowing this book to be published

[Tegan T · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is not a good book. But I really, really liked it. Often, I think, out of a kind of voyeurism -- Harrison's story in places acquires the same sort of appeal as those recounted on Reddit where deeply damaged persons air their bizarre personal problems in exchange for the online cheers of a mob of people who have collectively turned getting-divorced into a hobby.

I read this book because I think mwY is probably the greatest rock band of living memory, and ranks among the best since rock's beginning. Beyond rock, beyond even music -- mwY's series of 7 LPs (and let's throw in the [untitled] EP as well) is one of the most interesting postmodern art projects I've encountered. Incredibly sophisticated stuff. I saw them live on their farewell tour (Roxian Theater in Pittsburgh) and had a near-religious experience in the mosh pit. Easily the best concert I've ever been to. They're phenomenally talented. Aaron Weiss is a brilliant lyricist and poet, and by all accounts that I've heard, and especially as this book relays, just a pretty good dude on top of that. It is still not clear to me why he gained the guru status he apparently had in the early aughts, but he undoubtedly has a really special mind. But this book is not really about Aaron Weiss. It's the memoir of one Paul Harrison, in which Aaron plays a more-than-incidental, but not exactly central, role.

I don't want to rag too hard on the guy, because he clearly has a lot of struggles, and he's done something brave (though probably otherwise inadvisable) in writing about them. But Harrison just really weirded me out. He's reading Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky to sustain his "Christian" (I put this in scare quotes, not because I question the sincerity of his intermittent identification with Christianity, but because it's just not clear to me at all that the species of American charismatic church Harrison takes as the paradigmatic expression of Christianity has much to do with the religion that goes by that name in any other context) mysticism through his 20s, and then as a 30+ year old, becomes an atheist because of Richard Dawkins and co. I cannot imagine being an adult -- let alone a 30-year-old who supposedly loves literature and philosophy -- and taking the New Atheists seriously. Not that one can't reasonably be a atheist (of course one can), but... the New Atheists? Come on. Those guys write at the level of moderately bright 14-year-olds.

Harrison is weirdly obsessed with sex as well. Maybe a hangover from his teenage charismaticism?

The book looks long but the print and spacing are abnormally large. I read it in two or three nights, with another shorter memoir in the mix. Recommended if you're interested in the art-rock project that is mwY (which you should be) or if you're curious about 1990s American charismatic Christianity (which I didn't think I was, but boy am I after reading this!).

[Kim Tee Em · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have loved mewithoutYou since high school when I first heard catch for us the foxes and a passion was ignited. I have followed their journey from a distance as i have eagerly awaited each new album over the past 12 years. Reading this story was like reliving and remembering the past and seeing intersections with my own experiences and memories of the band. What s joy!
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It's a great insight into the pain and suffering we all experience, especially that of the author who perhaps shares a bit too much of his personal suffering.
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I really loved this book for selfish reasons, knowing more about Aaron, but the more I read the more I wanted to give both men (Aaron and Paul) some privacy to live their life and struggles not so publicly.
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Totally recommend for any fans or people who experienced the Christian alternative music scene in the early 2000s.

[Natasha Onoshko · Rating 4 out of 5]

A philosopher once said that in order to derive all wisdom of the world you don’t necessarily have to read all books ever written by humankind – it’s sufficient to read one and infer everything else out of it. Well, if you had to select one book to infer all knowledge about relationships, you could have easily chosen this one. It teaches you what to do and what to avoid when it comes to building relationships with people, whether platonic or romantic, and illustrates it with pretty graphic descriptive examples.

The book plot simultaneously follows two lines of narrative: in the first one, the author tells the story of his long and soulful friendship with Aaron Weiss of mewithoutYou. The second storyline is devoted to his less fortunate relationships with other people – mostly the ones of the opposite gender.

The author’s friendship with Aaron Weiss is a genuinely beautiful thing, at least the way it’s portrayed in the book. A decade-long relationship based on soulful conversations and intellectual discussions of philosophy and religion, ideas of Sartre and Kierkegaard, or... whatever else you expect someone with a PhD in Philosophy to talk about. It’s quite entertaining to read their correspondence full of great humour, as well as intellectual references, philosophical ideas, and their application to seemingly banal matters of the everyday life. This is a great, sustainable relationship.

On the contrary, the storyline following author’s romantic endeavours portrays relationships based on nothing else but fiction and cloud castles. Dreams, fantasies, ecstatic contemplations of ideas of fate or soulmates, and the ill-fated projection of these fictitious products of imagination on imperfect reality. In other words, the author finds himself trapped in a loop of relationships that follow the same pattern, and include everything apart from the key attributes: shared values, interests or any sort of intellectual affinity. No wonder all his relationships fall apart as soon as ephemeral feelings wear off and the charm of novelty fades out.

Therefore, if there was one lesson for the author to learn from all his past experiences, it’s that neither feelings nor emotions can be solely sufficient to constitute a stable ground for interpersonal relations, either romantic or platonic. What has a bigger impact is the tangible things that you actually have in common: such as shared interests, common values and a similar intellectual background. You cannot build a decade-long relationship on the basis of artifice, fiction and a short-lived wave of serotonin. The book clearly shows that this is neither realistic nor unsustainable.

Anyway, what we can say about the author for sure is that he has truly mastered the skill of framing chaotic events of his life into a coherent narrative, which all comes together into a beautiful and consistent storyline with an open, yet hopeful ending. And what else do we need in order to call our life meaningful, if not a coherent narrative overarching and running through our entire biography?

On a negative note: minus one star for the misspelling of Nietzsche’s first name. This is not something to forgive easily.

[Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely love this book. It is self published, yet it is well put together and doesn't have the roughness of many self published books.

This books is powerful and meaningful not just for fans of mewithoutYou but for anyone who is wrestling with big questions about beauty, truth, meaning, God, community. With an endearing honesty and self searching it raises many questions that folks in an evangelical culture might wrestle with. It is a book that documents a very specific and important movement of religion, ideas, and Christian culture (even if mewithoutYou is not explicitly a Christian band).

Many fans of mewithoutYou might be familiar with Paul Matthew Harrison's wonderful archive and videos of mewithoutYou going back some time. What I love about this is the ability for Harrison to shine in ways that are beyond him being a fan of mewithoutYou. This is not really a book about Aaron Weiss. It's not really a book about mewithoutYou. It's a book about being a fan and being in relationship with a fan community and a band you like a lot. In this way, we can get away from the objective pretense of music journalism that try to document a band. It also isn't a band's memoir.

Harrison gives us something that I think is more universal than a book about Aaron Weiss. I think it is for anyone looking for answers today. It is about how a writer like Harrison interacts with a writer like Weiss. I get that Aaron Weiss is cool and all that and that might attract folks to this book. Yet I think this book is bigger than that.

If you want a biography of mewithoutYou. That isn't what this book is. This isn't "Our Band Could Be Your Life."

This is a book not about fandom, but about what it means to connect with your soul to art. Don't worry, Aaron Weiss, Mike, Rickie, Beav, Greg etc all appear in this book. but this book is the best thing I could ask for. It is just people writing about people. We all have bands we like a lot. this book is the best book I could ask for about a band I like. Because it is honest and by a humble fan.

This is an important book. It is great not just for fans of mewithoutYou. It is about being a human being stumbling and triumphing in the world. And yeah Harrison's favorite band becomes involved in that story. But it is really just well written. Harrison is a gifted writer. I hope more folks can read this book.

If you want a story of Aaron Weiss though, this isn't that and you'll be disappointed. But this is another book and a good one at that.

I think this book as is revelatory and meaningful. Perhaps it could be edited to be a bit more concise to make it more consumable and less niche. But I mean lots of good authors are like that. I haven't reviewed books a lot, but I wanted to review this one.

[Adam Rea · Rating 3 out of 5]

No one is doubting that Aaron Weiss would be hard pressed to write anything resembling an autobiography, and his aloofness makes any attempt by those close to him to chronicle his progression from enigmatic, heartbroken young frontman to spiritual guru to whatever you classify him now as unfortunately incomplete. And Paul's recollection of his encounters with the man behind the poetry here are admittedly incomplete, with some gaps in Aaron's life riddled throughout. We don't always get much more than the interviews that the band's followers eat up, but Paul does some handy editing of the various interviews out there to put different topics in context with the same topic in another interview to give us a more full picture of the man. Probably the best captures we have of Aaron are different encounters with him in person, either at shows or during visits, but those are few or quick mostly, leaving us with raw email exchanges mostly.

Nevertheless, I feel like I understood Aaron better through reading this book and really enjoyed the discussions around the ways his spiritual views have grown and changed and the way the band has morphed over the years, so in that it is a victory. I have trouble recommending it beyond hardcore fans of mewithoutYou though, because of length and because of Paul himself. I kept fighting with myself whether I loved the level of detail found in the book or hated it, and I guess it depended upon the detail in question. That said I think Paul would benefit greatly from a good editor to figure out what those good details are and take out lots of the rest. This should most definitely not be an almost 600 page book.

Now Paul probably has his reasons for the amount of detail about his personal life that is here, but to me parts of it weren't engaging to me personally and came across as self defeating and awkward. Like reading through someone's diary a little too closely. I did enjoy much of his spiritual journey though, especially when it was juxtaposed against Aaron's, leading to some interesting discussions, but the long list of girl troubles grew tiresome and probably belonged in a different book. I understand that some of this was relevant to give context to discussions with Aaron, but it could have been condensed greatly.

For better or worse, this is probably the best we're going to get of chronicling Aaron's life and faith journey over the years. It has its flaws, for sure, but it also had many moments of clarity into the mind of someone who many of us have spent years wishing we could get to know better, but we'll settle for this and let Aaron have some privacy for some of the rest.

[Garrett Mikulka · Rating 3 out of 5]

I debated a two-star review, but thought that may be unfair since my problem with the book was my own expectation, and since so many reviewers found what I disliked to be very enjoyable, who am I to say it’s not good in its own right?

This turned out to be a few things, not all of which I cared about. History of the band and a play-by-play of Aaron’s journey through life was what I was hoping for, and it was there. I gained a lot of context to help make sense of some things in their music, and I got to see a lot more of Aaron’s long-form thought. I greatly enjoyed these parts, especially Aaron’s private wit, which only rarely comes out in lyrics and even then not as snarkily as it does in an e-mail to a close friend.

Much of the book, however, was purely memoir of the author without relation to Aaron Weiss at all, except for the moments when he recounts life events to Aaron via e-mail. Overall, I found the personal narrative somewhat exhausting as I wasn’t looking for a detailed look at failed relationships. To the author’s credit, though, the epilogue did a surprisingly good job of wrapping both ends of this book up at once.

I’m glad I read this book; I got out of it what I wanted. I would be hesitant to recommend it though.

[Kenji · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found that this book is not only about Aaron Weiss of mewithoutYou but also about mental illness, trying to not kill yourself, the Christian counterculture to the mainstream Christian subulture of the 90s/00s, seeking the divine, and loosing your faith in God. This book sucked me in right away, but that could just be because all of these topics are of great interest to me. Chances are if you are the kind of person who loves mewithoutYou you will probably love this book.

At the beginning of the book, I started realizing this was more of an autobiography of Paul Harrison than it was a biography of Aaron Weiss. As I made progress in the book, I found Paul's life so interesting and engaging that I didn't mind at all that it was mostly about him. By the end of the book I realized that seeing Aaron through Paul's eyes over a 10-year period painted a more intimate picture of Aaron than other biography formats could have.
Overall, the tagline summarizes the book perfectly. It is a portrait of Paul Harris's friendship with Aaron Weiss.
Most chapters are short. It felt much faster than a 500+ page book. It can be really emotionally heavy at times. Maybe most of the time.

[Rob Jones · Rating 4 out of 5]

Everyone was trying to figure out Aaron Weiss, even Aaron.

“I don’t recognize my views in what he says I believe.”

“I’m not happy. I don’t want people to be like I am. I don’t want people to want to kill themselves. I don’t want people to feel like they’re lying every day when they look at other people.”

“Somebody’s gotta say this isn’t alright. We can’t keep doing this because it’s not making anybody happy.”

I remember thinking, “God, even though sometimes I don’t believe in you, one thing is certain - I will never believe in myself.”

Contentment exists.

I asked how he was doing. “Too well. When things are going this well, you know there’s nowhere to go but down.”

“In the end, if you are wrong, you won’t even know it. It can’t hurt.”

Of course I know what you mean about the good fortune of having a routine, daily responsibilities to keep us from drowning in thought. What good would it do anyone, drowning in thought?

One day the water’s gonna wash it away and on that day, nothing clever to say.

[Andrew Spann · Rating 4 out of 5]

MWY is my favorite band, and as such I was thrilled to pick up this look into Aaron's views on spirituality. Overall I thought it was a great read, but there were some detractors that came up along the way. Paul uses his own personal life to propel Aaron's evolution over time and to an extent it works, however, there are times where you feel you are reading more about Paul's own struggles and story over that of Aaron's. I should add that Paul's story is fascinating in its own rite, but it just wasn't necessarily what I anticipated when I ordered the book.

I walked away having learned more about one of my musical heroes and ready to check out part two a little later down the road. I would recommend for any MWY fan or anyone raised in the Tooth & Nail era of youth group culture.

[Crystal Hurd · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easily one of the best books that I have read this year. His early spiritual struggles are similar to my own (minus the desire for a nomadic lifestyle). Aaron Weiss is a genius of our time, and I don't say this lightly. I'm not a fan of oversentimental hagiography or fawning hyperbole but Weiss's journey to abandon a rigid adherence to orthodoxy and just *LOVE PEOPLE* is so refreshing and resonant. This book is neither hagiography nor hyperbole. It is a chronicle of our generation coming to terms with flawed theology and reconciling the contradictions we grew up with. The sequel will be here tomorrow. ☺️

[Michael Shields · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book took awhile for me to actually start enjoying it. The first 150 pages or so are so frustrating that I was actually yelling “dude, just go see a psychiatrist!” It’s a mixed bag of the authors personal life, how Aaron Weiss entered it, and how they remained friends and the extent of their friendship. By the end of the book, I felt entirely connected to the author in a way that I absolutely would not have expected to feel during the first quarter of the book. At times it reads like a collage of interviews from band members taken from different magazines and blogs with no real substantial context provided by the author, but for the most part, the book did exactly what it was supposed to do: provide a window into the mind of Aaron Weiss. Definitely recommend but go into it with the understanding that this is written about someone else’s life and how Aaron impacted it, and not a memoir of Aaron himself.

[Steven Berkenkemper · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you follow the band, or even are vaguely familiar with early 2000s alternative christian music- you will want to read this book.

If you’re looking for a great way to get into your friends favorite band but you can’t stand the screaming- this is for you.

The author takes the opportunity to essentially make the book a biography for both himself and Aaron Weiss. But I would do the same and it adds context to everything.

Do it.

[Kirby Whitehead · Rating 4 out of 5]

All the feels

An interesting intersection of lives during an interesting age, and all the misadventure, heartbreak, and confusion of all those times pretty thoroughly documented. I recommend if you grew up in the era of cornerstone and have wrestled with paralyzing existential angst...

[Russell Patrick · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you’re a fan of MWY & want some backstory on them as a band, this can be a good read. However, it really feels just as much about the author & his christian faith as it does about Aaron Weiss. It’s been awhile since I read it but I believe it finishes just after the release of Pale Horses. Someone of it can be uncomfortable, with things you might not want to know about Aaron. Just a heads up.

[Josiah Triplehorn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Aaron Weiss has always been such a fascinating figure to me and I love his vocals and lyrics. It was so fun to get an inside look into his life from someone who knew him so well over the years. Paul does a great job of capturing Aaron’s evolving world-view, unique perspectives, and refreshing approach to life. I definitely recommend this one!

[Alan Myers · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great insight into both Arrons mental space and that of Paul.

[Dan Berkenkemper · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you are a huge mewithoutyou fan and love learning more about the band, or meaning behind Aaron’s lyrics, it’s a great book for that.

[Sam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Having grown up listening to MewithoutYou and attending several of their concerts I immediately jumped on the chance to read a biographical account of Aaron's life over the past few decades. A large portion of this book is transcribed interviews from (mostly) Aaron and other band members over the years. This tended to feel tedious at times having already delved into these interviews online. Also be prepared to learn a great deal of intimate details about the author's relationships and psychological struggles. Though, for the most part, the author's life is eventually tied back to Aaron's through emails and other encounters. All in all I am glad to have read this book and I was able to get a better glimpse into Aaron's life through the eyes of author Paul Harrison.

[G.D. Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great look into Aaron Weiss, mewithoutYou, and the author. Occasional typos and inconsistencies litter the book, but the overall themes and insights hold true. I would recommend for those who, like I, have spent years poring over the band's lyrics and wondered who Aaron is. If you have not done so, the book may be tedious and, ultimately, worthless. Regardless, I am glad to have read it and reconnected with the early 2000s youth group culture, many questions I've struggled with throughout my life, and my favorite songwriter.

[Jeremy Britten · Rating 5 out of 5]

Confirming Aaron's place as one of the best lyricists of his time. Paul did a great job chronicling their time together and lending insight into Aaron's spiritual mindset and journey.