Take me anywhere you're going, because I've lost the only path I've ever found.

Watch your dreams get crushed like cookie crumbs

While night my chase was left of you around

I was born down the road

From the place I put this pen to paper now

The ground beneath gave it on me, I found I'm Sarah Kensier, the author of the best-selling book, The View from Flyover Country, and hiding in plain sight.

I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the

journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide, famine in Ukraine.

And this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United States and rising

autocracy around the world.

The song you just heard was Home by Via Skies.

Via Skies is the musical vision of singer-songwriter Jeff Gonzalez and producer songwriter Chad Cousin.

After years of recording, touring with bands and moved to Chicago,

Jeff returned to his hometown of Mesa, Arizona, where he released his solo, EP, The Lights Just Went Out.

With the help of a musician's wanted ad, Jeff met Chad, who had been producing music for several years in the area.

The disguised formed gradually in Mesa with the duo recording at Chad's Red Room Studio, combining the soft alt-country notes of Jeff's previous solo work and Chad's textual style

and music production, they are currently working to complete their debut album slated for release in 2022.

From Jeff, he provided this artistic statement. Home was one of those songs that shot out

of me like a canon. All of the ideas came to me quickly. It felt like an epiphany. I wrote it as I was

finally starting to realize what truly matters. I spent my late teens and 20s touring in bands,

finding creative ways to be self-destructive, I suppose this song is,

at least in part, about finding what and who is important to you and truly valuing them.

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