Home Free and Fry Fun

Occasionally, I feel the need to write, what I call, useless ditty's. Here is one I did about Home Free for the Home Fries.

@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

This little ditty I wrote specifically for the Home Fries and how awesome they are!

Written by Michelle Gallardo, Photo by Michelle Gallardo
February 18, 2015

A simple thank you to Tim for inspiring me to start writing again.

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

I entered this in a writing contest on a HF fan page and it won!

How Home Free Inspired Me  written by Michelle Gallardo, March 2015 for a writing contest in a HF fan page

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.

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.