To all the voices and minds throughout the world,

Much like it was in the 60's and 70's when the masses rose up and declared their opposition towards the Vietnam conflict, we are all facing global issues that require a change. From the war in the middle east, to terrorism, global warming, poverty, AIDS, health care, and beyond, our voices and actions, as representatives of this planet, need to find a way to not only reduce, but eliminate the struggles we are all dealing with.

Gore Vidal made a statement that said, "if John Lennon stood for peace, Richard Nixon and George Bush stand for death". Well, Richard Nixon is no longer a relevant issue we need to address, but George Bush and whoever may succeed him in the upcoming election certainly is. Whether you consider yourself a republican, democrat, independent, liberal or conservative, the lies that were fed to not only the American public, but to the world at large, in order to engage multiple nations throughout the planet in conflict over nothing more than the fossil fuels we are rapidly exhausting is disgusting. We can make a change. Each one of us has the power inside ourselves to do something, no matter how insignificant it may seem at the time. Inspire someone, have a discussion about these issues, read the facts from all sides, encourage education and tolerance in our young ones, write a song/poem, write your congressman, post a blog. These are only a few of the vast number of possible things that you can do right now to start making things better.

After the 2004 election came to a close and George Bush was re-elected I wrote a song to inspire change and help people gain awareness. We close with that song at every show. The song is called "Better" and as of today, we are releasing it free of charge to the world. You can download a hi-res MP3 that we encourage you to share with everyone you know from our website, myspace, numberonemusic.com, and anywhere else the people of the world post it. A lyric sheet is available on our website in PDF form as well as on myspace next to the download link.

We hope that you can find it in yourself to become inspired and engage others in a peaceful, non-violent fashion to better understand the issues facing us all, and most importantly work towards a positive change.

Joshua Aaron