Songwriter Benjamin Tod didn’t have a particular time or event in mind when he sat down to write Lost Dog Street Band’s new single, “If You Leave Me Now,” a neon-lit reflection on consequence and love. “It came to be from a lifetime of bad decisions and I overcame the last few years,” remembers Tod.
“Don’t go punching mirrors / You may find more than what you bargained left behind,” he sings in the song’s first verse. “The opening line refers to the fact that anytime we lose self control and thrash objects around us, what’s left behind is much worse than the original problem.”