Halfway through recording his fifth studio album, Love, War And The Ghost Of Whitey Ford, Everlast lost his creative spark and took a two-month hiatus from the booth. One fateful night during that hiatus, he began playing a guitar melody and sang the lyrics for what would become the album’s unofficial first single, “Letters Home From The Garden Of Stone.” The composition details the mindset of an American soldier fighting in the Middle East and while the songwriter hasn’t experienced that lifestyle, it was as if he were in a hypnotic state.

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