Brian Burkheiser has taken to Instagram to share his perspective on his departure announcement from I Prevail last month. In a lengthy Instagram story, Burkheiser echoed the band’s original statement — “There is no beef” — but also revealed that the communication between him and the band wasn’t ideal, saying, “I didn’t deserve how things went down.”

Despite how it ended, Burkheiser expressed a desire to reconnect with his former bandmates and specifically addressed fellow vocalist Eric Vanlerberghe with, “I want to see you. I miss you.” He also talks about low ticket sales on an upcoming I Prevail tour and asks his fans to help sell it out. 

Full transcript and screenshots below.

I will change the music industry forever. There are no rules to this shit. You can be whatever the fuck you wanna be. But if you don’t live your truth, don’t go blaming anyone else. Someone taught me that this week and I have run with that mindset ever since. I had to do this for my family. I couldltm take this anymore. I am meant to be here. I’m just gonna keep posting music till I go to bed. But tomorrow everyone’s gonna wake the fuck up and treat each other kindly. Every single member of I prevail is a good person. 

We were all just kids. None of us knew what the fuck we were doing. It all happened so fast. There is no beef. I love every single one of those guys whether they know it or not. But yeah, shit did get though along the way and I do think that I didn’t deserve how things went down. But it doesn’t mean they are bad people. We’re all just going thru shit. Everyone is trying to feed the family. The only thing I will say. Is that I did try to communicate more and I wish that they would’ve talked to me more. But if it took it coming down to this to teach the world this lesson then I’m OK with that because I want to rekindle my friendships with those guys one day. 

Whether you know it or not, I am proud of you Eric [Vanlerberghe | I Prevail: unclean vocals]. You wnt through a lot of things the world doesn’t know about. I want to see you I miss you. 
Maybe I fucked up tonight. Honestly, I have really no idea what I’ve done.. but I’m just trying to be as vulnerable as I can be. I’m trying to prove to the world that any relationship can be mended. I guess I’m trying to have my ‘My Name is Earl’ moment. I had no idea all of the stuff was going to happen in two days ago. I had no idea that I was going to post Instagram stories. But I mentally broke. The truth is this shit has had me so mentally unwell for so long.

If anybody goes and talk shit to I prevail their show today I will be so upset. You better give them the best fucking show of their lives.

Also, I love every single member of the I Prevail crew. Those guys work their fucking asses off. Today I want all of you guys to please give them a big ass round of applause for everything they did for me over the 10 years in the band. 

I’ll be honest, I had a falling out with the dudes. A lot of things happened over 210 years and I’m sure they have different perspectives on certain things. But this shit does happen in life, divorces happen. But divorces normally happen due to lack of communication. I think we both could’ve improved on that over the course of time as we got bigger and bigger. I just want all of us to go on and live our lives. I want all of our families to be happy. I I love all of their significant others and children. Let’s just do the shit guys. Let’s all change the industry and show everybody that we can get past it. Maybe it took our band to show the world that relationships are fucking hard and the music industry is even harder. 

Please go sell this tour out. There are so many fucking amazing bands on this. The truth is it’s not selling great because it’s an amphitheaters. But these bands deserve to be treated like fucking pop stars. If I had one last wish before I turned into scatterbrain, it would be that you guys sell this out for me and make sure every single one of those bands goes and blows up. Dave Shapiro was I prevails manager. Dom Mackie is a good person. He co-managed with Dave. Dom was one of my best friends and I haven’t talked to him in a long time. I know it would take a hell of a lot of burden off of him if you guys sold this tour out.