From the album New Years Project
Lyrics
Virtue cast aside with empty chances
Serving genocide to the bustling masses
Ants of people ride coattails while making passes
Just to get a dime spared from any
This mountain of a ladder climbs above delinquent crosses
As you raise your control
Pushing aesthetic of desired effect
I’m so sorry I have nothing to offer
Myopic, still caring for keeping score
Fetching food for those holding your hopes above your –
Head now stuck on those who hum the tune to make you –
Facilitate the bargaining to
Work twice as hard for half the recoup
A shallow place to rest your head and wait for progress
Cutting the tether that breaks my neck breaking your fall
A cloak and dagger killing spree
Color draining from me
A can of gray to coat this town
Too soon to turn around
Not planning to live past these white-out conditions
Not speaking your mind even as I race you to the top
Tease extinction promoting desecration
Seeking emancipation from the depths of a brooding sky
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This song was a fun one to write. The pre-chorus riff holds a special place in my heart – it rocked me so hard I broke a guitar playing it. I had bought a cheap guitar at a pawnshop that I thought would be a pretty decent backup guitar, and I’d come up with that riff, and just knowing that we were all going to go NUTS when we were playing it live. So here I was, in my apartment in Ames, IA, jumping all over the place and rocking out playing on my little 15 watt practice amp like a complete nerd. I jumped up in the air with the guitar in one piece, and came down with it in two pieces, holding the neck in my left hand and the body of the guitar swinging around. It sucked about the guitar, as I’d had it all of 3 weeks or something, but the riff was worth it. I’d held onto the main riff because I thought it sucked and no one would like it but I ended up noodling in practice and started playing the riff and everyone was really digging it. Axel had this super awesome chorus that we tagged on, but we were stuck – how do we get from the chorus back to the main riff? Brendon came up with a super amazing idea – we’d play the main riff up a half step coming out of the chorus, and as the main riff descends at the end, keep the descent going down to the original riff. We tried it out and our minds were blown. Axel is responsible for most of the ending – I’m a big fan of his super thrashy riffs here.
