Been a rough couple weeks, or more like couple months or even years, when seen in hindsight... Just took a trip down to visit a bunch of friends down in Oklahoma, and [inevitably] some things have changed. We never really want them to change when we find some place that, to us, through timing or fate, is perceived as "magical" in it's serenity. Wishing it back the way it was doesn't do much, so adjustments are made. Was a long drive, but those always give me time for introspection. I half-assed "finalized" a couple tattoo ideas, and was just contemplating life in general.
As so often happens, a song came on my MP3 player that broke through the hypmotizing effect of the road. Lyrics are here, dark as they seem.

5. Darkness Within - Machine Head ("Unto The Locust" album)

Here in the darkness that I lay
Depression heavy in its weigh
And how my body aches to leave
To sing its final eulogy
My sons I love you evermore
And though the road beckons once more
I see the damage that I've done
In search for redemption
But I am just a broken man
Whose souls cries out to understand
How the madness shatters me
Upon the stage on bended knee
I scream out loud at skies above
That answer mute bereft in love
I struggle not to fall from grace
Or sing the hymns of my disgrace

We build Cathedrals to our pain
Establish monuments to attain
Freedom from all of the scars and the sins
Lest we drown in the darkness within

Mystery's forgotten chords
I strum in vain to please the lord
But he has never answered me
My faith has waned eternally
In empty men who pass along
The woes of all religions wrong
But now the shadowed veil it falls
Heed the Clarion call
So pray to music build a shrine
Listen in these desperate times
Fill your heart with every note
Cherish it and cast afloat
Because god is in these clef and tone
Salvation is found alone
Haunted by its melody
Music it will set you free
Let it set you...

Been a rough couple weeks, or more like couple months or even years, when seen in hindsight... Just took a trip down to visit a bunch of friends down in Oklahoma, and [inevitably] some things have changed. We never really want them to change when we find some place that, to us, through timing or fate, is perceived as "magical" in it's serenity. Wishing it back the way it was doesn't do much, so adjustments are made. Was a long drive, but those always give me time for introspection. I half-assed "finalized" a couple tattoo ideas, and was just contemplating life in general.
As so often happens, a song came on my MP3 player that broke through the hypmotizing effect of the road. Lyrics are here, dark as they seem.

5. Darkness Within - Machine Head ("Unto The Locust" album)

Here in the darkness that I lay
Depression heavy in its weigh
And how my body aches to leave
To sing its final eulogy
My sons I love you evermore
And though the road beckons once more
I see the damage that I've done
In search for redemption
But I am just a broken man
Whose souls cries out to understand
How the madness shatters me
Upon the stage on bended knee
I scream out loud at skies above
That answer mute bereft in love
I struggle not to fall from grace
Or sing the hymns of my disgrace

We build Cathedrals to our pain
Establish monuments to attain
Freedom from all of the scars and the sins
Lest we drown in the darkness within

Mystery's forgotten chords
I strum in vain to please the lord
But he has never answered me
My faith has waned eternally
In empty men who pass along
The woes of all religions wrong
But now the shadowed veil it falls
Heed the Clarion call
So pray to music build a shrine
Listen in these desperate times
Fill your heart with every note
Cherish it and cast afloat
Because god is in these clef and tone
Salvation is found alone
Haunted by its melody
Music it will set you free
Let it set you free

We build Cathedrals to our pain
Establish monuments to attain
Freedom from all of the scars and the sins
Lest we drown in the darkness within

Music my saviour (save me)

We build Cathedrals to our pain
Establish monuments to attain
Freedom from all of the scars and the sins
Lest we drown in the darkness within