you were never the martyr you pretended to be and you know
evanescence is one of my favourite bands around and their debut album fallen is so good that i actually went to but it (which is a big deal because $20 was alot of money to me as a school boy) and i never regretted getting that album. dark (bothering on creepy), loud, and an amazing vocalist in amy lee would be how i'd choose to describe the band's sound, but evanescence never reached the heights of fallen ever since ben moody left the band. somehow, i've always felt, the band's follow-up efforts, while decent, were missing an edge, an ommph that made fallen so spectacular.
and so imagine my excitement when i found out that ben moody came up with his solo album and i immediately went to get it. while the tracks were not as hard-hitting as those on fallen there's this indubitable evanescense vibe to them. a little more down tempo, almost alanis morissette-esque, but very very good nonetheless.
this song is titled 10.22, the first single off his all for this album and i'm already liking it, even before really listening to the album.
post today is about music, songs specifically and it was posted with 2 other songs - all or nothing by theory of a dead man, and no surprise by daughtry.
the ideal love song (quite unlike love story which feels to fairtale-ish) and the perfect break-up song.
it has been said that songs are the poetry of today, with a tune (some poems were written to be sung anyway).
the beauty of poetry lies in its subtle yet deliberate presentation of the subject matter, through the poet's chosen style, form, techniques and diction.
each poem is elegant, conveying the poet's thoughts and prose, and in comparison, common prose appears to become cumbersome and crude with the restrictions of grammar and linguistics and its explicitness.
nothing too cryptic about all or nothing but it does tell of a beautiful love story, from the first meeting the lovers ending up tying the knot.
and the notion of all or nothing in a relationship is indeed something to ruminate upon, the idea of giving, and sharing, everything that one has, and is, with another is something not to be taken lightly.
all or nothing means that the relationship is no fling, it has marriage in mind (after all "social norms" dictates that marriage is the 'all' in most relationships - "social norms" is a hotly debated term but that's writing for another post), and even beyond that, it has forever in mind - forever in the most conservative sense of the word - or nothing at all.
you and i will be a tough act to follow but i know in time we'll find this was no surprise
oh and as for no surprise, pretty clear cut here: it's just a break up song that sounds good.