Well I looked my demons in the eye
Laid bare my chest said do your best destroy me
See I've been to hell and back so many times
I must admit you kinda bore me
Laid bare my chest said do your best destroy me
See I've been to hell and back so many times
I must admit you kinda bore me
Ray Lamontagne, for me, is one of those random finds that just sort of fell in my lap. Austin City Limits 2006. I was on my way to the main stage, but was pleasantly surprised at what I heard coming from another stage. One of the best gifts is discovering music that you makes you say to yourself, "How did I go so long without this??"
This song, Empty, is by far one of my favorites of his. Its just so fucking good and the lyrics can easily hit a soft spot. The verse above speaks more to me than any other. Everyone goes through moments where you feel like you are just on a downward spiral. Some know those moments all too well, I guess. Just when you feel like things are flowing as they should, a brick wall appears in the middle of the road. At times, its so hard to look at the positive when the negative just slaps you in face repeatedly. The hardest thing to do is not dwell on the negative.
Everyone deals with their demons in different ways. Some just spend time by themselves, some listen to depressing songs, some solve their problems with alcohol. Can't say I haven't chosen all of the above at some point in time. The most some can do is think further down the road. Your time will come when life just collides and everything just fits perfectly.
I'm obviously still on that roadtrip.
Right now, I'm just along for the ride and taking a ridiculous number of pictures. This summer is just a stop in some random town that is full of surprises. All I can do is keep my head up and imagine what is beyond that next turn in the highway. Not all is bad, but at this moment, I would compare things to a little food poisoning from that dirty Taco Bell in the middle of nowhere.
A tad frustrated with things/Starting to miss his friends back home/Having fun here and there,
MH
This song, Empty, is by far one of my favorites of his. Its just so fucking good and the lyrics can easily hit a soft spot. The verse above speaks more to me than any other. Everyone goes through moments where you feel like you are just on a downward spiral. Some know those moments all too well, I guess. Just when you feel like things are flowing as they should, a brick wall appears in the middle of the road. At times, its so hard to look at the positive when the negative just slaps you in face repeatedly. The hardest thing to do is not dwell on the negative.
Everyone deals with their demons in different ways. Some just spend time by themselves, some listen to depressing songs, some solve their problems with alcohol. Can't say I haven't chosen all of the above at some point in time. The most some can do is think further down the road. Your time will come when life just collides and everything just fits perfectly.
I'm obviously still on that roadtrip.
Right now, I'm just along for the ride and taking a ridiculous number of pictures. This summer is just a stop in some random town that is full of surprises. All I can do is keep my head up and imagine what is beyond that next turn in the highway. Not all is bad, but at this moment, I would compare things to a little food poisoning from that dirty Taco Bell in the middle of nowhere.
A tad frustrated with things/Starting to miss his friends back home/Having fun here and there,
MH
P.S. - Recently, I just finished the book Perfect From Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life. It is a very interesting, and often comical, view of the author's (John Sellers) perspective on how music has shaped his life thus far. I recommend it, if you can get past his ungodly long footnotes. I just stopped reading them unless they seemed pretty short.
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