Misplaced affection steals my heart
It hides in a delicate looking bush
Quaint and colorful, full of life
Red, white and green envelope my vision
As I creep closer, I am met with a fragrance
One that drives deep into my senses
A passion one cannot hope to contain
It takes me prisoner, and I hardly struggle.
The closer I get as it reels me in
I see what may be needles in the thicket
And as my hand grasps for a flower
I wince in foolish agony.
For I was mistaken at first glance
This bush hides a terror
Far outweighing its splendor
And I recoil, my hope now razed.
Yeah I know this road leads no where
But I cant help myself from hangin on
Yeah the medication daily is a ritual
It numbs so I’ll keep hanging on
This road leads no where, and
I cant help but wonder
Whats waiting on the other side
If it found the path
The path to a luminous life…
It all sounds like a broken record When you say that it’s the distance; No, long distance. Or did we just grow distant? Because I have heard this all before From the mouth of a siren by the shore Dragging me to the frigid depths A last caress, to compliment a final breath.
So, with no explanation from Daryl on this song, I am going to at least add what I took away from it…
It seems a lot of the references in here are aimed at governments and their abilities to lie through their fucking teeth while countless others are victims of practically sanctioned massacres.
It paints an image in my head of the many wars in the middle east, and the civil wars of South America and Africa; where outside influences tend to set-off firestorms (both literally and figuratively) within nations we are claiming to “help”. Just utter chaos with world leaders trying to soften the media blow by making it seem as if it was out of their control.
I could be way off base, and this could just be another hate song towards another hexed lover.
El Mark By GlassJaw
Who the fuck wants to live forever?
Remorse!!!
When you stab me in the back
With your dream.
To keep this body sober
I show my life for all to see..
Do you see me?
Do you see me?!
In a battle the size of my thumb
Always better a fashion show
Than no show at all.
Driving me crazy,
You’re driving me, you’re driving me
You’re driving me crazy,
You’re driving me insane
Be you!
Would it be you?!
And when the runway rovers
Grease back their manes
For our own sake
Do you see me?
Do you see me?
In a battle the size of my thumb
Always better a fashion show
Than no show at all.
Driving me crazy,
You’re driving me, you’re driving me
You’re driving me crazy.
You’re driving me until…
Blue as I write this
You’re marked.
Blue as I write this
Once more
Be you!
Would it be you?!
Be you!
Would it be you?!
Napalm the children
Napalm the children
You’ve got to learn
You’ve got to learn
You won’t believe what you’re not told
You’ve got to feel, what you steal.
Driving me crazy
You’re driving me, you’re driving me
You’re driving me crazy
You driving me into…
Blue as I write this…
For you, Mark.
Blue as I write this
Once more.
Be you!!!
Would it be you?!?!?!
Be you!!!
Would it be you?!?!?!
So here we come to the end of their first album “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence”. This song is half hardcore, and if you stick around to the end, you can hear an added vocal track from Daryl on the piano.
Now, RoadRunner Records were known to add their own shit to GlassJaw’s tracks in an effort to sell more records, but the band didn’t really dig that kind of authority over their work. So that little added bit may have been the devil’s work or hopefully the band intended it to be there because I love it.
This time, Daryl does not elaborate on what the song is about, but I think it is pretty clear he had his heart broken once again by some woman with a chip on her shoulder. My favorite line of all is at the end of the first part of the track before heading into the “hidden track”: “Pack your shit and leave, and take my memories of her with you (I don’t need to know)
The Way it Goes 