To download this free track (320 kbps MP3), right click & choose (save as): http://bit.ly/05_Low
You planted seeds of doubt
Then watched them grow
And then when trouble sprouts you act
Like you don't know
Low, way low, way low down
Is where I go
Low, way low, way low down
Is where I go
I've got a pretty smile
And my eyes glow
But sometimes I cannot deny
It's all for show
I've got it figured out
But I don't know
And when it all comes crashing down
I guess I go
Low, way low, way low down
Is where I go
Low, way low, way low down
Is where I go
The devil's advocate, a saying that I've come to loathe. People sway you with negativity, and lead you astray, down a spiral towards death. And once you're there, it's like they never meant to send you tumbling down, into an abyss of self pity brought on by constant negative reinforcement.
The saddest part is, when you truly sink the lowest, those around you don't even know. People go on with their lives like nothing is wrong, when inside they are screaming. Whenever it seems like you've gained an inch, then you get knocked back ten yards.
Depression is a battle raging on all around us. When you least expect it, the enemy strikes, and you're caught off guard, taken captive by fear. You can prepare all you want, but you're always vulnerable, and nothing can stop you from sinking.
This is the daily struggle some of us go through, and we just survive. It's all we can do, when we are taken all the way to the bottom.
But that's just it, isn't it? We survive. Somehow we climb our way up from the bottom. And we continue on. There's always hope, but there's always another devil's advocate. Don't let them take you down.
Download the last 4 weeks songs (320 kbps MP3), right click & choose (save as):
01 We Burn http://bit.ly/01_We_Burn
02 Aesthetics http://bit.ly/02_Aesthetics
03 Phoenix http://bit.ly/03_Phoenix
04 Silent Cries http://bit.ly/04_Silent_Cries
Remember, each Tuesday for the next 7 weeks we'll be releasing another track, blog, & music video until October 25th. Check back each week or join our mailing list to get these tracks in your inbox. Thank you so much for your continued support!
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
"Silent Cries" - Track 4 off The Tank by The War I Survived
To download this free track (320 kbps MP3), right click & choose (save as): http://bit.ly/04_Silent_Cries
You have your documents
We have our common sense
You have your own pretext
We have our arguments
You say it's our defense
To live behind a fence
May I remind you you broke our lives
Silent cries and violent wars
Human nature takes its course
You have a bias tongue
And all the songs you've sung
Have all been meaningless
They gave our souls no rest
And now you want us to
Believe that what you do
Will give the whole world a better life
Silent cries and violent wars
Human nature takes its course
Silent cries and no remorse
Silent cries and violent wars
For this song, this is where the album gets a little political, and we express our frustration with the current state of affairs in our nation. I like to think of our government as a computer that needs defragmentation. The common folk live their lives with simplicity, yet are represented by people who spew a constant stream of complex lies. A web that has us all trapped, as we lie in wait to be devoured. The elite think it's for our own good to keep us chasing a false American dream of debt up to our eyeballs, and to keep us afraid of everything in the world, so that we are easier to control. The further the gap between the classes, the more the masses will go unheard.
This song is a simple warning before the storm, a siren in the wind, a call from a distance. Our voices are faint, but with all of them together in the end, we can overcome anything. Let the cycle of renewel be once more. There is a revolution happening in the world, and what our high society elite fails to see, is that they are as much guilty, and in danger as any foreign dictator. When the people are suffering and they ignore our cries, that in the end will be their demise.
Remember, each Tuesday for the next 8 weeks we'll be releasing another track, blog, & music video until October 25th. Check back each week or join our mailing list to get these tracks in your inbox. Thank you so much for your continued support!
You have your documents
We have our common sense
You have your own pretext
We have our arguments
You say it's our defense
To live behind a fence
May I remind you you broke our lives
Silent cries and violent wars
Human nature takes its course
You have a bias tongue
And all the songs you've sung
Have all been meaningless
They gave our souls no rest
And now you want us to
Believe that what you do
Will give the whole world a better life
Silent cries and violent wars
Human nature takes its course
Silent cries and no remorse
Silent cries and violent wars
For this song, this is where the album gets a little political, and we express our frustration with the current state of affairs in our nation. I like to think of our government as a computer that needs defragmentation. The common folk live their lives with simplicity, yet are represented by people who spew a constant stream of complex lies. A web that has us all trapped, as we lie in wait to be devoured. The elite think it's for our own good to keep us chasing a false American dream of debt up to our eyeballs, and to keep us afraid of everything in the world, so that we are easier to control. The further the gap between the classes, the more the masses will go unheard.
This song is a simple warning before the storm, a siren in the wind, a call from a distance. Our voices are faint, but with all of them together in the end, we can overcome anything. Let the cycle of renewel be once more. There is a revolution happening in the world, and what our high society elite fails to see, is that they are as much guilty, and in danger as any foreign dictator. When the people are suffering and they ignore our cries, that in the end will be their demise.
Remember, each Tuesday for the next 8 weeks we'll be releasing another track, blog, & music video until October 25th. Check back each week or join our mailing list to get these tracks in your inbox. Thank you so much for your continued support!
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
"Phoenix" - Track 3 off The Tank by The War I Survived
To download this free track (320 kbps MP3), right click & choose (save as): http://bit.ly/03_Phoenix
Rise from the ashes
After we burn
Same old reactions
We never learn
Bridges we set on fire with words that we say
Rivers we drown in when we get in over our heads
I can't say this is what I planned
Or make this easy to understand
I reach for the stars with my hand
I fell short again
The tongue can be our own worst enemy. We forge fires with slander, and heap bundles of kindling on the burning mess with rumors, and fan the flames further with lies and deceit. We can try to learn from our mistakes, but it would seem that most of us are doomed to repeat them. All of this starts, as we try to get ahead in life, but take the wrong path to get there.
When I was eighteen, I moved to Phoenix. This was the start of a new journey for me. I had dropped out of school, partied hard, watched my parents split, had seen death, and all its fearsome glory. When I came back to Iowa a year later, I rose from the ashes of my old life, and started down the new road that would lead me here.
When this song first sparked in my head, I was stuck watching a great friend of mine dig a hole in his life that I knew he would never fully be able to get out of. In fact, this was another musician, and our final show at the pinnacle of our mutual music career, was in Phoenix. It was in our hotel that weekend that I began to jot down the first lines of this song, and fiddle with the riffs, that would become the song "Phoenix".
The song is simple, yet complex. It's the process of constantly striving for more, but ending up with less, the doomed fate of the ones who never learn from their mistakes, and end up starting from scratch, over and over. The ones who say too much, when they should say little. They never intend to lose control, but for whatever their intentions are, their lives spiral down, until they are drowning in a whirlpool of mistakes, and broken promises.
You can keep reaching for the same things that drove you to this point, trying to fulfill unreal expectations, or you can start again. Get your life back, and start on your new path. Rise from the ashes.
I hope you will read this and think about where you are, and where you could be. And I'm not talking about physical locations here; I'm talking about your life. I'm talking about the death, and rebirth of your spirit. The renewal of things that once were, or could have been. Rise from ashes, after we burn the relationships in our life that got us to where we are. It might not be what you wanted, or easy, but everything happens for a reason.
Remember, each Tuesday for the next 9 weeks we'll be releasing another track, blog, & music video until October 25th. Check back each week or join our mailing list to get these tracks in your inbox. Thank you so much for your continued support!
Rise from the ashes
After we burn
Same old reactions
We never learn
Bridges we set on fire with words that we say
Rivers we drown in when we get in over our heads
I can't say this is what I planned
Or make this easy to understand
I reach for the stars with my hand
I fell short again
The tongue can be our own worst enemy. We forge fires with slander, and heap bundles of kindling on the burning mess with rumors, and fan the flames further with lies and deceit. We can try to learn from our mistakes, but it would seem that most of us are doomed to repeat them. All of this starts, as we try to get ahead in life, but take the wrong path to get there.
When I was eighteen, I moved to Phoenix. This was the start of a new journey for me. I had dropped out of school, partied hard, watched my parents split, had seen death, and all its fearsome glory. When I came back to Iowa a year later, I rose from the ashes of my old life, and started down the new road that would lead me here.
When this song first sparked in my head, I was stuck watching a great friend of mine dig a hole in his life that I knew he would never fully be able to get out of. In fact, this was another musician, and our final show at the pinnacle of our mutual music career, was in Phoenix. It was in our hotel that weekend that I began to jot down the first lines of this song, and fiddle with the riffs, that would become the song "Phoenix".
The song is simple, yet complex. It's the process of constantly striving for more, but ending up with less, the doomed fate of the ones who never learn from their mistakes, and end up starting from scratch, over and over. The ones who say too much, when they should say little. They never intend to lose control, but for whatever their intentions are, their lives spiral down, until they are drowning in a whirlpool of mistakes, and broken promises.
You can keep reaching for the same things that drove you to this point, trying to fulfill unreal expectations, or you can start again. Get your life back, and start on your new path. Rise from the ashes.
I hope you will read this and think about where you are, and where you could be. And I'm not talking about physical locations here; I'm talking about your life. I'm talking about the death, and rebirth of your spirit. The renewal of things that once were, or could have been. Rise from ashes, after we burn the relationships in our life that got us to where we are. It might not be what you wanted, or easy, but everything happens for a reason.
Remember, each Tuesday for the next 9 weeks we'll be releasing another track, blog, & music video until October 25th. Check back each week or join our mailing list to get these tracks in your inbox. Thank you so much for your continued support!
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
"Aesthetics" - Track 2 off The Tank by The War I Survived
To download this free track (320 kbps MP3), right click & choose (save as):
http://bit.ly/02_Aesthetics
If you feel like getting out
Get out
If you feel like breaking down
Break down
If you feel like you're alright tonight
Don't forget that you're on borrowed time tonight
Don't you get it why we close our eyes?
You're so aesthetic that it lulls our minds
Do you feel like it's enough enough?
Do you feel like you got it rough?
So rough
Do you feel like you're in touch?
A touch
Do you know why you're in such a rush to lush?
Don't you get it why we close our eyes
You're so aesthetic that it lulls our minds
Wake up and smile now
You don't get it
It's so poetic
I fall in love with your vacant eyes
I don't want to get stuck in this hole
I don't want to get stuck in this hole
Let's take a second and think about that last line. How many of you have said that same thing about your life, job, hometown, or relationship? If you answered yes, then let's go back to the beginning, and figure this out.
In last weeks writing, we talked about passing trials and tribulations. You need to make a decision, and stick with it. But, make haste, for we have little precious time in this world to make something happen in our lives that will inspire others. Do not get caught up in what's trending now. Close your eyes, and focus on your dreams, and do not let the hollow, meaningless things of this world put you into a shallow, translucent state, where you are held back by an uncertain fog, a haze of fear that clouds the once certain purpose you had in this life. Once you are taken captive by something shiny and beautiful by this world’s standards, you are forever malcontent, always needing more to satisfy, more, and more, until the final rest is upon you.
This is why we close our eyes, and set our sights on something greater than this world has to offer. Otherwise, we are put to sleep, strung out, and weary from the race to fill our lives with as many things as we can, that we think will bring us happiness.
We try to wake up, but we can't. We've fallen in love with the empty promises, and shiny things of this world, and we've dug our final resting place. But there is always hope, that maybe, just maybe... someday we will wake up, and rejoice, and be lifted out of our holes we've dug ourselves into. Every place is what you make of it, and you decide whether this place is a hole you are in, or whole with you in it.
Remember, each Tuesday for the next 10 weeks we'll be releasing another track, blog, & music video until October 25th. Check back each week or join our mailing list to get these tracks in your inbox. Thank you so much for your continued support!
http://bit.ly/02_Aesthetics
If you feel like getting out
Get out
If you feel like breaking down
Break down
If you feel like you're alright tonight
Don't forget that you're on borrowed time tonight
Don't you get it why we close our eyes?
You're so aesthetic that it lulls our minds
Do you feel like it's enough enough?
Do you feel like you got it rough?
So rough
Do you feel like you're in touch?
A touch
Do you know why you're in such a rush to lush?
Don't you get it why we close our eyes
You're so aesthetic that it lulls our minds
Wake up and smile now
You don't get it
It's so poetic
I fall in love with your vacant eyes
I don't want to get stuck in this hole
I don't want to get stuck in this hole
Let's take a second and think about that last line. How many of you have said that same thing about your life, job, hometown, or relationship? If you answered yes, then let's go back to the beginning, and figure this out.
In last weeks writing, we talked about passing trials and tribulations. You need to make a decision, and stick with it. But, make haste, for we have little precious time in this world to make something happen in our lives that will inspire others. Do not get caught up in what's trending now. Close your eyes, and focus on your dreams, and do not let the hollow, meaningless things of this world put you into a shallow, translucent state, where you are held back by an uncertain fog, a haze of fear that clouds the once certain purpose you had in this life. Once you are taken captive by something shiny and beautiful by this world’s standards, you are forever malcontent, always needing more to satisfy, more, and more, until the final rest is upon you.
This is why we close our eyes, and set our sights on something greater than this world has to offer. Otherwise, we are put to sleep, strung out, and weary from the race to fill our lives with as many things as we can, that we think will bring us happiness.
We try to wake up, but we can't. We've fallen in love with the empty promises, and shiny things of this world, and we've dug our final resting place. But there is always hope, that maybe, just maybe... someday we will wake up, and rejoice, and be lifted out of our holes we've dug ourselves into. Every place is what you make of it, and you decide whether this place is a hole you are in, or whole with you in it.
Remember, each Tuesday for the next 10 weeks we'll be releasing another track, blog, & music video until October 25th. Check back each week or join our mailing list to get these tracks in your inbox. Thank you so much for your continued support!
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
"We Burn" - Track 1 off The Tank by The War I Survived
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http://bit.ly/01_We_Burn
Patience lost, tempers rise
We built these walls to keep this quiet
We burn
Fears and whispers spread like fire
They get out and they run wild
We Burn
We burn
We're all burned and we're all tired
We've lost our homes and our desires
We burn
Our minds are tender, can we decide
There is hope through the fire
We burn
We burn
Take me now
This is the beginning of the album. We are tested through many trials and tribulations in our lives, and this becomes a refining fire that tests our very soul, and let's our true nature boil to the surface. This is the beginning of your journey, and sets the tone for your story, your entire being. This is your life.
The song starts at the early stage of the adult mind, when we start letting our fears guide us into a retreat, and we wall ourselves off from others in an attempt to make a safe haven. Once those barriers go up, the communication breaks down, and this is when the hypothetical argument in our head, the fears and whispers, the paranoia that runs rampant through our daily thoughts, guides us further into a bitter retreat. This leads to the next stage.
When we are caught up in our retreat from that hypothetical enemy leading you away from where you imagined yourself as a child, and your taken further down the hole, you give up. You are defeated, and taken away from everything you wanted in life. It is in this moment that you get to make a decision. Hope or despair. You can keep retreating, or you can fight your way back. There is hope, that in these trials and tribulations, you were equipped with something that you didn't even realize. A special gift, something that makes you different from everyone else in the world, and allows you to share your experience with others. You are a rare gem, formed by the fire of every experience you've had, good or bad.
The last, and most important part. This is what happens next, after you've decided to fight back, to not give up, and after you've reached all your goals. What do you do? You get to lay it all down. You get to give all that you are, and have become for your brothers and sisters around you. There is no greater love, than lying down your life for your friends. For this, I am ready, take me now.
This has been an in-depth look into the first track of "The Tank", We Burn.
Remember, each Tuesday for the next 11 weeks we'll be releasing another track, blog, & music video until October 25th. Check back each week or join our mailing list to get these tracks in your inbox. Thank you so much for your continued support!
http://bit.ly/01_We_Burn
Patience lost, tempers rise
We built these walls to keep this quiet
We burn
Fears and whispers spread like fire
They get out and they run wild
We Burn
We burn
We're all burned and we're all tired
We've lost our homes and our desires
We burn
Our minds are tender, can we decide
There is hope through the fire
We burn
We burn
Take me now
This is the beginning of the album. We are tested through many trials and tribulations in our lives, and this becomes a refining fire that tests our very soul, and let's our true nature boil to the surface. This is the beginning of your journey, and sets the tone for your story, your entire being. This is your life.
The song starts at the early stage of the adult mind, when we start letting our fears guide us into a retreat, and we wall ourselves off from others in an attempt to make a safe haven. Once those barriers go up, the communication breaks down, and this is when the hypothetical argument in our head, the fears and whispers, the paranoia that runs rampant through our daily thoughts, guides us further into a bitter retreat. This leads to the next stage.
When we are caught up in our retreat from that hypothetical enemy leading you away from where you imagined yourself as a child, and your taken further down the hole, you give up. You are defeated, and taken away from everything you wanted in life. It is in this moment that you get to make a decision. Hope or despair. You can keep retreating, or you can fight your way back. There is hope, that in these trials and tribulations, you were equipped with something that you didn't even realize. A special gift, something that makes you different from everyone else in the world, and allows you to share your experience with others. You are a rare gem, formed by the fire of every experience you've had, good or bad.
The last, and most important part. This is what happens next, after you've decided to fight back, to not give up, and after you've reached all your goals. What do you do? You get to lay it all down. You get to give all that you are, and have become for your brothers and sisters around you. There is no greater love, than lying down your life for your friends. For this, I am ready, take me now.
This has been an in-depth look into the first track of "The Tank", We Burn.
Remember, each Tuesday for the next 11 weeks we'll be releasing another track, blog, & music video until October 25th. Check back each week or join our mailing list to get these tracks in your inbox. Thank you so much for your continued support!
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
The Plan
So, here is the plan. The War I Survived will release their upcoming album in two phases, overlapping each other, and playing out like a series of events hitting the digital universe in wave after wave of unrelenting audio assault. Phase one begins now, right now! Yes, you can go listen to our first single streaming on our website http://www.thewarisurvived.com, and you can be sure we will be pushing it to radio everywhere we can in the Midwest. We will also be distributing the album to reviewers, internet bloggers, anyone with a pair of ears, and a willingness to contribute in anyway to this momentous occasion.
On to phase two. This is a more personal touch, one with great meaning to us as a band, and as musicians. We plan to share this album, our debut album "The Tank", in a manner that is well defined, and intimate with each of our friends, fans, brothers, and sisters. Beginning Tuesday, August 16th, the waves of "The Tank" will begin reverberating through our universe, and expanding each Tuesday after, until the final release date, October 25th. What does this mean exactly you ask? Expect a fully disclosed release of each track on the album, including in-depth lyrical analysis, music video, and most importantly, a free download. This will start with the first track on the album, and continue each week, one track every Tuesday for eleven weeks. Yes, this album goes to eleven! Again, all this is building towards our epic release date on October 25th, when "The Tank" will be available on the internet, and on physical CD.
In closing I would like to thank everyone who has helped us on this journey, and been patient with us as we work towards the release of this album. This has been a major labor of love, and that's why we do this, because we love it.
The War I Survived.
On to phase two. This is a more personal touch, one with great meaning to us as a band, and as musicians. We plan to share this album, our debut album "The Tank", in a manner that is well defined, and intimate with each of our friends, fans, brothers, and sisters. Beginning Tuesday, August 16th, the waves of "The Tank" will begin reverberating through our universe, and expanding each Tuesday after, until the final release date, October 25th. What does this mean exactly you ask? Expect a fully disclosed release of each track on the album, including in-depth lyrical analysis, music video, and most importantly, a free download. This will start with the first track on the album, and continue each week, one track every Tuesday for eleven weeks. Yes, this album goes to eleven! Again, all this is building towards our epic release date on October 25th, when "The Tank" will be available on the internet, and on physical CD.
In closing I would like to thank everyone who has helped us on this journey, and been patient with us as we work towards the release of this album. This has been a major labor of love, and that's why we do this, because we love it.
The War I Survived.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Constellations
I can remember looking out the window, from the backseat of our vehicle, up at the night sky when I was a boy. Satellites tearing across the sky, and dreams starting to fill the horizon. There was music happening all around me. Everything was spinning towards a future filled with music, and boundless adventure, and the soundtrack of our lives was just starting to take shape, a grand theme to our great adventure was starting to play out.
The events of one's life, sometimes can't help but feel like it's culminating to the events that will define your very being. Your memories becoming like stars in the night sky, the brightest ones becoming a constellation representing your entire being. The music was building the entire time, while you have been traveling further down the highway, and late one night you see them all gather, and you're hearing the climax, and everything is as it was meant to be.
I find myself in the band van these past few weeks, that little boy all grown up, the heavens in their place, and us in our place. I look up at those constellations after a fantastic night of rocking, and I see the direction that we're heading towards.
As we navigate towards our future bearing, I hope your gaze is drawn to the horizon, as ours was, and you begin to see the stars, and hear the sounds that have captured our imagination. Hopefully, after the climax, we will all be resting comfortably together.
The events of one's life, sometimes can't help but feel like it's culminating to the events that will define your very being. Your memories becoming like stars in the night sky, the brightest ones becoming a constellation representing your entire being. The music was building the entire time, while you have been traveling further down the highway, and late one night you see them all gather, and you're hearing the climax, and everything is as it was meant to be.
I find myself in the band van these past few weeks, that little boy all grown up, the heavens in their place, and us in our place. I look up at those constellations after a fantastic night of rocking, and I see the direction that we're heading towards.
As we navigate towards our future bearing, I hope your gaze is drawn to the horizon, as ours was, and you begin to see the stars, and hear the sounds that have captured our imagination. Hopefully, after the climax, we will all be resting comfortably together.
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