Story
I'm sure this song will bring me some mixed
feedback. This is the first one after I published the Holochaust demo
"Ultimate Metal Trademark". People have really been asking me
for new stuff and because I earlier published the whole 12 songs all at
once people felt that I took more time with this one, even if it took
2 years with the demo! This song is one of my "new era" songs,
like are "Valley of Misery", "Old Enough to Die" and
"My Lovely Babe". These three songs even weren't meant to appear
on U.M.T. but since I had room on the CD, I added them there. And so I'll
do with C.B.T. so I can fill the CD completely with Holochaust, yeah!
I hope people won't expect this to be
like Valley of Misery or whatever, 'cause it ain't. It merely is like
"Old Enough.." or "I Wanna Lie". And that doesn't
describe the song either. I'm gonna make all the different kinds of
songs in the future, in which I'll use different sounding instrument,
different lyrics and singing style. And of course they all are gonna
be individual. There are gonna also be ballads, fast ones, happy ones,
sad ones, and this piece is angry one.
It tells about my personal feelings about
certain kind of people, their abusing and deceiving nature, and self-centered
way of all their opinions. As I said, I'm angry as hell and this is
what you get. Of course I'm not angry with you people, but with some
people I have personally met. It has that feeling on drums, on guitars,
on vocals, and on all-over sound, so that's my anger all the way.
The song was unfinished for a long time
and I'm not sure if it is finished even now. If we ever make record,
this song is probably gonna change the most. I mixed it for a long time,
and every time I was about to put the preview on the net, I made up
something new so that's why it took so long time (actually that has
always been the protocol...). This (the first preview 21.10.1999) could
as well be considered as preview 3 or 4.
The bass guitar is recorded with an electronic
guitar with pitch lowered by one octave. That's because I don't have
a bass guitar, nor do any of my friends. If I someday could record a
proper bass guitar, that would really give the final touch to the song.
The intro is actually the song with ALL my audio effects applied! I
did that for just to experiment and I was like "Wow! How the hell
can it sound like that?!". It kind of fitted so there it is. More
over, I have used a good load of effects to make song sound like it
does. I don't know if my voice sounds different; that's probably due
to me using my throat more than ever. Listen it out loud. I hope it
makes you just a little angry too! But for a good reason.
"Just
a few words before publishing the new one..
..and about the lyrics actually.
It is an angry, heavy song.
I even left it without a solo because
I only wanted to concentrate on the
most important, my opinions,
about the worldand some people in it.
The more
I have related with people,
seen them in television, or in different situations,
the more I'm pissed.
I'm tired of people lying, manipulating,
cheating each other by their self-centered reasons.
More to
the point, I'm tired of people
justifying all of their selfish actions
by their own perspective to the situation.
I'm tired of people not paying
their debt because they always can find
a good reason for not having to.
Of course
they can. It hurts them less. Poor lost children..
Ï'm sick
of people telling me how I should live and
demand me to understand them.
I'm sick'n'tired of people telling me what to do
just because they already know what I'm good at,
and what I WILL do, like for example music to you guys.
What can I say them.. go do it yourself!
I'm tired
of people expressing their superiority by
boasting about their possession, or what they can do,
and at the same time minimize other people
and their world, just because of the
torrential blackness of their own jealousy.
And the
last, I'm furious about people
talking shit behind others backs especially if the
company supposes you to do that.
The
certain percentage of people are shitty
and I'm mad about it !! I'm the damn fair guy myself
but it sure as hell hasn't always helped.
I was calm before but I'm not anymore. It's time for me to
make a little thunder. So there you have it!"
-Tommi
Tiihonen, 5th of October, 1999
Lyrics
"You gotta trust somebody"
Disposal for them all
Supposed of you just to wait for their call
Pretend to be on my side
Suits you when I am blind
Patience to wait so you're just being kind
Return me what I gave you
Show me what there is true
You're far too light to lean
on
I'm easy to abandon
Wake up!
Wake up!
Run, damn it, run towards the light!
"Patience to wait so you're just being kind..."
Two sides of every story
So different all of mine
It's understood 'cause your so selfish kind, oh
(They) all justify their
actions
One friendship dies in vain
The price was high yet too low for my pain
Gently from the sunrise
Evil 'til the moonlight
Slowly pull me under
Be Calm before Thunder
Wake up!
Wake up!
just calm before thunder.. ha-ha-ha-haa
I give and you keep
taking
That's what you can't confess
I.C.C.L. for I couldn't care less, no more
Drained is the source
of mammon
Still rattles empty can:
You're lost like child and too far you have run...
Too far you've run!!
Learn that what I taught you
Fell how it's to be through
(with)
Know that by the moonlight
I'm gone until the sunrise
Trusting and supporting
Lost of all its meaning
Slowly pulled you under
I'm calm before thunder
© 2004 Darcane