| Flashbulb Memory – Not Some Phony Symphony Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song basically sums up exactly how I feel about what we are doing. Playing music. Two years ago, I picked up a bass and taught myself some bass line from a tablature book. My brother saw my faint interest and tried to teach me more. Too lazy to attempt to learn anything (something that still applies today) I refused to listen and gave up. Two months later, I got a guitar for Christmas. I didn't want it. I may have even hated it. I didn't even appreciate it until I moved in with Duncan. Much like the little kid watching from the alley in Michael Jackson's video, "Smooth Criminal", Duncan and Jay taught me everything I know about music. How appropriate that I am playing with them now. Every time I pick up my guitar (well, Jay's guitar) I instantly feel energy--whether or not we are at practice or sitting around the house, practicing on acoustic. Let's be honest, I know for a fact that I couldn't go a day without music, and I know the same applies for everyone else in the band. And I would hope that it applies to everyone else. Everyone who appreciates music as more than something that you listen to on the way to work. A powerful energy that we have created from words, music, and ideas, that we can pass to anybody. It's a form of communication, just like me talking to you. It's an extension of our lives, and what matters the most to us. And right now, what matters to us the most is doing what we are doing. ROCK! -Branch My short contribution to this song follows some of Branch's ideas. To me, my music is an expression of everything that surrounds me. The way someone moves their body or the way cars drive on the street has its own rhythm. Sounds that you hear everyday: someone's voice, birds, insects, traffic, footsteps--each is its own form of music. We simply act as a translator to channel these things--which cannot be commercialized or made into any form other than what it is--sound. -Jeff |
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| Flashbulb Memory – all them crazies out there Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Human beings have reached a point in time where the common person has become an enemy. The down side of this is that we are reluctant to help out someone that seems to be in danger because of what psychologists have dubbed, "The Kitty Genovese Syndrome." This basically means that humans tend to avoid an emergency because of 1. previous experience 2. risk of physical injury, or 3. avoiding legal consequences. While not everyone is, understandably, in the position to perform CPR or pull someone from a crashed car, it is truly sad when humans can see someone in dire need and not make any attempt to even call for help. Kitty Genovese was a 28 year old woman that was attacked outside her Long Island Home around 3:20 a.m. The attacker stabbed her, ran away, and then returned three more times to stab her again between 3:20 and 3:50. Genovese yelled toward open apartment windows many times that she had been stabbed and that she was dying. Police later reported that at least 38 people had witnessed at least one of the attacks, yet no phone call to the police was made until 3:50, after Genovese was already dead. The police later said, "If we had been called when he first attacked, this woman might not be dead now." I feel that this story speaks for itself. -Jeff |
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| Flashbulb Memory – here's that word again Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think that of all the things in life that keep us going, as in the things that let us sleep at night with the knowledge that our day hasn't been a complete waste, that creativity ranks as one of the more significant. Our class system is such that the majority of our country will work full-time jobs until the day that they retire at age 65, too old to take full advantage of their bodies and probably too tired to tackle any major intellectual projects. This lifestyle is the "coffin" that this song talks about. It seems sometimes that the only way out of this early grave is to constantly be creative to constantly surround yourself with projects that inspire you, challenge you, and that you enjoy. I think that as a person I tend to gravitate towards other people that understand the importance of this idea. They also understand that it's not so much the need to leave a trail of symphonies, masterpieces, or cathedrals behind you, but rather it's much more important to always have new and fresh forms of expression because you truly believe that you live to create and create to live. And, in some extreme cases, I do use the word "live" as opposed to "die," but mostly I use the word to mean to continue in opposition to all the people and systems that want to make your life boring. Those creative and inspiring friends that I mention are the (here's that word again) inspiration for this song. My most memorable moments so far in this short lifetime are typically those when I have been a part of something creative with my friends and we end up amazing ourselves. What the hell did we just do? Jeff, member of FM. |
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| Flashbulb Memory – lazilywelay Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is not an ode to "carpe diem" yadda, yadda, yadda. This is not a song about activism, quitting your job, or becoming jaded as you grow older. This is more of a song about being personally active, breaking out of your dimly lit apartment monotony and doing something as oppsed to nothing. We all have things we have to do, we all have to pay bills or go to school or go to work or even something as simple as getting our cars inspected or doing the dishes. And it is too easy to fall into making a to-do list everyday and looking at them, shaking your head and thinking "Why do I have to do this stuff?" Being personally responsible involves doing things that you don't want to do, and some of us may choose to do these things and some of us may not. Some of us may just decide to not do them (as I have many a time in my day) and just sit on our beds and put them off. But the rest of us are drowning in it. In the end, this song is really about those times when these things saturate your entire existence and it makes you sleepy/apathetic/lazy. But it never has to be that way. It is the things that we do that we love outweighing the things that bring us down which gets us stoked. This song is a signal to break out of all this. -Branch, member of FM. |
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| Flashbulb Memory – Empty Promise Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Do you ever feel like certain aspects of your life are out of your hands? This song is about chasing your dreams despite the obstacles that must be overcome along the way. It is about subverting social "norms" in the pursuit of a true happiness that money can't buy and you that won't see on TV. It is about rejecting the notion that we must forfeit our dreams, our happiness, to satisfy social expectations; that we must commodify ourselves to be successful; that our value or self worth is determined by financial success and how we look on paper. It is about rejecting the notion that materialism equals happiness; that we can be pacified, that our dissent can be squelched. It is about the dissident energy that resides in all of us that begs us to take control of our lives rather than be subservient to a system. Is life worth living just for the sake of living? -Duncan, member of Flashbulb Memory. |
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| Sinaloa – With Our Ears to The Soil Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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from their website: throughout the course of our lives we inhabit many different places...places we often feel comfortable enough to call a home. we pass through these places, sometimes staying for months, other times for years. and while living there we make our own personal marks along the way. we share our settlements with others, and share our lives with one another.there are many houses that i look back as defining points in my life. changes took place, laughter arose, tears were shed, lessons learned, secrets shared, embraces exchanged, and then we move on as simple as that. sometimes we revisit these places, through pictures and stories, and we hold them dear to our heart. we keep in touch with some of our old roomates, some we hold close like brothers and sisters, others fall to the wayside. either way, these places play parts in all of our lives, change the way we live and view things. |
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