"And final there's we are the few. yet again a number of songs mushed into one long ass tune. The verses deal with a certain place I hold dear to my heart and how it feels to visit such a place when you're older and , well, not so innocent anymore. for the record i no longer wish one of us would pass away, it was an excuse to see ghosts from the past that probably are best kept that way. in the past. not ghosts. nevermind. the middle chuck, the calm before the storm part, was written during a period of my time when little girls were being stolen from their homes and families by bad, bad people. it seems like this kind of horrible shit happens in waves or something. but then you realize it's always happening, it's just that it becomes a 'thing' for the media to exploit for a while kind of like when they have those 'shark attack summers' that are really just slow news periods so they exploit something that happens regularly. etc. anyway, it seemed like every other day a little girl was being kidnapped. some of them turned up killed and/or worse. a few made it back home alive. it was disturbing to say the least and keeping up with the cases became a minor obsession. hence some of the lyrics. the rest of the lyrics (chorus, etc) are in reference to the pride that comes as a by-product of being an underdog, another popular (if not overused) theme among these songs and those that came before them (and let's be honest, old dog, new tricks, etc.). Anyway this theme takes on many levels . the most obvious being the genre of music we play, especially in this day and age. it's a conscious decision to not appease the mainstream, but probably a more important one to not appease the genre you do actually reside in. Not sure if that makes any sense on paper, but i guess my point is don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground. and that's why the bands not skreetlight skanifesto. Maybe next time i'll be more lucid (as usual the sun will be rising soon). Until then, stay safe and be kind to one another. Know that the love you feel for what we do (this is, if that's the case. If not we're genuinely sorry for wasting your time) is felt by us and hopefully the love we put into this is felt by you too."
Someone else typed this up, from the demo liner notes, so I thought I'd copy/paste it here for anyone else who wanted to see it but doesn't have the demo.
"And final there's we are the few. yet again a number of songs mushed into one long ass tune. The verses deal with a certain place I hold dear to my heart and how it feels to visit such a place when you're older and , well, not so innocent anymore. for the record i no longer wish one of us would pass away, it was an excuse to see ghosts from the past that probably are best kept that way. in the past. not ghosts. nevermind. the middle chuck, the calm before the storm part, was written during a period of my time when little girls were being stolen from their homes and families by bad, bad people. it seems like this kind of horrible shit happens in waves or something. but then you realize it's always happening, it's just that it becomes a 'thing' for the media to exploit for a while kind of like when they have those 'shark attack summers' that are really just slow news periods so they exploit something that happens regularly. etc. anyway, it seemed like every other day a little girl was being kidnapped. some of them turned up killed and/or worse. a few made it back home alive. it was disturbing to say the least and keeping up with the cases became a minor obsession. hence some of the lyrics. the rest of the lyrics (chorus, etc) are in reference to the pride that comes as a by-product of being an underdog, another popular (if not overused) theme among these songs and those that came before them (and let's be honest, old dog, new tricks, etc.). Anyway this theme takes on many levels . the most obvious being the genre of music we play, especially in this day and age. it's a conscious decision to not appease the mainstream, but probably a more important one to not appease the genre you do actually reside in. Not sure if that makes any sense on paper, but i guess my point is don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground. and that's why the bands not skreetlight skanifesto. Maybe next time i'll be more lucid (as usual the sun will be rising soon). Until then, stay safe and be kind to one another. Know that the love you feel for what we do (this is, if that's the case. If not we're genuinely sorry for wasting your time) is felt by us and hopefully the love we put into this is felt by you too."
Someone else typed this up, from the demo liner notes, so I thought I'd copy/paste it here for anyone else who wanted to see it but doesn't have the demo.