This is one voice not to forget;

(i could tell you about my weekend, but what's the point? it's all filler, even when it feels like something else.)

i'd love to pretend like i've been an against me! fan since day one. but if i said i was, it'd be a ruse. i still feel like i've been there throughout the long haul, since i really only listen to the first lp, is reinventing axl rose. sometimes you find an album that's just too solid to even bother expanding on. everyone tells me the other ones are nothing like this, but still great. i don't want to set myself up for disappointment, though.

it's not that i'm closed-minded. i'm not. thing is, these are probably the best eleven songs i've heard in my entire life, when played together. not many bands understand the beauty of an album anymore, but they should-- there's something mind-shattering about it when it's done right. my favorite bands are the ones that have the ability to pull forty-minutes to an hour's worth of music together and turn it into heaven.

is reinventing axl rose opens and closes (i stop listening at track ten) with two of the best scream-along-when-your-shitfaced songs ever made. but there's something incredible about "walking is still honest." my life has been filled with numerous ups-and-downs, and it's fascinating that i've made it this far. this song reminds me of all the good times, all the terrible ones, and, most importantly, all the ones when i've felt like the world has knocked me out; when it laughs at me and tells me to give up.

"but not today."

this reminds me that i've picked myself the fuck up and thrown another punch, not for anyone but myself. it reminds me to prove everyone who doubts me wrong, and that the few people who are still behind me are holding me up.

i drove 267 miles sunday night, and blasted this at full volume and screamed it as tears flew down my cheeks for probably 80 of those miles.




there's a few lines you should probably scream yourself.

This is one voice not to forget;
"Fight every fight like you can win;
An iron fisted champion,
An iron willed fuck up."

Can anybody tell me why God won't speak to me?
Why Jesus never called on me to part the fucking seas?
Why death is easier than living?
You can be almost anything
When you're on your fucking knees.
Not today,
Not my son,
Not my family,
Not while walking is still honest,
And you haven't given up on me.

do it while i spend more time trying to figure out how to do something right.
<3