darkness within

• tamamı akustik olan bir machine head parçası, unto the locust'tan, şöyle de bir hikayesi var;
  
  read there is one that is primarily acoustic.
  
  yeah, “the darkness within.”
  
  did you bring that one in?
  
  actually the whole premise came about from a riff that dave, our drummer, wrote. he had written this riff that i loved that had a very pink floyd vibe. i was sitting in my room playing it on guitar for like an hour and a half, just hypnotizing myself. i had just seen that movie “crazy heart” and i was singing in this croaky, cigarette and whiskey voice. i came up with this cool cadence. i didn’t have any lyrics, but i was just making up things as i went. the next day it was a miserable, rainy day. i was dropping off my son at preschool and was coming back. there was this virus going around that was killing all the oak trees. so there were all these dead or dying, leafless oak trees everywhere. it was the perfect miserable day with all these dying, dead oak trees. i was like, “okay, let’s see what happens here.” so i pulled over, pulled out my iphone, opened up my notes, and just started typing. at first it was very lovecrafty with cobwebs and whippoorwills and fog rolling over hills. i got my h.p. lovecraft out of the way, and then i went into this thing about depression, music, and how much music means to me in my life. it’s carried me through my highest highs and lowest lows. when i think of moments in my life, there’s always this soundtrack to it. it’s music – not my own music. it’s someone else’s music. i wrote for a half an hour this huge burst of lyrics and i had this other melody coming out of my head, and i wrote the chorus. i called up dave and said, “i’ve got practice right now.” it kind of changed around a little bit. phil had written this other riff that we had partially in there. then i rewrote the verses around this other riff. it’s out of left field.
  
  (ultimate-guitar.com'dan alıntıdır.)
• unto the locust'tan bir machine head power balladı. albümün special editionında full akustik versiyonu da var. vokalini hiç beğenmediğim rob flynn pek güzel söylemiş, helal olsun.
• sözleri;
  
  here in this darkness that i lay
  depression heavy in its way
  and how my body aches to leave
  and sing its final eulogy
  my sons i love you ever more
  and though the road back ends once more
  i see the damage that i've done
  and search for redemption
  but i am just a broken man
  who's soul cries out to understand
  how the madness shatters me
  upon the stage on bended knee
  i scream aloud at skies above
  that answer mute, bereft and loved
  i struggle not to fall from grace
  i sing the hyms of my disgrace
  
  we build cathedrals to our pain
  establish monuments to obtain
  freedom from all of the scars and the sins
  lest we drown in the darkness within
  
  misery's forgotten chords
  i strum in vain to please the lord
  but he has never answered me
  and faith has winged eternaly
  an empty man who passed along
  the woes of all religions wrong
  and now the shadow veil it falls
  hear the clarion calls
  so pray to music
  build a shrine
  worship in these desperate times
  fill your heart with every note
  cherish it and cast a flow
  cause god is in his laughing tone
  salvation is found alone
  haunted by its melody
  music, it will set you free (let it set you free)
  
  we build cathedrals to our pain
  establish monuments to obtain
  freedom from all of the scars and the sins
  lest we drown in the darkness within
  
  do do do....
  
  woah, woah...
  
  woah!!!
  music my savior!!!
  save me!!!
  music my savior!!!
  save me!!!
  music my savior!!!
  save me!!!
  music my savior!!!
  save me!!!
  
  we build cathedrals to our pain
  establish monuments to obtain
  freedom from all of the scars and the sins
  lest we drown in the darkness within
  
  we build cathedrals to our pain (woah...!!!)
  establish monuments to obtain (woah...!!!)
  freedom from all of the scars and the sins (woah...!!!)
  lest we drown in the darkness within (woah...!!!)
  
  do do do...
• unto the locust'un en beğendiğim şarkısı. rob'un vokali, şarkının yükselişi ve solo mükemmelleştirmiş şarkıyı, çıkışı ayrı bir güzel.
• unto the locust'un en sevdiğim şarkısı bu sanırım. çok damardan girmiş robert flynn. bir de böyle yer yer bi alice in chains tadı mı aldım diyim ne diyim, öyle bir şeyler. yani aslında çok alakasız aic ile falan da, işte öyle gibi de bir yandan. değil gibi de. güzel şarkı işte amına koyım.
• (bkz: darkness within in pursuit of loath nolder)
• machine head'in prag ta klip çektiği masterpiece.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/…&utm_source=darkness within
• öncelikle, klibi youtube playlistimde ancak "rahatsız edici içerik" sebebiyle sürekli playlist akışını bozuyor.
  
  sonuçta, adı gibi karanlık bi parça. depresif olduğumda içimi daha da karartmak için dinlerim.