So I've been listening to the new Shadows Fall record, _Threads of Life_ in my car. I like it a lot better than when I first listened and thought it was okay. Now it's keeping me asskicking company during my lonely drives.
There's this ballad on it called "Another Hero Lost." It's an all clean-vocal track written about lead singer Brian Fair's cousin who died in the war.
So I'd listened to the CD a bunch of times, then a few days ago it came to track 6, "Another Hero Lost," and I must have just been in the right kind of mood, but I really payed attention to the lyrics and thought about it's meaning. It really got to me. I got a ball in my throat a couple of times because of the emotion.
"I'll never leave youbut Fate has come to silence medarkness is all that I seeI cannot reach youAnd soon the earth will cover meit's become so hard to breathe
Forever...is waitingThe final steps you're takingWill soon be buried in the sand
And all of the battles they say we wonThey leave another thousand lives undoneAnother thousand lives undone
Forever...is waitingThe final steps you're takingWill soon be buried in the sand
You're gone but not forgottenAnother hero lostThe sorrow builds with every passingAll the lessons that you taughtWhen all would light you brightIt is all in the eyes of your son
(Solo)
Forever...is waitingThe final steps you're takingWill soon be buried in the sand
You're gone but not forgottenAnother hero lostThe sorrow builds with every passingAll the lessons that you taughtWhen all would light you brightIt is all in the eyes of your son"
That's real, man.