Music From the heart(video inside)

well in todays rant, i go back to a conversation i had about last summer i believe with some friends on my that have been building in the back of my head for quite some time.
it was a regular day at jerrys when the topic of rock music came up. my sons had mentioned liking some mellow or tippy type or artist at the time and i gave a look of "ok, moving on" in the misdt of this he replies somewhere along the lines of thats why i listen to that ol scary weird shit like seether, and went on to mock a recent video they did for the song rise above. at the time i didn't have much to say on the subject, cause he always seemed to turn off his reasoning to hear somebody out in the attempt to win conversations. looking back now i can honestly say the seether is the type of music that defines my life, that a host of other artist which i will attempt to tackle one by one over the course of my blogging. back to the subject at hand, i never got the chance to break down or tell him why the video seemed "weird and crazy" to him but normal to most. firstly i'll put up the lyrics to the song which will be at the bottom of this last sentence;



"Take the light and darken everything around me,
Call the clouds, and listen closely, I’m lost without you.

Call your name every day,
When I feel so helpless.
I’ve fallen down, but ill rise above this (rise above this).

Hate your mind, regrets are better left unspoken.
For all we know this void will grow,
An everything's in vain, distressing you though it leaves me open,
Feels so right that I’ll end this all before it gets me.

Call your name every day, when I feel so helpless.
I’ve fallen down (fallen down) but I’ll rise above this (rise above this)
Call your name every day when I seem so helpless.
I’ve fallen down (fallen down) but ill rise above this rise, rise above this doubt

I’ll mend myself before it gets me..
I’ll mend myself before it gets me..
I’ll mend myself before it gets me..
I’ll mend myself before it gets me..

Call your name every day,
When I feel so helpless.
I’ve fallen down (fallen down) but I’ll rise above this (Rise above this)
Forty eight ways to say that im feeling helpless, i've fallen down, and I’ll…

Rise above this, rise above this, rise above this, rise above this doubt"

for those of you that had ever kept up to date or have a general knowlege of seether knows that shaun morgans brother Eugene Welgemoed went to commit suicide a couple of weeks before the album came out, causing them to push it back a week or two to cope with the lost. the song, however, was shauns attempt to bring his brother out of depression, not knowing the full extent of his brothers suffering. wether he had a feeling he knew what was comming or a devine force causing him to pin the lyrics to the song down, it was later released with a video that fit it's mood and purpose effectivly. The video's storyline revolves around a depressed boy who decides to leap off a building. As he falls, his family falls with him. Through the course of falling they try to overcome their problems and eventually bounce back up. It has a Suicide Hotline number at the end of the video on television airings in America as well as a picture of Shaun Morgan's younger brother. Below the photo reads his name and birth & death dates. insted of having a dark or mildly depressing song, admitting there guilt and sorrow towards the lost of his loved one, it was mellow but upbeat with the message of bouncing back form depression and "rising above" whatever problems or setbacks life seems to throw at you.

"Take the light and darken everything around me,
Call the clouds, and listen closely, I’m lost without you."

im sure one person or another knows the pain of losing someone close to them, or will someday eventually. not spoken in riddles and complete metaphores, shaun describes the somber notes of what you can expect from one who has suffered the lost in begining stages: wanting to be by there lonely, or void of light and in the dark to greive, wishing in moments of talking to there lost ones and admitting there feelings of being lost with them in there lives any longer.

"Call your name every day, when I feel so helpless."

i have lost lots of relatives in the past. some when i was younger, most as i got older. i know the pain of wanting to talk to them when i felt weak or lost in the face of adversity. these were people close to me. the feeling of you at your weakest and wishing you could call on that person to comfert you, to help you get by. it's a feeling that not many wish to go through, but we do and the next line is what usally follows:

"I’ve fallen down (fallen down) but I’ll rise above this (rise above this)"

while most others will mope around for days, or in some cases the rest of there lives in the face of defeat or in greivence, heres a man saying although he is down right now, sadden by the lost, he will rise up and over come the situation and keep going. keep living his life. he's not saying cut your wrist, drink the pain away, smoke or what have you. he is saying he will simple "rise above this".

"I’ll mend myself before it gets me.."

I especially like this line. morgan says this over and over again as if it is a promise to himself. Bascily you can infer that he is making a promise to himslef that he move on before the pain and sorrow take over and cause him to do the excat same thing his brother did and caused him the pain in the first place. the pact is told over and over again, helping him stay strong getting past the the pain of what had just occured

"Forty eight ways to say that im feeling helpless, i've fallen down, and I’ll…
Rise above this, rise above this, rise above this, rise above this doubt"

and befitting in the end, he says there are many ways for him to say he's losing faith, feeling weak, helpless, and that he's fallen too, but in the end it's all excuses and he knows that he'll just rise above it all in the end and get past the doubt.

for me, and probably others, i love music that is based and influced off of emotion. sure i like a song for it's lyrical aspect. sure i can love a song for meledy and apeall. sure i can dig an artist for there genius and way with words, and hell i can even appreciate those that just want to be "diffrent and/or hip". but for me, those who can connect to a person on a emotional and personal way is the bands i listen to the hardest. wether they bring out your inner wild child, get you in a happy mood, make you say fuck the world, or get you through the storm, long as it makes you feel something, thats what it should all be about. I mean..during filming, the band had to try performing three times due to Morgan's difficulty keeping from sobbing. thats how you know it's legit feelings in a song. it's why i prefered eminem and joe budden then jay-Z and lil wayne, why i bumped Shinedown and seether then any other band, theres a list of artist that go on and on that help me get through life with there songs filled with raw emotion that ranged from sadness to triphimth in adversity. not to say the all time great Jay never made me feel anything, but he seemd more about the style the feeling, the Coolness then the vibing. thats just my opinion. he's a dope emcee but i could never relate to him the way i did with eminem and later on buddens and joel ortiz.

music is music, you can like it for whatever reason you want, but never judge anothers form of music without getting there side of the story, there reason for liking what you might see as weird or strange. for me, i love music that comes from the heart(corny plug from the title of the blog butoh well)
in my closing i will post a couple of comments i seen that came from the video and how people also seemed to relate to it in a way thats personal to them:


Ashley Walstrum
I love the fact that it has a great message and is a tribute to his bro BUT isn't a horribly depressing song... it has a great upbeat tune to ti and def. gets me out of my depression moods for sure.

rasel wasel
the song have a great message...i was inspired...just made my day

Avia Pullman
This song Describes me...so much..I cry whenever i hear it

Luis Alvarez

"I'll mend myself before it gets me..." Great song.

haha... it's so timely. i've risen above something that just happened to me. Hahaha...

Branna
This video makes me wanna cry.... awesome song and video... major impact lol

Timothy Hansford
Last edited Dec 9th, 4:05pm.This song is amazing....I've been through this before....This is possibly my favorite song. I feel so bad about the singer's brother....hope you can rise above this!

And Sammy....we're all missin you! This song is for you girl!


erin cosgrove
LOVE ALL SEETHER MUSIC, BUT THIS SONG CAME OUT AROUND THE TIME I LOST MY MOM, I PLAY THIS SONG A LOT!

Little Bit
This is absolutely one of my all time favorite songs...I truly believe I can conquer anything when I listen to it, and jam with you guys...thanks for the words to live by.