Category: Music

I’ve grown really fond of this song and with Taproot as a band. So much so that my roommates are getting sick of it. I really like these guys, and I’m thinking I’m gonna go see them when they tour with Mudvayne. This is the “radio song” but it’s still great.

Taproot – Poem

Well I’m gonna try to breathe life into the Music Section again. I think I should start with one of my new driving songs. I swear I should make a CD of all my favorite driving songs and then sell it. Anyway, this is one of those songs that comes on and if I’m on the freeway, then my usual “conservative” 75 turns into about 90+….

Admittedly, I didn’t care that much for the first Mudvayne album when I first bought it, but after a time it grew on me. The new CD gets played about all the time. This song is the aforementioned driving song.

Mudvayne – Not Falling

proud swagger out of the schoolyard
waiting for the world’s applause
rebel without a conscience
martyr without a cause

static on your frequency
electrical storm in your veins
raging at unreachable glory
straining at invisible chains

and now you’re trembling on a rocky ledge
staring down into a heartless sea
can’t face life on a razor’s edge
nothing’s what you thought it would be

All of us get lost in the darkness
Dreamers learn to steer by the stars
All of us do time in the gutter
Dreamers turn to look at the cars
turn around and turn around and turn around
Turn around and walk the razor’s edge
Don’t turn your back
And slam the door on me

it’s not as if this barricade
blocks the only road
it’s not as if you’re all alone
in wanting to explode

someone set a bad example
made surrender seem all right
the act of a noble warrior
who lost the will to fight

and now you’re trembling on a rocky ledge
staring down into a heartless sea
done with life on a razor’s edge
nothing’s what you thought it would be

no hero in your tragedy
no daring in your escape
no salutes for your surrender
nothing noble in your fate
Christ, what have you done?