When Our Worlds Fall Apart

Posted on 2020/11/06 by Chad Philip

Halo (track 04 from the Violator LP by Depeche Mode )

You wear guilt like shackles on your feet
Like a halo in reverse

I can feel the discomfort in your seat
In your head, it’s worse

There is a pain
A famine in your heart
An aching to be free

Can’t you see?
All of love’s luxuries are here for you and me

When our worlds fall apart
When the walls come tumbling in
Although we may deserve it, it will be worth this

Bring your chains
Your lips of tragedy
Fall into my arms

When our worlds fall apart
When the walls come tumbling in
Although we may deserve it, it will be worth this

Senseless Sensationalism and Erroneous Echo Chambers

Posted on 2020/11/03 by Chad Philip

Thanks to CNN and other leading news organizations for doing a damn fine job of making the 2020 presidential election feel like a heavyweight matchup. And not just a heavyweight matchup, but one on which the vast majority of Americans bet their next three rent/mortgage payments.

Also, what in the name of Nicholas Cage’s butthole is wrong with the mainstream polling systems? For months, countless voices in the media have congratulated themselves on their “highly accurate data” and so they were quick to make confident (but in actuality boisterous) claims that Joe Biden would handily defeat Donald Trump. Yet, just the preliminary results of the 2020 election exposed how horribly and embarrassingly wrong they all were—and are.

Oh wait—isn’t this the second consecutive presidential election where something like this has happened? Remember the general narrative back in 2016 and how certain everyone was that Hillary Clinton would win mostly uncontested? There were news reports, professional articles, opinion pieces, political advertisements, oodles of fucking polls, and cartoons like the one below, all of which formed a potent cocktail of assurances that the Democratic Party would be victorious.

Don’t like Trump? Well, if you’re not an idiot then you should have at least an equal amount of malcontent right now for the spoon-fed garbage you have been consuming from your favorite news outlet(s) for the last 6+ months. In fact, now would be an excellent time to begin removing your head from your ass so that you can attempt an objective reassessment of what the hell you were just put through (and of those organizations whom are most responsible for putting you through it).

Confirmation bias is a thing, folks—but at such high stakes it only works if you’re not also inept.

Once There Was a Girl Who Thought She Needed to Be Saved…

Posted on 2020/10/31 by Chad Philip

Devil Make the Deal (track 04 from the Horror Show EP by The Midnight )

Once there was a man with good intentions and some people at home he forgot to mention
She was looking for a friend and he was willing to listen

Once there was a man with good intentions…

Nobody has to know
It’s all right to let go
And nobody has to see that what’s between you and me is you and me

Once there was a girl who thought she needed to be saved by a white knight on a white horse in a white cape
And maybe he’s taken, but you’ll take him anyway

Once there was a girl who thought shе needed to be saved…

Nobody has to know
It’s all right to lеt go
And nobody has to see that what’s between you and me is you and me

I don’t wanna change your mind
I don’t wanna go home tonight
Tell me no or I’m coming over
Let the devil make a deal with the angel on your shoulder

[Cue sexy guitar solo]

Hold that Bloodied Head Up High

Posted on 2020/10/17 by Chad Philip

Good in Red (track 05 from the Horror Show EP by The Midnight )

Called a curse in the cradle, with a loving mother but unstable
Daddy is gone
Under the table
But you found a song in your heart
So you learned how to fight, how to starve, how to survive
When the others blocked your light you learned to see beyond the stars

The curse of small desires is easily acquired
It’s time to set your gasoline heart on fire

Kill your demons—kill them dead
In your mirror
In your bed
In your heart
In your head
Don’t you look good in red?

Slay your devils—kill them all
Take your throne
Paint the walls
And if you make it out alive, hold that bloodied head up high

Don’t you look good in red?

Is there more beyond those plains?
You cut your hair and changed your name
Left a note as you escaped: “To thine own self be true”
But there was no gold in those hills—no platinum in those pretty pills
Just werewolves tossing dollar bills and the wine-dark sea of Malibu

The curse of small desires is easily acquired
It’s time to set your gasoline heart on fire

Kill your demons—kill them dead
In your mirror
In your bed
In your heart
In your head
Don’t you look good in red?

Slay your devils—kill them all
Take your throne
Paint the walls
And if you make it out alive, hold that bloodied head up high

Don’t you look good in red?

No one is coming to save you
Swing the sword you made with the pain they gave you like that pain is gonna save you

Kill your demons—kill them dead
In your mirror
In your bed
In your heart
In your head
Don’t you look good in red?

Slay your devils—kill them all
Take your throne
Paint the walls
And if you make it out alive, hold that bloodied head up high

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