30 Day Artist Challenge - Day Twentyfour: Against Me!
(how lovely Tom Gabel is…)
Band or Artist: Against Me!
Favorite Songs: I still love you, Julie; Baby I’m an anarchist; Stop!; Pints of Guinness make you strong; New Wave; Sink Florida sink; You look like I need a drink, Cliché Guevara; 8 full hours of sleep; Scream until you’re coughing up blood
Favorite Album: Against Me! is reinventing Axl Rose
Favorite Lyrics:
Everything
you got to hold on to,
everything
you relied on to be there is completely fucked
There’s a skeleton of loyalty hanging in the gallows of your heart
[no one wins this one]
And where are your friends?
Please help me through these years ahead.
Are we just drinking buddies
playing with each other’s deapest vulnerability?
That this is all we know?
So this is how it’s gonna stay?
I think I
would rather
remember how it was and go our separate ways.
I don’t feel anything
unless we are living and dying for each other
every second of our lives.
Everything
you thought that it would be,
everything
you thought you were living for is completely fucked.
This is no place to be.
If we don’t get out of here right now,
we’re just gonna end up drunk, fucking,
and fighting and working machines.
If I have another cigarette,
if I drink another beer,
sit quiet another time when I should’ve said
“Oh, this is too much.
there are things I never wanted to be.”
This ship has sprung a leak
and I’ll be damned if I’m going down with it.
Still breathing at any cost.
Seen live? Yes, in 2010. Fifty-something people, experiencing a massive headache that disappeared when they started to play and came back after they ended. And lot of mosquitos. Great gig, anyway.
