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[rosepersomnium]

Welcome to day two of my musical advent calendar! There are two songs today, for reasons explained below. If anyone reads this, feel free to leave a comment or your own song recommendations. :)

Dec. 2: Secret Worlds by The Amazing Devil and So Called Life by Three Days Grace

"If I have to be who I was (you're not)

Do I have to be who I am?

...

Didn't the trees tell us their stories?

Yeah, but we, we thought you were mental

You were talking to trees!"

I meant to choose a different album today and come back to "ruin" another time but the "just watch me burn" part was stuck in my head the whole morning even though I haven't listened to it in a few days, so I took that as a sign. (And then when I googled the line to figure out which song it belonged to, I noticed it's the song I had set as my alarm tone last week, so it's not that strange after all.)

What I love about this song (among other things):

- such a great opening song to an album

- the diversity of ways to interpret it, even for just one person: at times it sounds - to me - like a call to adventure towards the listener, at others it's a tale about two characters but it's also a dialogue between them…

- all the metaphors. songs where you can discover some new meaning every time you listen to it are a favorite of mine

- the underlying quick rhythm. Makes me just wanna leave and run. Anywhere, just to get away from anything and anyone holding me back and pushing me down

Now to the second song. So Called Life was actually just published 3 days ago and I only listened to it once yesterday when YouTube told me to, so it's not like I can say much about it yet. When jotting down some notes for this project yesterday, I put down "a bit too hard for my taste at my current mood but probably perfect for the next I-hate-everything-leave-me-the-fuck-alone- day" - and here we are. The morning went great but then I had to deal with too many incompetent people who couldn't be bothered to do even the bare minimum of what could possibly be expected of them and didn't I just discover a song for the mood that put me in?

By now I've calmed down and listened to it on repeat several times and I've gotta say, I really like it (even though I shouldn't listen to it when I'm already aggravated at something because this song WILL make it worse. Unless I want it to, then it will definitely be the new number one on my list of songs to listen to when I want to let off steam.) and I'm looking forward to the new album in May 2022. :)

What I like about the song (among other things):

- the RAGE

- the quick listing of things the lyrical I can't do in the first verse because that's exactly how my rage often feels to me - only negatives without any outlet or (realistic) idea what to do against it

- probably also how TDG is just a comfort band to me. I grew up listening to them in my angry early teenager years and they're still one of my to-go-bands for dealing with unreleased negative emotions

- On a meta level, I find it interesting that they chose the word order "such a waste of fucking time" instead of "such a fucking waste of time". Both would work with the rhythm, so was it a conscious choice or just coincidence?

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