7 Days till the release of \u201cMountain\u201d now. ARE YOU READY?
\nI know we are. Watching \u201cSleeping With Lions\u201d stream 15,000 plays last night alone has us on cloud nine. Thanks to each and every one of you for continuing to demand your friends add it to their music libraries!
\nToday I\u2019m going to break down- \u201cKilling Machine\u201d.<\/p>\n
This is my (ct) current favorite song on the record. I like the cinematic visual of the song, the meanings and references. I\u2019m hesitant on a few of these songs to continue to describe them too accurately, because I know that they can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. But for now, I\u2019ll tell you what the song means to me.
\nI had finished up the last season of \u201cHell on Wheels\u201d (which is great if you haven\u2019t take the time to watch), and was thinking about some of the characters. Thinking about who we are as people, and the things that add up to make us into that specific human who can take another\u2019s life. Someone who has had his wife and family murdered and sets out on revenge during the civil war. My father, and step father sent to vietnam to fight and kill other humans for reasons they didn\u2019t understand. My wifes\u2019 grandfather sent to Germany to fight and destroy evil. Indian warriors fighting to save their land. All these situations that have brought men to the point where they would take another humans life. It\u2019s heavy to me. First verse in my head is an obituary of a civil war soldier when our nation killed it\u2019s own, brother against brother. The second verse the plight of the Native American post civil war. The last verse the great world wars. There are some hidden references and meanings in some of the lines, and I will leave that to the listener to decipher. The song is a character study on why these men became men that could kill and the heaviness and scarring that killing left upon them.
\nI would love to see the song make it to a television show in 2019, it\u2019s certainly visual to me. Thanks for reading\u2026. See you tomorrow with a break down of \u201cGone Not Dead\u201d.<\/p>\n
“Killing Machine”
\nAnother man dead I didn\u2019t want to kill
\nAnother soul lost that I didn\u2019t will
\nAnother man\u2019s pain that I didn\u2019t feel
\nAnother dead soldier laid on a hill<\/p>\n
Killing machine, oh Killing Machine
\nyou bought yourself a Killing Machine<\/p>\n
Run for the hills navajo let\u2019s go
\nRun through the streams and the valleys below
\nRun through the dreams of our fathers before
\nPassed in the night with blood on the door<\/p>\n
Killing machine, oh Killing Machine
\nyou bought yourself a Killing Machine<\/p>\n
Pitch them down from the 2nd floor
\nPitch them down to the dirt below
\nKiss their mothers with lips so cold
\nForeign soldiers never do grow old, do they?<\/p>\n
Killing machine, oh Killing Machine
\nyou bought yourself a Killing Machine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
7 Days till the release of \u201cMountain\u201d now. ARE YOU READY? I know we are. Watching \u201cSleeping With Lions\u201d stream 15,000 plays last night alone has us on cloud nine. Thanks to each and every one of you for continuing … Continue reading