TWO DAYS until the official release of Mountain. So much news coming your way today, new reviews, new playlists adds, continued success leading up to this release and we want to thank all of you again for your role in helping getting the word spread and turning people on to our music.<\/p>\n
Today I\u2019ll break down the first track on the album \u201cThe Great Unknown\u201d. Lyrically this is one of my favorite songs I\u2019ve ever written. It\u2019s set in the open western landscape as early Americans travel west. The songs meaning is really that no man knows his future. No two days are exactly alike in our lifetime, and if you make plans and think you know exactly how your life will go you can bet it will not follow that path. I was focusing on settlers moving west and how that must have felt, not knowing what the future would hold, so many obstacles, such beautiful land, how native Americans must have felt. Life was so hopeful then, but also so fragile.<\/p>\n
First verse a stranded young husband has lost his wife, standing on a hill, looking up and questioning God. Meanwhile his brothers have made it out west and have hit gold. Their sister broke, has turned to prostitution in an effort to stay alive.<\/p>\n
Second verse we have an man coming back north from a train robbery in mexico, perhaps to get money to start his family back home. In the meantime his wife at home has taken up with another man, by the time that he gets home he has lost what he sat out to build.<\/p>\n
Third verse a solider has returned from a battle and finds a war tribe has destroyed his home and killed his family. It discusses the topic of revenge and war and how that cycle never seems to end.<\/p>\n
The Great Unknown<\/p>\n
Young man stands high on a hill shakes his fists at the sky above.
\nDown below in the valley there\u2019s a grave with a name of a woman he loved.
\nOut west cross the rivers and plains now his brothers striking rich with gold
\nTheir sister in hotel room working money off a man she knows<\/p>\n
Just beyond the great unknown
\nAre the answers that nobody knows
\nJust beyond the great unknown
\nAre the answers that nobody knows<\/p>\n
Pale rider on a jet black mare, got a rifle and a .44
\n500 dollars from a train he robbed down south in Mexico
\nBack home now his wife got a suitor, got a ring and an evening gown
\nBy the time that he reach Sioux City, she done laid that poor boy down, down, down<\/p>\n
Just beyond the great unknown
\nAre the answers that we will never know
\nJust beyond the great unknown
\nAre the answers that nobody knows<\/p>\n
Red man with a scalp in his hand on a horse that he calls war
\nSoldier just beyond two days ride walks back in through his front door
\nSomeone always gotta debt to pay, someone always gotta settle the score.
\nNo matter how the blood is shed, someone always wants more, more, more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TWO DAYS until the official release of Mountain. So much news coming your way today, new reviews, new playlists adds, continued success leading up to this release and we want to thank all of you again for your role in … Continue reading