This review:
- Music people recommend me
- Songs that have a special place in my heart
- Whatever music’s on my mind at the time of the review (In this case, I had been listening to on the way back to my dorm.)
Alkaline Trio - Dethbed
If anyone knows why they spelled the title that way, I’d love to know.
Off of the album
Crimson(
2005), comes
Alkaline Trio’s
Dethbed. The bassist, Dan Andriano admits that the band spent a tad more time on
Crimson than they had on other albums, this could be the reason why this album stands out so much when I listen to
Alkaline Trio. But don’t quote me on that… I don’t rate albums for a reason. xD
The first time I heard this song, I was falling asleep in the car waiting for my sister to come back from the mall. I’d heard some Alkaline Trio in the past when I was with one of my friends, but I never asked her for any of the CDs or to burn any of their work for me. I downloaded this discography because it was recommended to me BY her…. I never really listened to it. Because I didn’t have the actual album, and instead I used a torrent, I was able to receive all of the demos of the songs as well as the songs themselves.
Anyway, while my Zune was on shuffle, this demo of this song came up. Drifting in and out of sleep, I closed my eyes to what I figured I’d heard a million times before. As the music continued playing, I found myself almost unable to move as I listened to the lyrics.
They found me face-down in the street
On the night you left to find
Another place to sleep, in rain and regret
They said they tried everything but it was no use
Yeah, they tried everything and everyone but you
Nothing entirely impressive, but for some reason, the chorus (above) really hit home for me. I found myself repeating the song for the next half hour, unable to understand what it was about the song that made me feel like breaking down. Playing the chorus repeatedly, I realized that I was tearing up. None of the rest of the song was affecting me this way, and I became more and more frustrated as the chorus passed and the song continued. To this day, I'm not exactly positive what it is that makes me feel that way, it could be something in my past or it could just be a really sad song. Generally, the lyrics above are able to tell an entire story in just a few lines, and I think maybe it was too much for me take in.
This song means a lot to me, but the actual version isn’t nearly as emotional for me as the demo version was. BECAUSE this song means so much to me, I have no interest in rating it.
Eh. ^_^ Thank you for listening, reading,
maybe commenting and criticizing? I’ll post the regular version up so that you at least get a feel for the song if you don’t know it already.