Die Young

'Die Young' by Wisdom in Chains

Maybe this is out of line but I envy the dead sometimes.
It's hard to say cause I've had close friends that passed away.
But they never have to feel again.
They never have to be in pain.
They never have to struggle just to be denied.
Maybe I'm the one who's cursed, condemned to walk the Earth, to grow old and lose my grip on everything that's close to me.
But I don't know.
I'm just thinking.
The more you know the less you know.
I'll find out eventually.
I hope it's not to late for me.

I've never been a lucky one.
I was born face down, a forgotten son.
I've never been a lucky one
Cause if we were lucky,
We would all die young.

You can rest in peace or live in violence.
Conflict, disease, this world don't make no sense.
When you come from the bottom, life's a joke.
All your hopes and dreams go up in smoke.
It makes me wonder what's the better day, the day you're born or when you go away.
Lately, I've been thinking about this loveless world and all the evil shit I've done and all the times that I've been wrong.
I've never met a righteous face.
Heaven must be an empty place or else it's full of people life me.
I guess I'll have to wait and see.

I first heard this song a couple of years ago when a now defunct band from NZ called the Warpath toured Australia and covered this song. I went home and downloaded it after one of the shows and I've been a fan of it ever since. I guess I really love the song because I feel like it's something I can relate to, like not in a corny 'oh I want to die and this song is kind of about death' kind of way, but more in a shared opinion sort of way. I often believe that life is nothing more than a struggle and the song seems to illustrate that extremely well. I guess it brings up the fact that life is decent most of the time, but that you always wonder about how much simpler it would probably be if everything was over. Wow, that sounds awful haha.

I was always too slack to check out any other Wisdom in Chains stuff but I might get off my arse and buy some of their shit today. I might head into the city around 5 and pick up both albums, we'll see how I go, I probably can't afford it but I'll probably do it anyway haha.

I guess today has been an alright day. 2 of my uni classes this morning were cancelled so I got to sleep in, I finished my last maths assignment so I'm now pretty much done for uni assignments this semester and I think I made some people laugh as well, so I guess that's alright. I bit of a cloud of loneliness was hanging over me as I walked home from the bus but I guess that's life. I guess I just realised all I was going to do when I got home was probably, look at porn and go to sleep. What a shitty unfulfilling life. Maybe I should just go watch videos of people hugging or something instead of watching porn? It would probably make me feel just as lonely.