9:02 PM / 30 October

Why can't there be more bands like Protest The Hero? They are the only band I've managed to find that plays the type of music they play. It takes brains to do what they do. They are able to write a whole story and represent it with great technical musicianship. Maybe it's just me, but this world needs more intelligent bands like them.


'Blindfolds Aside' by Protest The hero




We woke up as men but tonight we'll sleep as killers
As we break the cryptic morning with a bullet and a prayer

The steel never seemed more cold and agile than life never seems less vital and fragile
With a heart that's beating louder than my own

I watch a girl they call Kezia
I watch a woman that I know
my hopes and my own future blindfolded

To atone for a sin I didn't care for, but a sin that paid my debts
A sin that fed my children and burned my smiles and cigarettes
and No one ever said that hope would be so beautiful
and no one ever said I had to pull that trigger, on her
I can't even still her trembling hands that were locked up by the dutiful and obligated;

Five soldiers forever sedated with the,
"No one's responsible" psychological drama of our social justice dribble
Her tiny steps tell lies about the choice I have to make;
Resurrect a static lifetime to starve to death my own mistakes

So pull the screaming trigger and watch your carcass bleed me dry
Or drop the gun and try to shake away the blindfold from your eyes?

Drop the gun(kill her), drop the gun(shoot her), drop the gun(kill her), drop the gun.