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This next Shinedown is one that I first heard at the end of November 2014 from the website SoundCloud.
Back last year, when I used to do and IT GCSE, I had loads of coursework that I had to complete. Most of this had to be done after school in a computer room. It was only me that would stay behind every night, and it got incredibly boring. Especially since I couldn't use YouTube in school to keep myself entertained due to the fact that it used way too much internet.
Instead, I discovered the website called SoundCloud on the internet. I thought that it would be a great idea to listen to Shinedown songs on here, so I just keyed in "Shinedown" and listened to the top songs. The first ones that came up were Second Chance and Unity, but a little bit further down, Sound Of Madness was the next song.
Very quickly, this song won me over, and it made me want to finally listen to Shinedown's complete album called The Sound Of Madness! This discovery certainly led to me finding many other Shinedown songs because the long hours in IT certainly got very boring, so Shinedown would always entertain me.
This song has recently had a massive impact on me because recently, in our youth club at church, my friend Chez has been playing many Shinedown songs on the loud speakers, and Sound Of Madness had been one of the most played songs. It is also one of my friend Leah's favourite Shinedown songs, and she always requests this song because she knows all of the lyrics to it.
Fairly recently, on Sunday 31st May 2015, my Uncle Peter drove me and my friends Leah, Louise, Georgia and Anya to a Starbucks that was at the motorway services, and we all had some hot chocolates there. It was like a mini road trip for us, and most of my friends suggested that we should listen to some Shinedown songs. So the first album that my Uncle Peter played was Shinedown's live album called Somewhere In The Stratosphere. Leah really wanted Sound Of Madness on, so in the back of the car, we were all jamming to this song, and many more on the way there, and on the way back.
The meaning of the song that I interpret is that it is about a person who has faced many problems in life, but they just have to get on with it, and continue to live their life. I've never head an acoustic version to this song, but if I did, it would probably inspire me to learn this song on guitar, just like all of Shinedown's acoustic versions of their songs do to me.
Feel free to talk about some of your favourite Shinedown songs below, and stay tuned for other posts from me!
I'll see you all next Thursday!
Lois xx
P.S. I'll leave the lyrics to Sound Of Madness below incase you're interested!
Yeah, I get it,
You're an outcast.
Always under attack.
Always coming in last,
Bringing up the past.
No one owes you anything.
I think you need a shotgun blast,
A kick in the ass,
So paranoid...
Watch your back!!
Oh my, here we go...
Another loose cannon gone bi-polar
Slipped down, couldn't get much lower
Quicksand's got no sense of humour.
I'm still laughing like hell.
You think that by crying to me
Looking so sorry that I'm gonna believe,
You've been infected by a social disease.
Well, then take your medicine.
I created the Sound of Madness.
Wrote the book on pain.
Somehow I'm still here,
To explain,
That the darkest hour never comes in the night.
You can sleep with a gun.
When you gonna wake up and fight... for yourself?
I'm so sick of this tombstone mentality,
If there's an afterlife,
Then it'll set you free.
But I'm not gonna part the seas
You're a self-fulfilling prophecy.
You think that crying to me,
Looking so sorry that I'm gonna believe,
You've been infected by a social disease.
Well, then take your medicine.
I created the Sound of Madness.
Wrote the book on pain.
Somehow I'm still here,
To explain,
That the darkest hour never comes in the night.
You can sleep with a gun.
When you gonna wake up...
When you gonna wake up and fight...
I created the Sound of Madness.
Wrote the book on pain.
Somehow I'm still here,
To explain,
That the darkest hour never comes in the night.
You can sleep with a gun.
When you gonna wake up and fight... for yourself?
When you gonna wake up and fight... for yourself?
When you gonna wake up and fight... for yourself?
When you gonna wake up and fight... for yourself?
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