It's 12:30am on January 1, 2013. I've been screaming for the metalcore band The Picture Of Dorian Gray for 3 years now. Over the past 6 months we've been writing new material and recording our second album. During what little down time we have we'll start discussing which one of our old songs we want to keep playing live and for me it always comes back to the song un//forgiveness and A New Day Rising. The second was the first song we ever recorded and it was the first one to show up on iTunes. I wrote the lyrics in November of 2010. I can remember exactly what I was thinking, what I was feeling. I remember the place that those lyrics came from....a place of deep brokenness.
We can, and will become broken many times throughout our time here in this life, but each time is unique in it's own little way. The brokenness that the lyrics come from is something I'm long past, but the repercussions of that brokenness...well, it's a story I've shared multiple times, a story that became the subject matter of the bands entire first album. I'll spare you and not rehash it again.
On this quiet and lonely New Years morning I figured out why that song is so important to me. We like to think of New Years as a new beginning for us. A whole new year to learn from our mistakes. A time to put the past behind us. We all say it. We tweet it, post it as our Facebook status in some form or another, but we never do it. I mean, sure for a couple of weeks we act like we were visited by the Ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. We totally change our ways. Then, come February we're back to our old ways.
The song, A New Day Rising, has a lyric before the last chorus that says, "
