went to the dance gavin dance/fall of troy concert last week

🎶ENLIGHTENING🎶

🎶INSPIRING🎶

🎶MEANINGFUL STATEMENT🎶

🎶NO ONE MAKES IT OUT🎶

R.I.Power Tim Feerick. You were an excellent bassist and you were loved by over a million people.

Fentanyl is a cruel and deceptive substance. It's taking good people.

I hope you're still puttin out sick licks in your afterlife.

I adore DGD. My heart goes out to them. I've heard they're struggling with the loss on tour and I just hope we as their fans can be understanding and still enjoy seeing these wonderful, talented men perform. All they want is to put on a good show for you.

So this is one of my favorite DGD songs & it came into my life at such a pivotal moment. I knew the lyrics meant something deep but I had never taken the time to truly listen & dissect.

One night while on acid, I got an intense urge to listen to DGD & of course started with my favorite song. I listened to it on repeat. Really listened. The lyrics hit me in a completely different way & it holds an even more special place in my heart for helping me through such a dark but transformative period of my life.

What I learned the lyrics meant, for me of course, was along the lines of being in a viscous cycle, knowing you're in that cycle, but not doing anything to stop the cycle. Either ignoring it completely or blaming the issues that you allow or created on others.

Which is something I didn't want to admit, but I knew I had been doing for a great period of my life. Living in denial. Being a hypocrite. Hindering my own growth by being afraid to leave the cycle I had grown comfortable in. By being afraid of change because where I was felt normal. Regardless of how unhealthy this place was for mentally & physically.

2020/2021 was a huge metamorphosis phase for me. I had finally started to look deeper into my issues. Deeper into situations that I had otherwise dismissed or pushed blame onto another. I learned the importance of communication, no matter how hard it may be. I learned the importance of honesty, no matter how brutal it may be. I learned to look at situations from other peoples shoes if this situation could affect them as well. Learned to ask myself how I would feel if that person had done what I had done or planned on doing.

Its safe to say that Death of a Strawberry & Strawberry's Wake by Dance Gavin Dance were both critical theme songs during that period of my life. Coincidentally playing into each other with lessons through lyrics. Coincidentally both containing "Death" & "Wake" in their titles. But, the story of Strawberry's Wake is one for another post.