Inside Reading for 7/9

Last Wednesday I went to the Stimulate This Tour. They had four bands playing. Halestorm was first. I'm not a big fan of her music. The only song I heard from her before the concert was a song called "I get off." This song is pretty perverted. Basically she says this guy is watching her getting off and she gets off on this idea. I don't care for this at all. It's disgusting. The chorus goes like this, "I get off on you Getting off on me Give you what you want But nothing is for free It's a give and take Kinda life we make When your line is crossed I get off I get off." She is definitely someone I will not recommend you see. The next band was Chevelle. They were pretty good...not as good as I heard he could be. He must have had a sore throat or something that night because he kept getting drinks from a cup sitting by his drummer. My boyfriend happened to lean over at one point after his second to last song because there was a part he was supposed to scream and didn't and said to me I'm disappointed, I was waiting for that part the entire song and he didn't scream it. Shocking that I could actually hear him. The next band that came out was Shinedown. The entire reason why I wanted to go to this concert so bad. They were AMAZING! Brent (the lead singer) really touched me at one point, before he played the song"Second Chance" he told us what the scoop behind it was. He told us it took him 15 years to write down these lyrics. It was too his mom and dad. He was basically telling them to let him go and live his life. That goodbye was his second chance to make something of himself. He threw his caution out of his head and went after what he wanted. The chorus goes like this, "Tell my mother, tell my father I've done the best I can to make them realize this is my life I hope they understand I'm not angry, I'm just saying...Sometimes goodbye is a second chance." Another song they did that is one of my favorites is called Sound of Madness. This song kind of relates to some people I used to hang out with in high school. I guess the only word I can think of is emo. My friends hated their lives. They thought they had it so bad. Nothing ever went their way. Well Brent makes the point you may think your life is terrible and you see suicides all over. I'm standing here before you and my life was hell and I'm still here to tell you about it. This chorus goes like this, "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?" The last band to perform was Staind. I had to ask my boyfriend at the end why he didn't really explain what his songs were about or why he hardly interacted with the crowd and he told me because he is a very sad person. If you look at alot of his lyrics they are depressing. This made sense when I got home and looked them up. He did a really good job though. He actually made it look like he was done performing then appeared in the center of the crowd where they had a stool and mic set up for him to perform some acoustic songs. One of my favorite songs he performed was called "Right Here." It's pretty self-explanatory he is basically asking the question Will you be here for me if I leave cause I will be here for you if you do. It sounds like it's to a girlfriend or wife saying they have their fights but at the end of the day he needs her by his side. Another song is called "Believe." It sounds like its directed towards love. He wants someone to believe in him. Life isn't always what it seems so he is making his choice and he wants them to hear his words and just believe in him. The last song that I really like by them is called "So Far Away." To me it seems that he feels he is in a dream that his music has touched so many people. This is his dream and he is sharing it with others. Basically it took them forever to come this far and they have made mistakes but he can forgive and he isn't ashamed of what they have become.