“The loss of my virginity, the potential loss of relationship, and the realization that our band has and will change after our first album. “It’s a tri-fold story that parallels three ‘firsts’ for me,” explains Hull. Virgin appears next, a four and a half minute rock opera that looks back at the road that led the band to the present. Bite your veins/ bleed your pain/ into me. The raw and masterful April Fool is next, an exquisite dynamite blast of big guitars, giant drums and soaring harmonies that, ironically, “was my first attempt at a love song on this album.” This moves directly into Pale Black Eye, a power-chord powder keg that builds from controlled discourse (“The song is sung three ways: Me to God, me to my wife, and God to me”) to earthshaking confession, a rock and roll bloodletting. “In this song, the innocence is leaving,” says Hull. It’s my darkest hour, in a sense.” The third track, Pensacola, is a meditation on where the band has taken him and where he thinks he may be heading. This is followed by the hard driving and rich Mighty, which Hull describes as sounding “like the Apocalypse.
The lyric I’d go out in public if nobody ever asked perfectly sums up just how hard it is to lead a normal life once your pain becomes public.
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It begins with an honest confession, carefully full of vivid detail. Each track dealing with a different aspect of his life such as the opening track Deer sets a simmering and descriptive starting-point to Hull’s journey.
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