Tunnels
I’m really into this song “Tunnels” by Angels and Airwaves. To be fair I think it’s mainly just Tom now. The rest of the band seems to have left him or maybe he just fired everyone and decided to do this shit on his own. I know he partnered up with a DJ for this album “Dream Walker”.
The first times I heard the album were a disappointment to me. I only liked the 2 singles from it “The Wolfpack” which I fucking love, and “Paralyzer” which is almost as badass. The rest of the album seems not rock enough for me. There’s less guitar in this album which was a bit of a turn off. So I didn’t bother listening to it anymore.
It’s taken me a while to get over the fact that the guitar is getting used a lot less in music now, but I’m slowly working my way through it. Change is fucking hard.
The only reason I decided to get back into this album was because I saw the 14min movie that came along with the album. Poet Anderson. In that movie, Tom uses several songs (mainly instrumentals). Tunnels being one of them. He used it brilliantly with the sequence in the film and I was drawn to it. I instantly fell in love.
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There’s this verse that I love so much,
I’d thank God, but then what is he for?
’Cause I left a few hard calls at his front door
It does pose the question of what exactly is the purpose of God. Why is he there taking all the fame and glory. All the praises. And we have to be thankful for all the bad shit that happens because it will make us stronger.
He made us. Did he purposely make us weak so we have to rely on him to save us from whatever evil he’s let roam in this fucked up world. Is there really anything we can do to make it any less fucked up, or is this just a result of humans being humans?
No that can be so, can it? I think back to the era where the dinosaurs roamed the earth. Did any of those carnivores give a small fuck about the animals they killed? Are we any different from them? The only difference I can see is they never did anything to cause the world to kill them all, the earth did it on its own. It got hit hard and went into panic mode and killed shit in the process.
Us on the other hand, we seem to be tempting the earth to strike back or call it quits and do a hard reset on it self erasing us with it. Either way, we can’t be doomed to the same fate of our long eradicated creatures, or are we?
