I love this song, in particular, one of the more uplifting tracks with a really dancey guitar melody. I've been checking out "On the Impossible Past," which the newest LP from the Scranton-bred pop-punk group, and it's incredibly authentic, incredibly defeated. Really powerful chords, dark-hearted lyrics and equally fitting bridges...really into the style of the lead vocalist who has a unique drawl that reminds me a little of something 90s. They manage to sound drunken and thrashy without sacrificing a literary license, a balance I must applaud.
Something about this album makes me miss home, then I remember how badly I wanted to leave home before I wound up here. Fuck it all.
"I am the pain that beats through your temples
Every morning when you wake up.
I am the boy with alcohol poisoning
From all the parties Chris was throwing
That summer they took us in
Like every other American
For getting drunk around back of the Lion's Club
Waiting for the shitty bands to finish up.
And some kids played hacky sack,
while the others just got high.
It's not hard to fall for a waitress
When you both smoke, smoke the same cigarettes
You'll get seated as diners or lovers
You'll get the check as friends for the better
You'll carve your names into the Paupack Cliffs
Just to read them when you get old enough to know
that happiness is just a moment
So I'm marching up to your gates today
To throw my lonely soul away
'Cause I don't need it
You can take it back
So I'm marching up to your gates today
To throw my lonely soul away
'Cause I don't need it
You can take it back
And they will make examples out of us
Like when they caught you in the CVS parking lot
But I fed the liars
Everything I got in my cabinet brain
of canned thoughts
Everything I've got
It was everything I've got
In my cabinet brain
So I'm marching up to your gates today
To throw my lonely soul away
'Cause I don't need it
You can take it back
Yeah I don't need it
You can take it back"
~Gates
The Menzingers, On the Impossible Past
