Jolt Country

OoE also has some lyrics which really SPEAK to me, man:

When I first came to this island
that I called by own name
I was happy in this fortress,
in my exile I remained
But the hours grew so empty
and the ocean sent her waves
In the figure of a woman
and she pulled me out to sea

Nice! And don't forget:

I like (blah blah blah), cuz it doesn't remind me of anything.

Things that I've loved, things that I've lost
Things I've held sacred, then I dropped,
I won't lie no more, you can bet
I don't wanna learn what I'll need...
...to forget.


That's TOTALLY me, man! It's like he KNOWS me! And READS my WEBSITES!

Since this Out of Exile thread has metomorphosed into the Mezmerize thread (which is fine, because one can never have too many System of a Down threads) I have an interesting note to make about the first song, the Soldier Side intro.

I've downloaded a version of it from teh intarnetz that has... synthasizer violas on it. They don't do very much, they mainly just very basically follow the top singing line. Yet, on the actual CD, there are no strings to be found.

My question is thus: if SOAD didn't actually put that on there... who the fuck would spend that much time on editing the song in such a basically pointless way? ...And how did they do it, because I could really use that kind of knowledge actually.

Sometimes the demos have things that are edited out of the final version. God Dethroned's 'Ravenous' started out with a sample on the demo of someone saying "Is that what you fucking call god?" from some apocalypse movie from the 1990's, which the final did not have. To it's detriment, as that sample was an awesome intro to the song, which now seems plain without it.

Or, someone with too much time on their hands did something dorky and posted it on the internet.