Randomly Mine: Pulse Ultra
Added 2020-05-01 13:01:07 +0000 UTC
Booting up Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2's very 2000's soundtrack, I was instantly struck with a memory. Dad really didn't like the song I always played on repeat, Pulse Ultra's "Build Your Cages" because of its moody lyrics.
Sacrifice everything you know, you love
The dream entices you to give yourself away
Sacrifice everything you know, you love
You miss the things you hated long ago
Irony is though, as a little kid, listening to these songs about loss, greed, and longing didn't at all shape me nor my life at the time. I was a happy, healthy, hungry kid who chased dreams without having to give anything up, missing things I hated, or sacrificing what I loved. All these things were alien to me, so the song was merely a headbanger which served my virtual highspeed antics.
Since then, I have dealt with various states of depression, made sacrifices, chased dreams, and miss things I previously looked down on. I don't listen to what I did as a kid nearly as much, I've grown since then and broadened my horizons. That growth, is why I see irony in my Dad's fear.
It wasn't the music that put me through its dark contents.
Merely life itself.
