The Offspring

I really like this band. I have been a fan of their music since around 1996 or 1997. I bought their CD because there was a song that I had heard and I like. Then I listened to the whole album over and over and I began to like all the song. The album was Smash. Then I started to listen to the older stuff. I found their energy and the music itself was very additive. Many times I have no idea what the lyrics are saying, but I visualize the voice as another instrument rather than what the words themselves are saying. I know some of the words of some of the songs but for the most part, the speed and energy gets the juice flowing. So far I have all their albums and there is not a song that I don't like. I listen to all of them.

What is interesting is that I was on offspring.com today, looking for an e-mail address to talk to someone about getting permission to use a song. I made a "Pullman Fire Commercial" using part of the song Mota. While I was there I saw they had lyrics to their songs. I typically don't like to look at the lyrics, sort of weird really. It is like I prefer to imagine what is being said rather than knowing. Remember that commercial when someone calls a helpline to find out what the words Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me"? It is fun to sort of imagine what you are hearing rather than knowing. In my mind I have an idea of what Paul Harvey looks like, so I was devastated when I saw a photo of him. When I listen to his show, I still imagine him looking like what I thought he looked like rather than what he does look like. In a messed up round about way, lyrics are the same for me.

So, I was a little surprised how Mota is about smoking pot and buying pot. And the song "I'll Be Waiting". But when you read the lyrics of the song as you listen, many time you get a more powerful message, and sometimes it will just totally ruin a song for you. I am worried that by knowing the lyrics of my favorite songs will ruin the song and I won't like it as much. But I was listening to I'll be Waiting, and reading the lyrics as I went along. That song has some power to it. Talking about thinking you have a faithful friend and in fact you don't at all. This made me think about one guy specifically and one other guy in general. One who I thought was my best friend, who I did everything with one day more or less dropped my like a bad habit. I still don't know why for sure. He claims we are still friends, but he has been too busy to hang out with me for the last 11 months. That is no joke. I think there is something more to it than being too busy. The other guy I was thinking of, well other guys, was Bryan, the fireman, and Garrett the softball guy.

Part of the lyrics to I'll Be Waiting:

Once I had a friend that I could count on
So I thought
Well so it seemed
But times of need are not enough
To prove your friendship to me now
Once I saw a face that I believed in
But a mask was all there was
So who wears the masks and who wears the faces
Well I guess I'll never know

But as I stand here alone in a room full of people
With nothing to say
Beer on their minds, and smoke in the air
Call them friends but they just don't care

Friend for life
Such shallow words for broken minds
Show me a friend for life
Cause I'll be waiting for that day to arrive
When I'll feel alive
I'll be waiting for that day

I really like this part
Once I saw a face that I believed in
But a mask was all there was

I feel that way about the guy who I thought was my best friend. I will have to update my blog one day with a tale about my best friend.