Thiswas the lead single from Mezmerize, the fourth System Of A Down album and first since Steal This Album! three years earlier. They had enough material for a double album, but decided to split the songs into two albums and release them six months apart, a strategy inspired by Quentin Tarantino, who released Kill Bill: Volume 1 in October 2003, then put out Kill Bill: Volume 2 six months later.
AchillesCome Down. [Verse 1] Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, come down. Won't you get up off, get up off the roof? You're scaring us and all of us, some of us love you. Achilles, it's not much but there's proof. You crazy-assed cosmonaut, remember your virtue. Redemption lies plainly in truth. Just humour us, Achilles, Achilles, come down.
AndI think exactly when you hit the nail on the head, where it's largely coming from a place of, "What do you want from me, so that I can be enough for you? So that I can be enough for me?"
Wherewere you when I was burned and broken While the days slipped by from my window watching And where were you when I was hurt and I was helpless 'Cause the things you say and the things you do surround me While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words Dying to believe in what you heard I was staring straight into the shining sun Lost in thought and lost in time While the seeds of
Ghosts 2022 track "Mary on a Cross" sounds like a love song. At first listen, you'll notice the lead singer is reflecting on a relationship that has appeared to have gone sour. "We were speeding together / Down the dark avenues / But besides all the stardom / All we got was blues," he sings. The lyrics continue to note that the lead singer
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