Open up the Fountainhead...

Well, to say that an update to this blog on my part is a bit overdue would be an understatement, as I’m providing the lyrical content for every song on this upcoming record aside from our opening track “Wolf Pack,” which was written by Jeremy. And I certainly would have updated sooner if it weren’t for the fact that I don’t have any regular access to the internet and finally just emailed this to Jeremy, using the filtered internet I have at work, for him to post up here.
So now it’s been over a year since we’ve recorded last and I’ll be the first to say that it’s long overdue, though at this point looking at the songs we’ve produced and what we’re about to record, I can say that the time was almost necessary. We’ve all certainly grown up a lot since the last recording and are all at a fairly different place in our lives. Our songs, as you will very soon see, will definitely reflect that. In my own respect I’ve grown more into my own self sufficiency and expanded and grown significantly in my philosophical and political perspectives. This will be incredibly apparent upon examining the lyrical content of the record which, while not a concept album, is certainly thematically driven.
Much of this comes from my recent discovery of the works of Ayn Rand. First I read The Fountainhead and then graduated to Atlas Shrugged and then Anthem. Her books and Objectivist philosophy made a profound impact on my life as I’ve always been an individualist and in more recent years increasingly Libertarian. These books took these leanings to a whole new level, gave them clarity and even stronger definitions and convictions than were already to begin with. Ayn Rand is considered to be one of the mothers of the modern Libertarian party and her works certainly helped to nurture my own philosophical perspectives. Her works made such an immediate impression on me that I wrote our own song which I entitled Fountainhead while I was only reading the introduction to the book. I hadn’t even made it into the story yet. I’ve since been avidly recommending the books to anyone who’ll listen to me for longer than a second or two. To better illustrate the lyrical direction of this new record I’m including the lyrics to our song Fountainhead which I believe hardest hits to the core of much of the message of this record. Please take the time to read it and share your thoughts with me. I’d love to hear your responses. - Josiah

Fountainhead

Whatever happened to the dreams you held as a child?
Were they all smothered out under the sands of time?
You gave an ear to the people’s degrading cry,
And all the while you let your ambitions die.
You pushed everything that you cared for aside,
As your soul bent and broke under the force of the tide.
But I refuse to surrender each day that passes,
To the rolling blind inertia of the masses.
Refuse to be dissolved into the greater whole.
Fueled by the raging furnace within my soul.
Though I stand to face a much greater force,
In so doing I might find that I can change its course.
I can change the course.
I will change the course.
If only you can rediscover that forgotten drive,
You might discover what it is to truly be alive.
Just open up the Fountainhead you’ve always known,
And let spring forth those creations that are your own.
If only you can rekindle that flame in you again,
You might join a pantheon of truly great men.
Become that Fountainhead.