ERIC CLAYTON “A THOUSAND SCARS” | On resurfacing and showing love

 

    Some artists appear in our lives to bring and make difference. Eric Clayton was one of them for me when his former and original band, “Saviour Machine”, was first presented to me. His remarkable voice and provoking lyrics were always a differential until, after the release of “Legend III:I” (2001), he disappeared. A disc named “Legend III:II” popped up in 2011 although the band don’t recognise it as official, since they only started recording but have never actually finished it, and ended up considered just as incomplete demo tracks, recorded in studio and released without the band’s approval.

    New information was released to the public about him around August in 2011, precisely to comment on this “unfinished album’s case”, but no original content was out until the one from 2020, when Eric Clayton returned announcing an album of new songs... and what a wonderful album! This which starts saying that love can exist even if there are barriers, and that we must fight to surpass them. It is the single which announced the album, and the song couldn’t have come at a better moment, for the global pandemic was at its peak in 2020 in many countries.

    Following-up, Eric Clayton tells us a little of his own history, that is, his personal problems and how, in a certain way, he did manage to overcome them. It’s the concrete representation from the “Thousand Scars”, as the album title suggests, since scars are remembrance of the pains we’ve been through but marked so we never forget and become better human beings.

    It’s possible to connect with Eric while he sings:

·         The Space Between Us

In the space between us there is love, there is light. In the distance, it speaks to us, it reaches us, dancing in the night.

·         In The Lines

It’s all in the lines of the fateful receiver. It’s all in the mind of the pain and the healer. It’s all in the eyes of the faithless believer. It’s all of our lies… It’s all of our lives in the lines.

·         Chasing Monsters

I’m frightened when the sadness calls my name. I’m trapped inside the pain of fear and rage. I’m hanging on for mercy, I’m praying. As I cling to the stage… my scars remain.

·         American Whore

Tear down the vacant messiah, the fallen nation in rust. Burn down the sacred asylum in lust. They sold us out, they sold “in god we trust”
(reference to the sentence in the American banknote)

·         The Greatest of These

Love… love is a whisper, not a shout… not a shout. Hear… hear in my voice, as it rejoices in the sound.

It’s lyrics like these that make us feel closer to who’s singing. A bitter history that turns into hope, as we can listen on the last song:

“Love is the healer, love is the light. Love is in everything, everything right. Love isn’t hateful, love isn’t  blind. Love shall remain, love will survive. Love is alive.”

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Eric Clayton himself provided the explanation of every song in the band’s Instagram. You can check all links down below along with the link with all the album’s lyrics, and the links to listen to the album in its integrity.

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Links:

Eric Clayton on the unfinished album: http://www.metalstorm.net/events/news_comments.php?news_id=14420

Eric Clayton and the Nine’s Instagram with the song’s explanations in the pinned stories:  https://www.instagram.com/ericclaytonandthenine/

Album’s lyrics: https://genius.com/albums/Eric-clayton/A-thousand-scars

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Listen to the album on

Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com.br/albums/B087RB4MBM

Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/br/album/145046182

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4wNSv13hfbN0LLeRPRbUNw?si=7e6a798fe10a4ec6

Tidal: https://listen.tidal.com/album/139550607

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_maLnJm7zPK2t2ARIfcHfPQhM79bkZ7GJU

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OF MICE AND MEN “ANOTHER YOU” | Affection and Memory

 

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Take away all of this emptiness I feel

Cause I will never find another you 

                Hello and welcome to the Building A Memory. Here we care about music and their memories. Today’s song was a request made by my cousin, Pedro Duarte, even before the blog had this YouTube channel.

                “Of Mice and Men” is a Californian band which takes the book of same name, by John Steinbeck, as inspiration. The same has inspired some lyrics. Today’s song discussion embraces personal feelings and, sometimes, may be related to grieving someone. 

Take away all of this emptiness I feel

Cause I will never find another you 

                During this pandemic we’ve been living in since 2019/2020, it’s been even more difficult to know someone who hasn’t lost somebody who was loved. Maybe it was because of this virus which is plaguing or any other cause. It’s always sad to lose somebody and to feel that emptiness knocking at our doors. 

I still hear you in this house (whispering)

I still feel you in my bones (in these veins)

And like the portraits in the halls (can’t help but think)

I wish you were staring back at me (but you’re gone) 

                Many things may remind you of your loved ones and there won’t be another to substitute them. It’s okay to feel like that because you cared about this person and we were never meant to die (that was God’s original plan), so this is why losing someone hurts a lot. 

So I’ll carry you with me in my dreams, my memory

So I’ll carry you with me, you’ll always be in my memory 

                Remember the good times you’ve lived with your loved ones. Carry them in your heart, memories, and dreams.

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Read the lyrics here: https://genius.com/Of-mice-and-men-another-you-lyrics

Listen to the song on 

Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com.br/albums/B00RAZR8K8?trackAsin=B00RAZRD58
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/br/track/74238880
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1rXgIRASsPCwsLVw2csOTA?si=6016154255f040a8
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj93e2Z2EOc
YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=CDawrO-uAGg 

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BLACK SABBATH “BLACK SABBATH” | The existence of a spiritual world

 

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Big black shape with eyes of fire
Telling people their desire
Satan’s sitting there, he’s smiling
Watches those flames get higher and higher
Oh, no, no, please, God, help me!

 

Hello and welcome to the Building A Memory. Here we care about music and their memories. Today I want to bring a song from a band that pretty much shaped what heavy metal looks like. Also, I was inspired by a text I read in the blog “Cristianismo e Underground” written by Edy Marques. You can find the link in the description.

Black Sabbath is a British band that started in the end of the 60s and, with their sound, they’ve scared some people to the point of being considered Satanists. Today’s song, in particular, uses the “diabolus in musica”, which is a musical interval encompassed by three consecutive whole steps, and better known as tritone, that was considered evil during the medieval times and its usage was forbidden during that time.  The tritone was disliked because of its grating quality, which goes against the traditional purpose of music: harmony and beauty.

As we shall see, they do talk about the existence of a spiritual world but with a warning of dealing with the evil.

 

What is this that stands before me?
Figure in black which points at me

 

At some point in their lives, everyone has got in contact with a religion. Every religion, in some way, has something related to the spiritual world. The spiritual world is, basically, divided in two antagonistic sides: good and evil. I, as a professed Christian who attends the Presbyterian Church in Brazil, believe from the bottom of my soul in this existence.

Satan is real and he’s ready to tempt anyone who’s open-hearted to evil deeds. Although we all are sinners and far from perfection (we’re always making mistakes), believing and seeking for Jesus’s salvation and forgiveness, and pursuing a change of ways, is what distinguishes good from evil. If we don’t seek a transformation of life, we’ll be haunted.

 

Big black shape with eyes of fire
Telling people their desire
Satan’s sitting there, he’s smiling
Watches those flames get higher and higher
Oh, no, no, please, God, help me!

 

                If we don’t want to be haunted by the evil, we must repent from our sins and keep on asking God for help. He’s the only one able to alleviate our hearts and give us strength to carry on even when everything is difficult and complicated. That’s what Jesus said:

“I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome this world.” John 16.33


Is it the end, my friend?
Satan’s coming ‘round the bend
People running ‘cause they’re scared
The people better go and beware
No, no please, no

 

                It is never too late to seek God and find redemption. Do it now before it’s too late.

 

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Read the lyrics here: https://genius.com/Black-sabbath-black-sabbath-lyrics

“A Oração do Black Sabbath” (Black Sabbath’s prayer): https://cristianismounderground.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-oracao-do-black-sabbath.html

 

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Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com.br/albums/B073JZ5BTY?trackAsin=B073T5W6DY
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/track/143110908
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1udmPvJoBnqitbeYKKc9mc?si=581f2c271e1442f3
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKbi2Gfxgvc
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LEPROUS “BELOW” | Mind fields to look after

 

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Every single fear I’m hiding
Every little childhood memory
I bury

Hello and welcome to the Building A Memory. Here we care about music and their memories. Today I want to bring a song by one of my favourite modern bands: Leprous. They come from Norway and they have conquered a small piece in my heart with their very well written melodies and vocals.

Even though you may notice a gloomy air in their songs, it’s something deep to stop and think about. Today we will be looking into a song that talks about dealing with past feelings.

Every single fear I’m hiding
Every little childhood memory
I bury

Some people are open-hearted to everyone they feel a little bit involved with and are fond of, some don’t and, probably, this could be because of some past trauma. Hiding fears and traumas is something to worry about because it can generate problems in the future, or even in the present moment.

All of my stories are below
Beneath the surface cannot grow
Curled and naked I defer
To shaky thoughts all in a blur

Our mind is a battlefield. We accumulate everything we see, listen, and experience. Sometimes it’s easier to deal with all of this, sometimes not. Dealing with it in our minds requires emotional intelligence since a tired body can rest a night and wake up renewed while in the other hand a tired mind needs more than just a night to recover itself.

You’ve got to be open to treat your mind, seek professional help and, if it’s the case, accept taking some medicine to balance your body hormones to put you back in a healthy mind state.

Sitting on top of the façade
Built a tower to surpass
I can’t remember why I’m here
Only why I need to disappear

Our mind may become a dangerous environment if we don’t look after it. The thoughts we may produce can harm who we are and distort how we see and feel the world, and, in a “protective” way, we fake how we are feeling to others to evade a scenario in which we expose our hearts.

Don’t close yourself to the world. Don’t put yourself in a cocoon from where you can’t get out of. Even caterpillars, after entering this state, free themselves to a new and more beautiful life. Don’t put yourself in a below state.

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You can listen to this song and read the lyrics via the links below.

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 Read the lyrics here: https://genius.com/Leprous-below-lyrics

Listen to the song on:

Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com.br/albums/B07WWFRPGJ?trackAsin=B07WWG7M8B
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/track/738537602
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6rIwcMGcZtPdpi6U9llpb0?si=a848a229441e4f95
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nPwBSaJmgI
YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=zJrG0B3Pdm8

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DELIRIOUS? “KINGDOM OF COMFORT” | We don’t live in a kingdom of comfort

 

Few bands are as consistent as the “Delirious?” are. A British Christian worship/pop/rock group that started in the early 90s and announced their retirement in 2009. They were always true to what they sang. Even being a Christian band, their lyrics weren’t only focused on the “Jesus’ way”, because a life of examples, most of the time, speaks louder than words.

Their last studio album idea, “Kingdom of Comfort”, came after some visits they made to India and to the African continent. It’s an invitation and a challenge to us all, Christian or not, regardless our beliefs, to change our habits.

Save me
From the kingdom of comfort where I am king
From my unhealthy lust and material things
(Kingdom Of Comfort)

These are the words starting this album: a cry for help. We all know that everything we conquer in this perished world won’t follow us when we pass away. One of the most provoking songs ever written, because we tend to accumulate things without thinking about the consequences (I mentioned something resembling this in the blog post and video of the song “PERSONAL SHOPPER”).

You also find songs teaching what love is, songs that call social responsibility, and, being a Christian band, songs worshipping and showing God’s love, even when everything in life is difficult. You see lyrics like:

God is smiling over us tonight
Where hearts are broken love unites
God is smiling
(God Is Smiling)

Don't let what you own become a crown when you’re old
Don't sell up your soul to the glitter and gold
(Give What You’ve Got)

Love will lead me to your feet
Love won't pass me on the street
Love will look me in the eye
Love won't leave me here to die
So to your arms I'm gonna run
And escape what I've become
Love will find a better way, so they say
(Love Will Find A Way)

We turn the page, to a future just begun
If heaven is real then let our heaven become
Peace on earth, let it flow
We raise our voice where the colour's all but gone
Paint the world with redemption songs
Stir it up, let it flow
(Break The Silence)

Hope will come to those who wait
As the heart of heaven breaks
(All God’s Children)

Injustice, poverty, inequality… we’re surrounded by this. Sometimes there’s this question looming in the air “where’s God in all of this?”, and I answer: He’s in the hope inside the hearts and in the actions of those who try to make a better world, in which the human being itself brings destruction and evil.

The songs I mentioned earlier are my favourite in the album, as they are played, but the full album is a masterpiece. It’s like a Christian version of Radiohead mixed with U2, but with their own and strong characteristics.

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This album’s recommendation was a suggestion that one of my proof-readers, Vini, mentioned in a talk we had about our usual topic: music.

You can listen to this album in its integrity in the links in the description.

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Listen to the album on:

Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0159OICGK
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/album/10493554
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1BYWvJbwyFIVBUzo5IWiHL?si=200282a47e9c41c4
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kM09WTwdxHRTXk1j8IkzAAcKpp8w0Mve0
YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kM09WTwdxHRTXk1j8IkzAAcKpp8w0Mve0

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References:

https://genius.com/albums/Delirious/Kingdom-of-comfort

https://www.christiantoday.com/article/delirious.to.release.kingdom.of.comfort/17021.htm

https://www.titletrakk.com/music-interviews/delirious-kingdom-of-comfort-interview.htm