The Story behind "Blinding Epiphanies"

This band has a theme. The lyrics I write are meant to fit that theme. Up to this point, I've been happy with how the lyrics have come out to do so. I figured this would make naming the EP relatively easy....just go through the 4 songs we picked out and maybe find a good lyric or idea that sums everything up.

Should be cake.

50 proposed names and multiple e-mail wars later, someone took a dump on the cake (probably Chito, since he craps so much).



Keep telling yourself that one pal.

Just like we don't agree with Chito's pink shirt rationale, we couldn't agree on an EP title. No single title fit the ideas behind all of the songs.

I couldn't find any lyrics from the EP that worked as a title, so I started looking through our other songs. When reading over one of our b-sides, called "A Telling Departure," the opening lyrics jumped right out at me:

"An enigma has faded
exposed at the seams
the illusion derailed
by a dark epiphany"

"Dark epiphany" is what stood out to me. Each one of these songs is about a realization, and it might be a realization that comes from a dark place.

After discussing with Al and Chito, they liked it, but thought "dark" didn't quite do it. I discussed it with a few other people and one friend said my lyrics reminded him of this analogy:

"We all live in a cave deep in the mountains, standing by a fire that we believe is true light (truth). Some of us wander looking for answers and as we get further from the fire, it gets pitch black. While some turn back, others move forward. When you first see the true light (real truth), it's blinding and painful. At this point even more people turn back, but a very few go forward and enter the real light and find themselves in the real world"

I really like this analogy, because it really did fit. That sparked "Blinding Epiphanies" - then this pic (minus the added text) came up on the first page of a photo site we are using, and it basically sealed it.



Thanks go out to I AM THE PROFESSOR for the analogy, and to Chito for taking yet another round of blog abuse. Maybe we'll title our b-sides "The Defecation Chronicles" as a tribute to his fast-food eating ways.