![]() ![]() ![]() And it's continued to get worse as the decades have gone on, and now it's ridiculous. But it was a strange thing, to go from walking around with a chip on my shoulder, ready to get into a confrontation at any moment, to this realization that people like me, which was this uncomfortable place for me to be. "This song is the second single off my album, The Grand Loss & Legacy."ĭS: For me personally, it was this bizarre moment where I went from being an outcast to broadly accepted, even though to the moms and dads at that point I was still a poster child for what was wrong with rock 'n' roll. "I think given the moment in our country, in the height of a very contentious election season, that this song/video will be poignant to anyone engaged in our national discourse. "The video portrays a range of recent issues that threaten American liberties-from as far back as The Patriot Act, to the current Black Lives Matter movement-and shows these issues through the disbelieving witnessing eyes of a child growing up in New York City. I am more fearful of an internal fraying of our liberties than any externally threat to them. The Patriot Act passage after September 11th-in response to them that could. I had the thought at the time that it was not the occasional-and inevitable-terror attacks that we will endure as a nation that could ever bring us down, but government overreach and the clamping down on liberties-e.g. "My song 'Death On The Liberty Line' was inspired in the aftermath of the Boston bombing attacks that took place during the marathon of 2013. ![]()
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