Story Behind The Song

The story behind this song is focusing on the prior 3 or 4 months with my band, Star 69, late one night. I couldn't get any sleep and I just had to vent out everything I was feeling at that time about my present situation and really ask the honest question to myself of whether this was really going to work out or not.

Song Description

This is a song about artists or bands that are trying to make it in music and have to face the same type of scenes every night, while deep in the back of their minds they wonder of they are ever really going to make it to become worth anything in music, or if they'll be just another lost soul trying to make it in music that no one really cares about.

Lyrics

Lost Cause
Verse 1:
Thoughts gouge my mind as I try to breathe
I wonder if the world ever thinks of me
These insecurities are all in my head
Hidden from the public?s eye of scrutiny
Pre-Chorus 1:
And though I try to shut the pain away
It always rises for another day
And though I keep my face unchanged
It hurts inside, I?m drowning in the rain
Chorus:
Here we go again jamming to the same old song
At bars all night, no money no light, yet they make me feel that I belong
Here we go again smiling in the same applause
Am I a man with hope or just a bum broke going no where except these night bars?
A lost cause
Verse 2:
This microphone always smells the same
The time on this road gets longer everyday
Even this rush on stage is watering down
Yet I?ve got to keep going, this is all that I can do to stick around
Pre-chorus 2:
I?m burning out, this smoke clouds my mind
Yet I know without this I?ll just fall behind
And I?ll be gone and who will care
That?s why I keep on, I?m going to take you there
Chorus
Verse 3:
Will it change my destiny?
If I put down this guitar, will it set me free?
I need to know ?cause the time ticks on
But if I?ve got to go, I?ll still finish this song
Chorus