i'm willing to break myself, to shake this hell from everything i touch

and now i'm static
as your sky is turning purple and gray
i'm learning that the further that i crawl
the farther that i fall, is that ok?

break myself from the soco album north was not one of my favorite songs when the album came out. i tended to skip over the non-hypercatchy songs and go for songs like space and 21 and invincible. but more and more, i feel like this song is probably the best song on the album (if not w/in the top 3 best songs). it has become my anthem, one that i can sing inside my head and feel energized. motivated. like i should be ready to conquer the world.

i remember reading that andrew said north was a very tense album. it was written in a short period of time, and you can FEEL it in the song. you can feel the desperation, the frustration, the hopelessness of it all.. and then he breaks into the chorus and you feel like you can overcome whatever it is that's holding you back. but it also points out the danger of being so passionate... though i would argue that perhaps we need to be more dangerous, that maybe we need have more passion when we take action.