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The Glass Winter

from The Empty Chair - EP by Chasing the Sky

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Chasing the Sky is: Kevin VanAntwerpen, Ryan Dekkinga, Brenden Stark

Additional instrumentation by Dana Mika, Mike Ritz, and Tim Alexander.

Special thanks to Bethany Archer.

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LYRICS:
All heroes die eventually.
The world is cold, its heart and soul are slowly spinning gears.
And the worst to lose a child:
beneath the ice are the vapors of heaven and hell.

You're laid on these flowers for the fires to devour,
you disintegrate, and you fade.

A mother waits at the door,
watching for her son, for a boy who won't be coming home.
And neither god nor the devil are going to break the rules,
going to rescue you.

The freeway is king tonight.

You're laid on these flowers for the fires to devour,
you disintegrate, and you fade ...
but burn like a beacon to light the horizon.
The night is bright as day - we're awake

And the machine, it carries on.
It never breaks, it will never pause.
Not for the tears of men or gods.
Not for the death of an only son.

(All my life, these TV lights were burning brighter than the sun.)

You're laid on these flowers for the fires devour.
You disintegrate and you fade.
(Burn it down)
You burn like a beacon to light the horizon.
The night as bright as day - we're awake.

credits

from The Empty Chair - EP, track released October 1, 2010
TRIVIA:

* The band was seeking a title for the song when Brenden misheard a friend saying "glass winner" during a drinking game and immediately thought "The Glass Winter" would make a fantastic song title -- given the lyrical subject matter about death during winter and the fragility of life, the name stuck.

* The song is about the death of a Michigan high school student on Christmas Eve, who had hit a patch of black ice and rolled into a ditch. Temperatures had been just barely above freezing that week, but it was enough to melt the snow and fill the ditch with water. The student drowned.

* The screams during the bridge are Kevin's first vocal performance.

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Chasing the Sky Grand Rapids, Michigan

Chasing the Sky is a pop-rock band from Grand Rapids, Michigan that you may have heard thanks to Glee, Chevrolet, or Western Digital. The band’s music has been called “well-crafted” and “terrific” (John Sinkevics, The Grand Rapids Press), “Impressive” (West Michigan Noise), and a musical effort that you “should not miss” (Melanie Coker, Behind the Velvet Curtain). ... more

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