One fucking weekend. Is that too much to ask?
know your way down
your music, your town.
I'm Heidi.
Someones old friend, someones lover, someones sister, someones daughter.
“ Everything that happens in your life, becomes who you are. You can’t be happy with who you are until you can accept everything you’ve been through for what it is - your complexion. Fuck yeah we did it. With all of our hearts. But you can’t help but live like you’re never going to die. Somehow the middle makes itself clear. Lucidity isn’t always a cure, and sedation is almost never the right medication. But somewhere in the middle, somewhere I don’t really care to pinnpointatthispoint, there is a healthy balance.
Jacob William Hoggard (via lostandshipwrecked)
(Source: aheartbreakingwork.blogspot.ca, via coastal-words)
“ It’s not about the way we fall, it’s how we hit the ground
Jacob Hoggard (via hed-o-ley)
(via coastal-words)
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I found this in a old nexopia blog I posted in 2006.
HEDLEY TRACK-BY-TRACK, BY JACOB HOGGARD:
Villain:
“If you are in a relationship, the road can be a perilous place. This song is about
the temptations on tour, namely girls you meet, from city to city. Ok, fine. Groupies! Harlots and scandalous women! It’s almost like a protest song, like, “You’re so hot, but nope I’m sorry, I’m stronger than that. This is one of the last songs we wrote for the album.”
On My Own:
“I wrote this when I moved out of my parents’ house when I was 17. My
mom is this firecracker Italian who was really overprotective, and so the song is about not having to live by my parents rules and also how many times I would be like, ‘Uh, goodnight!’ shut my bedroom door and open the window and jump out and meet my friends. The keyboards are influenced by the Cars.”
Trip:
“I grew up in church. My family is Pentecostal Christian, but I was stealing and
breaking into cars and I went through a raver phase. So I wasn’t living a very appropriate life to be singing songs in church youth group, so I decided to stop since I wasn’t living a life where I should be telling people about religion. It’s a very earnest, kind of power ballad. I wrote it on piano.”
Street Fight:
“I wrote this after I had just finished with Idol and, well, I guess I wasn’t
embarrassed, but I definitely had mixed feelings. So this song is like, ‘Yeah yeah, I did that, but this band is what I’m doing now, and if you don’t like it, you can blow me.’ I went thru a short period where I was threatening to street fight people – but nobody ever took me up on it.”
321:
“This song is about one of the engineers who worked on our album. He was living
with this girl, just as roommates, but they ended up hooking up and she got crazy on him and he couldn’t get rid of her because she lived there too! So he was stuck in that situation. He was losing his mind. We love to play this live.”
Gunnin’:
“A friend of my little sister was anorexic and I read this article about how
much of a mental disorder it is and how it makes someone distort how they see
themselves so much. It’s not a song about, ‘I hate the way you make me throw up!’ But it’s about people who don’t feel perfect, and will do anything to feel love.”
Sink or Swim:
“Oh this one is about a bitch of a girl. She dumped my friend and he was
really bummed out. She was the kind of girl where everyone wondered what her problem was, way before she broke up with him. It’s a more screamy weamy song for us. We aren’t a punk band or a screaming band, but it’s fun to try different stuff. And it’s fun to
scream.”
Johnny Falls:
“I was inspired by the sorry state of schools in the US but also in Canada.
Just recently a bunch of Canadian kids, in seventh grade, were arrested for conspiring a murder. So Johnny is a young boy with a gun. The lyrics sort of take a devil’s advocate stand, from his perspective, like, ‘I won’t hate myself to be loved by you.’”
Saturday:
“This is my favorite song on the record. It’s a really important song to me. I wrote it when I first moved out of my parent’s house and I was living at the boarding
house, which was also a foster care house. There was this sweet young girl, about 12 or 13 years old, and her mom used to come around and screw around her head. One night, they had a horrible fight and I was listening to her mom shoot her down like she was filth. She broke my heart that night, listening to her cry in the other room.”
Sugar Free:
“When I was in my teens, I was really good at romancing girls who would
never date me. Not exactly like Screech, but close. Like I would walk them home, bring a flower, write a song and then ask, wanna date? And the answer was always no. This is one of the first songs I wrote on electric guitar.”
I Don’t Believe It:
“I had a girlfriend a couple of years ago who cheated on me and this
song is about that shock I had because it was just so out of the blue. When it happened, I was totally thrown; I actually thought that the world was upside down for a second. I think the way it ends – with gang vocals – is really appropriate.”
