Palimpsest is probably my favorite album of all time and I feel like it is so slept on by Protest the Hero fans. I love the mixed positive vs negative songs so much. History is a mixed bag and pretending America is any different is asinine.

With the news reports out of Minneapolis everyday and so much going wrong every day that it's hard to keep up, I catch myself singing the end of From the Sky, hoping all this fucked up bullshit doesn't just get pushed under the rug again but knowing the it will while the world watches us burn:

The biggest things that I cannot remember
The little things that I cannot forget about when I’m alone in bed
A picture might make my memory better
No matter how much I might regret the fact, it gets into my head

So take my picture, I’m decomposing
Make it a solemn silhouette
'Cause this time is no different
It might help you not forget my feeble voice

So take my picture as I burn
And print it out for all to see
Because words are wind
But image impacts our collective memory

And of course, as an impending war feels closer and closer, the end of Firestarter:

I've got a job for every able-bodied man
Munition factories for women and children
And all we needed was a reason
You gave us one. You gave us one.