DRAXSEN MUSIC
Chronic Pain 05/12/2010
 
I have reserved a special place in my heart to dedicate solely to this topic. It has made me fight for every day I live and made DRAXSEN a growing force. It has brought me closer to my friends and help identify who my true friends are using the old saying, what doesn’t kill you will only make you stronger. The songs help me deal with the things we face each day, e.g. "you’re a scab", "you’re doing it because you’re too lazy to work", "it’s because of people like you that all the prices go up because businesses insurance goes up and there's nothing wrong with you", "just tough it out mate be a real man". I've had an aching back for years and it hasn't stopped me! These are just a few examples we face from day to day, but the one thing that gets under my skins is that I have to prove on an almost daily basis that I'm sick. I do have a spinal injury and I’m not just faking it for easy money. I do have the same rights as a criminal. I'm guilty until proven innocent. No one sees the pain behind your eyes, you’re a victim. No one is there when grieve for the life you have lost and no one understands the loss I’ve had.

I also know that many of my friends have tried to understand. But nothing can ever replace the feeling of not being able to do the things my kids love to do with me. My family are big on water sports; I used to do the annual bridge to bridge 5 km swim for example!  I know that I’m heaps better off than most and I’m not having a sook. All I’m trying to do is raise your awareness of what that person’s life must be like next time you stroll past that guy in the wheel chair, or that girl who is severely disfigured from a fire burn.

OK, before we go any further, yes there are those that play the system but they are easily identified and besides I’m not coming front that point of view. The people I’m referring to and want to help have a real tough time in the early stages of their new found limitations and that is the grief that they have to go through. That grief turns into depression and suicidal tendencies. Oh and it’s not just them it’s their family and friends as well. It really is just like someone dying in the family. It is a very stressful period and for some it takes longer than others, but really you never really get over it. You just don’t focus on it as much. You have to find new ways to occupy your mind and with that business of life you start to get your own life back.

On DRAXSEN’s new album, which is due out next month, I purposely have two songs as instrumentals. My reasoning behind this is simple. By reading the title of the piece and listening to the music, I believe you will be able to understand more about how we feel and what we have gone through. Grieving is the first instrumental piece we arranged to help us with our grief. When you really listen you can hear the tear drops as they drip onto the snare drum and the sizzle as they drip on the strings of the electric guitars. I have always proclaimed that music is a form of art. You need to look deeper into it and feel the emotions the artist was going through at the time the song was being constructed.

The second item I am being a little more cryptic about. We decided to call it “The Cowardly Few Part II: “Who’s laughing now”. Again it’s an instrumental piece and I pencilled it when I was, we’ll let’s say hospitalised. I have no doubt that these people whom I am speaking of are power hungry and mad to boot. If it takes five grown men to remove one person from a wheel chair to the floor and pin them down, well the song says it all. Who Laughing now!

 


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