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Story:

Last summer, Emperor X performed for a small crowd in my friend Derrick’s basement, in Connecticut. My friend Adam performed, too.  One of Adam’s songs that night contained the lyric, “Time is a disease.”  Chad (Emperor X) told us, later, warmly, that he has a song which expresses the exact opposite belief.  It is this song.

Chad sings:

But time’s not a disease /
It’s an ordered state, it’s a firm substrate /
It’s a shocking, priceless wasteland /
and it’s where we’ll raise our kids and get lost and defy.

“Defiance” does a lot of things songs don’t usually do:

It challenges your apathy
It feeds you glass
It suffers (with you / for you / when you’re gone)
It makes the invisible visible
It challenges your hope
It hopes you’ll have some left
It squeezes thorns and shakes your hand
Most of all, it says: keep going, it’s hard sometimes but, we should keep going.

(buy - extremely limited, should have sold out already)