Song Of The Week - December 26

Hope everyone had a good Christmas, and are now enjoying the day before Boxing Day Sales hahaha! A week has come and gone, and now it's time for another Song Of The Week. We're changing the ante this week with a fairly rockin' song... don't know, you might have heard it already.

Fight Inside - Red, Innocence & Instinct (2/10/09)

"Enemy/familiar friend/My beginning and my end/Knowing truth/Whispering lies/And it hurts again."

Fight Inside is the single from Red's new album, due out in February 2009. And it definitely has a darker edge to it. Fight Inside is a song about the endless inner struggles within ourselves, and how we battle so hard against the evil inside of us. It makes me think how... strange it is, that equal amounts of darkness and light can live inside of us. How one can praise and curse in the same breath... Perhaps this is because of our spiritual selves and our earthly selves, one side representing good, and the other side, the polar opposite.

The instrumentation accents a dark, almost desolate landscape... it's hard to explain, but the combination of orchestral elements, minor key, and atmospheric effects paint a vivid picture of a war waging within someone's heart. The lyrics and music are a tight fit together.

It is a fairly dark song, I won't lie about that. But it is a necessary reminder for us all. We have two sides, each one fighting for control. Which one do you let control you?

Fight Inside - http://www.mediafire.com/?dycboznjzm1