Against Me! are one of a few bands that really make me hurt. I mean a good hurt, deep down. Songs that hit me in a way I can’t explain. That make my chest feel like it can’t contain my heart. Their early stuff seems to make horizons open up and scream with potential. There’s an emotion locked inside those songs that wants to smash its way out every time I play them. I don’t know how many other people feel that, but I’d like to think a few others do. Maybe it’s the place I was at when I first heard them, maybe it’s the impact that band has had on where I am in my life right now, maybe it’s just that searing honesty that seems to tear its way through each lungful of air. Either way, it still hurts.
…and i cannot help but hold on to a handful of times when what was spoken was a revolution in itself, and what we were doing was the only thing that mattered.