Tag: healing
Jerry Cantrell: “Psychotic Break” from Degradation Trip
by Ari Koinuma on Mar.12, 2010, under (Heavy) Music Heals, Pensive Rock
I feel the fear take on
Reside in the shadow, thrive where most won’t go
Adrift, I curse my gift
And hope you’ll never know
Talk about catharsis — this blistering opening track from Jerry Cantrell’s epic Degradation Trip has been my go-to track for inciting a good cry, when I feel too much venom building up inside. Slow and heavy, it elicits an image of funeral march to my mind, a slow walk to the darkest place in our hearts.
The lines that I particularly hit me are the last two above. I believe that we are given gifts — as in talents and abilities, but also opportunities to learn and grow. And with it sometimes comes growth pain — it’s not a necessary part of the process, but some of us get in the habit of hurting more than we need to.
But we hide our pains, pretending to the outside world that everything is OK, we’re all put together. When inside, it’s filled with stifled scream, barely contained….
The healing begins with allowing us to feel the hurt, to actually scream in pain.
Sometimes, it really, really hurts…. and it’s OK to say that it hurts. Let it out.
So that it will not live in you any more.
