The Approaching Curve-Rise Against

[ti:The Approaching Curve] [ar:Rise Against] [al:The Sufferer And The Witness] [00:01.10]Rise Against [00:02.65]The Approaching Curve [03:24.65][02:57.81][02:24.30][01:57.41][00:51.83][00:05.43] [00:13.69]The music blared with a calming frequency. [00:16.11]The speakers gently seeped the sounds of ambient keyboards and light percussion, [00:20.09]Creating a seductive soundtrack to our midnight drive through curtains of blackness. [00:23.97]The windows were cold to the touch, reflecting the icy conditions in our immediate extremity. [00:28.74]Salt stains and fingerprints littered the glass, and streets with melted snow cascaded down its length. [00:33.98]The music pulsed louder, yet gentle, like the far away squeal of a pot of boiling water. [00:39.23]The skyline was glowing faintly with vague hints of an impending dawn. [00:43.16]The car raced along a painfully straight stretch of road, [00:45.98]And she hadn’t so much as turned the steering wheel two degrees in the last twenty minutes, [00:49.87]Nor had we spoken. [01:58.33][00:53.01]As we were, so perfect ,so happy. [00:58.88]They'll remember, only our smiles 'cause that’s all they’ve seen. [03:11.49][02:11.44][01:05.70]Long since dried, when we are found, are the tears in which we had drowned. [03:18.05][02:58.39][02:17.97][01:12.53]As we were, so perfect, so happy. [01:19.15]“Why are you doing this?” she spoke as if not expecting a response. [01:22.79]Her voice penetrated the still air of our speechless drive, so suddenly that my heart had jumped. [01:27.80]“I’m not doing anything,” I said, but I didn’t even believe that myself. [01:31.49]“This is what’s best, for me, for you, for us or maybe just for me,” I thought, [01:36.92]As a tear formed in the pit of her eye. The music poured through the speakers [01:40.61]And we were losing ourselves in the cadence. She looked down momentarily and closed her eyes [01:45.78]For a bit longer than a standard blink. Then she was crying. Then she was shouting. [01:50.27]Then I was shouting, now pouring confessions, having no answers, or solutions, [01:55.41]We barely even knew the questions. [02:04.03]They’ll remember, only our smiles 'cause that’s all they’ve seen. [02:38.34]Don’t put me under ground, I was meant for a life somewhere else. [02:46.03]Please Love give me the wheel before both of our hearts you will steal tonight. (Will steal tonight.) [03:04.61]They'll remember, only your smiles 'cause that’s all they’ve seen. [03:24.85]Our cracking voices became part of the music. [03:27.21]The car pressed on faster through the night. As our voices lowered, [03:30.73]The cadence again overtook the air. [03:32.35]Up ahead there was a curve approaching. [03:34.34]She made no indications of slowing.