“Not Dead Yet” is the first single from Skillet’s drummer Jen Ledger and her new solo project, LEDGER.
Jen told Loudwire the song is about overcoming one’s hardest challenges and showing the world that you are strong. She wrote this because of the anxiety and panic attacks that had suddenly started...
[Verse 1]
Called to the ring
Taking me round by round
It hurts and it stings
Taking me down, down, down
You think that you caught me
I can hear you taunt me
Fractured and I'm falling down
My enemy is watching me bleed
[Chorus]
But I'm not dead yet
So watch me burn
Go on trying, lying, you're so sure
I may be broken
But I'm not done
I'll go on fighting, while there's breath in my lungs
'Cause I'm not dead yet
No, I'm not dead yet
[Verse 2]
You wait for the day
That I'll be counted out
You stand at my grave
Already breaking ground
But I don't think you know me
There's a side you don't see
Been to hell and made it out
My enemy, I'll watch you bleed
[Chorus]
But I'm not dead yet
So watch me burn
Go on trying, lying, you're so sure
I may be broken
But I'm not done
I'll go on fighting, while there's breath in my lungs
'Cause I'm not dead yet
No, I'm not dead yet
[Bridge]
I'm still awake
I won't go away
It's gonna take more than you can bring
Calling my name
Heaven is calling my name
[Chorus]
But I'm not dead yet
So watch me burn
Go on trying, lying, you're so sure
I may be broken
But I'm not done
I'll go on fighting, while there's breath in my lungs
'Cause I'm not dead yet
No, I'm not dead yet
[Outro]
I'm still awake
I won't go away
It's gonna take more than you can bring
Not Dead Yet was written by Seth Mosley & Jen Ledger.
Not Dead Yet was produced by Seth Mosley & X O’Connor.
LEDGER released Not Dead Yet on Fri Apr 06 2018.
I was onstage and I started panicking onstage and it was like a fear that made me want to give up. (…) It was just such a defeating moment, but I got offstage and I was sitting in a room with Korey and I just unloaded.
I told her that I was just really struggling and I wasn’t sure why these feeling...
I would say “Not Dead Yet” is definitely the theme of my heart, because it was the moment I felt the lowest. It came out of a time when I actually was having panic attacks from anxiety – and I’ve never been through anything like that before – so it felt really disorienting and like ‘What is going on...