Ice Nine Kills
Ice Nine Kills
Ice Nine Kills
Ice Nine Kills
Ice Nine Kills
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Ice Nine Kills & Tyler Carter
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“Jonathan” was written about the band’s friend who’s suffering from Mitochondrial disease.
In a Reddit AMA, vocalist Spencer Charnas wrote:
Jonathan is our good friend and his sight is being slowly stolen from him by a terrible disease called mitochondrial disorder, you can check the song out/dona...
[Verse 1]
God has taken my eyes
If I see no reflection
How the hell do I know I'm alive?
As the darkness bleeds into my mind
The force that screams to give up
Is grave enough to carve my name into a stone
[Pre-Chorus]
Inspired by hope or defined by disease?
If you knew what it meant to be me
[Chorus]
Could you close your eyes and never say "never"?
Or would you call this the end of the road?
I'm running out of memories, a shell of what I used to be
As this curse drains the life out of me
[Verse 2]
God has taken my eyes
Yet blind faith couldn't kill me
It just is what it is between him and I
I've made sense of my senses
And found my defenses internally
This is what sets me free
[Pre-Chorus]
Inspired by hope or defined by disease?
If you knew what it meant to be me
[Chorus]
Could you close your eyes and never say "never"?
Or would you call this the end of the road?
I'm running out of memories, a shell of what I used to be
As this curse drains the life out of me
[Bridge]
Even if I never see again
I know I will breathe again
With the strength of a thousand men
I won't let this be my end
Even if I never see again
I know I will breathe again
With the strength of a thousand men
I won't let this be my end
[Pre-Chorus]
Inspired by hope or defined by disease?
If you knew what it meant to be me
[Chorus]
Could you close your eyes and never say "never"?
Or would you call this the end of the road?
I'm running out of memories, a shell of what I used to be
As this curse drains the life out of me
I won't let this drain the life out of me
Jonathan was written by Spencer Charnas & Justin deBlieck & Justin Morrow & Conor Sullivan.
Jonathan was produced by Steve Sopchak.
Ice Nine Kills released Jonathan on Tue Jan 21 2014.