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This song was the major label debut of mushroomhead. Released as the first of two singles from 2001’s XX, it is the only song on the album to have a music video. The song originally appeared on their 1999 album, M3.
Part one : "Solitaire"
[Intro : J. Mann]
Locked away in a cage
My rage has got the best of me
Time finds a way each day
Of leaving less of me behind
I find this fight must be won
Inside my mind
So uptight and confined
Often blinded by the light
[Pre-Chorus : Jeffrey Nothing]
Taking its toll on my system
Like some played out existence !
[Chorus : J. Mann]
Time ticks away these last few moments
Is there anything we've left unsaid ?
I'm on a quest for atonement
I've got to find peace of mind
And a place to rest
[Verse : Jeffrey Nothing, (J. Mann)]
Biding my time...
Until I'm strong enough...
To fight back
(Hope)
I hope against hope... For some resistance
(Locked away in a cage
My rage has got the best of me
Time finds a way each day
Of leaving less of me behind)
Been taking it out... On my system !
(I find this fight must be won
Inside my mind
So uptight and confined
Often blinded by the light)
[Chorus : J. Mann] x2
Time ticks away these last few moments
Is there anything we've left unsaid ?
I'm on a quest for atonement
I've got to find peace of mind
And a place to rest
Part two : "Unraveling"
[Bridge part one : J. Mann] x2
Rest ! Rest !
[Bridge part two : J. Mann] x2
There's a calm before the storm
And the Western front is quiet
I've got Rembrandt as my right hand
Solo as my pilot
[Chorus : Jeffrey Nothing, (J. Mann)] x2
Condemned man (Condemned !)
Convicted man (Convicted !)
Could not save my life, cutting strand by strand (Strand by strand...)
[Bridge : Jeffrey Nothing (J. Mann)]
Passing it off
Like some kind of king
You don't know peace / 'Till you've had suffering (I've suffered !)
[Verse : Jeffrey Nothing (J. Mann)]
All of this so called resolve but you haven't tasted pain
Have you ever been inside of the new masterpiece ?
(Rest !)
Have you ever been inside ?
(Rembrandt as my right hand, Solo as my pilot)
Have you ever been inside the new masterpiece ? (What I've got)
(Rembrandt as my right hand, Solo as my pilot)
[Chorus : Jeffrey Nothing (J. Mann)] x2
Condemned man (Condemned !)
Convicted man (Convicted !)
Could not save my life, cutting strand by strand (Strand by strand...)
[Outro : J. Mann, (Jeffrey Nothing)]
Strand by strand, by strand, by strand, by strand
By strand, by strand, by strand, by strand, by strand !
(Condemned !)
Circumspect... (?)
(Condemned !)
Strand by strand...
Solitaire/Unraveling was written by Jack Kilcoyne & Jason Popson & John Sekula & Tom Schmitz & Jeffrey Nothing & Steve Felton.
Solitaire/Unraveling was produced by Steve Felton & Mushroomhead.
Mushroomhead released Solitaire/Unraveling on Tue Dec 04 2001.
What does it all mean? In out interview with Mushroomhead’s growler J-Mann, he declined to say. “I like to leave it up to the listener,” he said. “I try to leave a few riddles in there to where as time goes on, maybe as the listener grows or changes in their life, they can find something new in an o...