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Rise Above

the puzzle.” contemplating taking their life and the other and the band are to those characters.
One of the album’s most inspiring one is trying to explain why they shouldn’t “I think some of the characters are ex-
songs, ‘Never Stop’, is self-explanatory. consider doing that and how they should aggerated versions of pieces of my person-
Chad says, “As it says in the lyrics, ‘I’ll do things a little differently. So I think that ality and the other members of the band’s
never stop fighting for my voice,’ it’s a song song has resonated a lot with our fans, al- personalities,” Chad replies. “I think gener-
speaking of following your own path and though it hasn’t been a single or a music ally, with us originally forming as a theatri-
not feeling the need to always kind of give video yet, but it’s pretty cool because I did cal rock band that was very inspired by
in to the pressures of society, which is kind write that one to be extremely helpful and anything from David Bowie to Queen to
of the message of the band overall.” motivating to people that may have gone something that’s newer like My Chemical
‘Last Goodbye’, meanwhile, is about through those sorts of feelings in their life, Romance, it was kind of our goal to make
somebody who is contemplating taking to know that you absolutely can make it out up these theatrical stories that could go re-
their own life. The song features two char- the other side. That’s very important to ally well with the theatricality of the music,
acters talking to each other, one character me.” whereas now I think we’re trying to focus
in the verse, the other in the chorus. Chad With Chad mentioning characters in on the core things that we go through in
says, “The two characters; one of them is songs, Black Velvet asks how different he our lives and adding that theatricality in

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