Coin
Using a similar compositional approach as I did with "His Name is Simon," Coin presents itself as a very lush and laid back track with a multitude of motion manifesting melodically. The slow down-tempo air sets it up to decay slowly into a warped world where hell slowly seeps into view as a woman cries alone. The song is actually a symbol for my strong resolve and hatred towards the depreciation of women. When I was in Korea, I saw and heard too many times the belittling of the object of our species' sustainment. I see children being kidnapped in the news almost everyday. Little girls sold into prostitution or made into some sick object of someones desperate obsession. Personally I would like to to send to oblivion - totally destroy in the most inhumane way - the people who act on these horrible drives.
The name "Coin" was just something that bled through. I do not believe in good or evil, both being a figurative side of the coin but still apart of it. However, I do feel the intuitive pull - as a fanatic religious person might feel in worship - to hate and condemn these acts and those who commit them. It is of the utmost depravity to take an innocent (again.. my own opinion) and ruin their one life by taking all the "positive" from them and hiding them in a sick and shallow grave of fear. Again though, when I deal with some of these types of feelings my own thoughts are at war. On one side I believe that "what does not kill you, only makes you stronger" and that "the most beautiful bloom starts alone in the choking darkness" and on the other my own past and experience with seeing the helpless beaten into submission drives me to absolute hatred.
So coin could then be seen as my struggle with what I believe and what I feel. I could go on all day about the many sides of these kinds of emotions, but in the end the song is a play on the horrible things that happen everyday to someone, while another someone enjoys them-self luxuriously.
