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We should be declaring that we are sick of being sick from the rooftops, and demanding that those that make up the one percent elite listen when we shout that we are Tired Of Tears and that we should be able to believe just that little bit more in the power of humanity, that we can endure the worst nightmares that come our way and that those rains that fall from the eyes are only released when we have joy and the memory of beauty in our minds.
We might believe that we have seen bottom, the moment when the world crashes down around us and leaves us weeping, inconsolable, wretched, forever, and yet we don’t know just how far we can plunge into darkness till that one reveal, the moment when we understand that we might not be able to take it anymore, that the tears have not stopped flowing because we are over the pain, but because we just simply have nothing else to offer in terms of how are souls feel.
It is a moment of realisation that comes across with unnerving beauty and fatherly attention from the legendary British Doom Metal band, My Dying Bride, an act of confession of how low even the strongest may go, the toughest can fall when someone they adore may leave them stranded in the land of no hope and unforgiveness.
Tired Of Tears is that moment when you know that there is nothing more to give, and the temptation to surrender is all consuming, however as Aaron Stainthorpe shows, fighting all the way is the human thing to do, that to give up faith in the tangible, the flesh and the mind, is the last refuge to which we should enter. A track that shows the band’s absolute honesty when it comes to such matters, and one that in particular gives the listener more than enough reasons to relish the undercurrent of love that emanates from the powerful lyrics and scintillating pulse of the music.
They say Misery loves company, but they have got that wrong, it is the feeling of despair that asks for the shoulder to cry upon, misery is only asking for companionship because the fear of being overwhelmed alone is too much; it doesn’t ask that you join in, it doesn’t suggest that you also wallow, but it does plead that the day not finish in the darkness without holding at least one hand. It is to that image that My Dying Bride, ahead of their 13th album release, find solace in comradeship.
A terrifically endearing single, Tired of Tears is a call for understanding and one delivered with elegance.
My Dying Bride’s new album, The Ghost Of Orion, will be released on March 6th via Nuclear Blast.
Ian D. Hall