Name: Challenge Me
Duration: 9 min 12 s
Channel: Harrigan/Gold
Description: "Challenge Me" is a song by The Strang Quartet. Low-key melodic rock accompanied by heavy riffing and with a power chorus.

Challenge Me

The Strang Quartet

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Low-key melodic rock accompanied by heavy riffing and with a power chorus.

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The Strang Quartet

Eclectic, intelligent rock-driven tunes with big guitars and more than a hint of electronica give us a sound unlike any other band.

The Strang Quartet formed (officially) in Cambridge UK in 2003, consisting of long-time friends Martin (guitars and vocals) and Julian (drums, keyboards, guitars and production). Our mission statement: to make deep, meaningful, noisy sounds for the delectation of ourselves and others.

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Progressive Rock

Charts

Peak #540

Peak in subgenre #56

Author

Harrigan/Gold

Rights

Strang Quartet

Uploaded

March 13, 2005

Track Files

MP3

MP3 8.4 MB • 128 kbps • 9:12

Story behind the song

This is a song about a double-edged sword - a life without challenge is empty and boring; a life with challenge is full of stress and uncertainty. How do we resolve this? Somehow...

Lyrics

I grew up fast, too fast maybe
Though childhood was never a race
But I wanted above all to look in the mirror
And see a wiser face
That was then and this is now
Much has changed, will change again
But old solutions past their sell-by
Bind me to those old problems

Lead me by my shaking hand 
To the places I would never go
Take me by the scruff of my neck
Show me what I'd rather not know
Challenge me
Challenge me
(Backing: Complacency is my enemy)
Challenge me
Challenge me
(Backing: Complacency is my enemy)

Here comes another mood swing
Night follows day follows dark falls away
There goes an up, Here comes a down
Guess what's coming the next day.

I thought you were joking
My eyes sought for a smile
But you blinked in confusion
Like your thoughts had been defiled
"You're wrong about that" I lied
But I needed him to think so
I needed time but my panic was building
And it had no place to go

Lead me by my shaking hand 
To the places I would never go
Take me by the scruff of my neck
Show me what I'd rather not know
Challenge me
Challenge me
(Backing: Complacency is my enemy)
Challenge me
Challenge me
(Backing: Complacency is my enemy)

Here comes another character test
Another opportunity to fall from grace
Here comes another catch question
However I answer I fall flat on my face

You're wrong you're wrong you'll always be wrong
Can't climb into another's head to hear their dissonant song
You're right you're right you'll always be right
But you won't convince this dumbass world tonight

It dawned one balmy August eve
That wisdom had a hidden price tag
Could I afford it? Did I want it?
The paradox began to drag
Life was full of little ironies
Tricking the sincere into heresy
Nonetheless: meaning well and failing
Was better than embracing a fallacy.

Lead me by my shaking hand 
To the places I would never go
Take me by the scruff of my neck
Show me what I'd rather not know
Challenge me
Challenge me
(Backing: Complacency is my enemy)
Challenge me
Challenge me
(Backing: Complacency is my enemy)

Here comes another seminal moment
Here comes an irresistible force
Here comes the challenge I baited
Here's a chance to change life's course

Challenge me
Challenge me
(Backing: Complacency is my enemy)
Challenge me
Challenge me
(Backing: Complacency is my enemy)
...