Combining the elements of punk, metal, and broadway, The Sinators are a female-fronted 5-piece band that write fast, melodic songs often concerning the social i
Hello. We are The Sinators.
Story behind the song
I am rather obsessed with the mathematics of music and the beauty of music theory. One day, I was contemplating the power of the tonic and its effect in popular music. As a songwriter, I constantly feel like a slave to the tonic's mesmerizing power and I thought that it would be cool to write a song that established a clear and strong tonic, but ended with an unresolved chord. I saw an immediate parallel between this musical idea and a long running problem of mine...
In short, this song details my tendency of running away from my problems. I find that it's easier to work through them if I completely put them out of my mind until I'm ready to deal with them at a later time. Frequently, however, that time is never.
The rest of the song is fairly self-explanitory except for the line, "Like Xeno's Paradox I'm trying, but my life is unresolved." For those of you who've never heard of Xeno's Paradox, let me break it down for you: Imagine two points, A and B, and that you're trying to get from A to B by traveling half the distance at a time. For example, if you're 64 meters away from B and you travel half the distance to B, you will be 32 meters away. Then 16 meters. Then 8, then 4, then 2, then 1, then 1/2, then 1/4, etc. Xeno realized that although you would get extremely close, you would "mathematically" never get there. And that's how I felt--that no matter how hard I tried to deal with my problems, they kept creeping back up, that they would never resolve. Hence, Unresolved.
Lyrics
Building walls protects me from the fears that I hide
Though it seems that I've built them up and trapped myself inside
It'd be harder, but smarter to deal with it at last
But it's just so much easier to leave it in the past
And run away from all the things that keep me this way
But I know that my problems are destined to be...
Unresolved--because I won't confront the conflicts that I face
I'll turn my head and close my eyes-go to another place
Until the problem resurfaces, again it hits a wall
Like Xeno's Paradox I'm trying, but my life is Unresolved.
It's tough to find an outlet, it's tough to find a way
Cause running from the truth is getting harder by the day
At some point I'll realize that I'm not alone
But until that day I'll be here struggling on my own
Running away from all the things that keep me this way
But I know that my problems are destined to be...
Unresolved--because I won't confront the conflicts that I face
I'll turn my head and close my eyes-go to another place
Until the problem resurfaces, again it hits a wall
Like Xeno's Paradox I'm trying, but my life is Unresolved.
Lyrics: March 2001
Music: December 2000
