Name: Through the Mirror
Duration: P00H05M42S
Description: Josh (bass) came up with the opening bassline and bridge riff, and I built the rest of the song from that. Glenn Fricker (Spectre Sound Studios) suggested adding a lower B to an E5 chord in the chorus, which made it incredibly heavy. We would go on to use this trick on several other songs. At the time we were really affected by the Iraq War, which shows in the lyrics.

Through the Mirror

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Josh (bass) came up with the opening bassline and bridge riff, and I built the rest of the song from that. Glenn Fricker (Spectre Sound Studios) suggested adding a lower B to an E5 chord in the chorus, which made it incredibly heavy. We would go on to use this trick on several other songs. At the time we were really affected by the Iraq War, which shows in the lyrics.

lyrics

Seems there's some commotion, starting in town
Wild run emotions, as their blood coats the ground
No innocent are spared, caught in the crossfire
Papers call it a "surge", and send it on the wire

Chorus:
Looking through the mirror, of lies and illusion
The story sold, blurred with delusion
Looking through the mirror, society disintegrates
New Rome has had its run, liberty eviscerates

Distortions of the truth, for an illegal war
No pittance for the lost, lives of the poor
No cost too small, just ignore the flood
When the price of oil, is the price of blood

Appointed misleaders, empire's formation
Who fix the law, purchased legislation
Gone are the days, of envisioned democracy
Welcome to the land, of the American theocracy

Looking through the mirror, of lies and illusion
The story sold, blurred with delusion
Looking through the mirror, society disintegrates
New Rome has had its run, liberty eviscerates

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from Through the Mirror, released November 30, 2007
Wright / Kurkjian / Humphrey

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Final Stage Windsor, Ontario

Probably today best known as being the band from which Brandon Wright and TJ Downhaniuk were in before the Spectre Sound Studios Youtube channel. Final Stage began in 2005 in Windsor, Ontario Canada. To date we've done 2 albums, an EP, and a single with Glenn Fricker and have played live for close to 15 years with Anvil, Paul Dianno, and many others. ... more