Mike Mezz's project

I chose to do a CD because it’s more of an original idea. I thought that making a CD was more fun for me and it helped me to apply different types of arts to one another. I learned how to look for important points in a song and that can help you to know what the song’s meaning is. I also chose a poem because I wanted to do something a little extra. I like to write rhymes so I figured I would write a poem.


The songs on my CD
1. Creep- Stone Temple Pilots
2. The Hand That Feeds- Nine Inch Nails
3. Far Away- Nickleback
4.Shipping up to Boston- Dropkick Murphy’s
5. My Hero- Foo Fighters
6. The Pretender- Foo Fighters
7. Ghost of you- My Chemical Romance
8. Goodbye For Now- P.O.D
9. Lose My Faith- Sting
10. Riot- 3 Days Grace
11. Attack- 30 Seconds To Mars





Sam is Tim’s hero
Tim likes to follow
Sam’s pride is so big that he could not swallow
Framed just like a picture
Convicted and killed
By his own kind it’s ironic and it gave people chills
Learn from this book
Learn a valuable lesson
That you should never be a crook
And you should listen to your parents and they’re not messin’
Gloomy as ever
Tim and his mother
Grieving the death of the father and brother
So say “I love you” to everyone you love
Because you may never know when the end is really THE END.







Stone Temple Pilots- creep
Forward yesterday
Makes me wanna stay
What they said was real Makes me wanna steal
Livin' under house
Guess I'm livin', I'm a mouse
All's I gots is time
Got no meaning, just a rhyme
Take time with a wounded hand
'Cause it likes to heal
Take time with a wounded hand
Guess I like to steal
I'm half the man I used to me
This I feel as the dawn
It turns to gray
I'm half the man I used to be
This feeling as the dawn
It turns to gray
Feelin' uninspired
Think I'll start a fire
Everybody run Bobby's got a gun
Think you're kinda neat Then she tells me I'm a creep
Friends don't mean a thing Guess I'll leave it up to me


The hand that feeds- nine inch nails
You're keeping in step ,In the line
Got your chin held high and you feel just fine
Because you do ,What you're told
But inside your heart it is black and it's hollow and it's cold
Just how deep do you believe? Will you bite the hand that feeds? Will you chew until it bleeds? Can you get up off your knees? Are you brave enough to see? Do you want to change it?What if this whole crusade's ,
A charadeAnd behind it all there's a price to be paidFor the bloodOn which we dineJustified in the name of the holy and the divine,
Just how deep do you believe?Will you bite the hand that feeds?Will you chew until it bleeds?Can you get up off your knees?Are you brave enough to see?Do you want to change it?So naïve,I keep holding on to what I want to believe,I can seeBut I keep holding on and on and on and onWill you bite the hand that feeds you?Will you stay down on your knees? [8X

Riot- 3 days grace
If you feel so empty
So used so let down
If you feel so angry,So ripped off ,so stepped onYou're not the only oneRefusing to back down
You're not the only one
So get up,Let's start a riot, a riotLet's start a riotLet's start a riot, a riotLet's start a riot
If you feel so filthy,So dirty so f****d up
If you feel so walked on,So painful ,so pissed off,You're not the only one
Refusing to go down,You're not the only one ,So get up,Let's start a riot, a riotLet's start a riotLet's start a riot, a riotLet's start a riot



These three songs reminded me of the book My Brother Sam is Dead the most. In all three songs I made the text red because that symbolizes the words that made me think of choosing these songs as being the closest to resembling the novel. For Creep by The Stone Temple Pilots the words steal and the other words in red made me think of Sam being in the war and him and the other soldiers stealing cattle from regular people and him being half the man he used to be by being classified and compared to being an animal.
The Hand Feeds by the Nine Inch Nails is the second song I chose because the words bite the hand that feeds stuck out the most to me. I thought about when Sam went into the war even though his dad told him not to. He was biting the hand that fed him by going against his dad’s judgment by not listening to him.
Riot is the third song I picked. Mostly every single word in the song symbolizes how Sam felt and he isn’t the only one that felt that way because he joined the army with other people that felt the same.
Mike Mezz