Seether - Rise Above This

Song: Rise Above This
Artist: Seether
Album: Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces

Seether is a South African rock band .

Rise Above This is from Seether's fourth studio album which was released in October of 2007. The song Rise Above This was written for Seether lead singer Shaun Morgan's brother Eugene who suffered from depression. Sadly Eugene commited suicide after the song was written. The music video for the song show the band playing in a room in a building while alternately showing a young man on the roof of what I presume is the same building. The young man drops a picture of his family off the building before jumping himself. As the man jumps members of his family including lead vocalist Shaun Morgan are seen falling too. I think the meaning behind this is that when he killed himself the people who loved him died a little too. At the end of some TV showings of the video a picture of Eugene and the phone number for a suicide hotline is shown. Rise Above This is a really great song. And the anti-suicide message is good and much needed today.

"Rise Above This"

Take the light, and darken everything around me
call the clouds and listen closely, I'm lost without you
Call your name every day when i feel so helpless
I'm fallin' down but I'll rise above this, rise above this

Hate the mind, regrets are better left unspoken
For all we know, this void will grow and
Everything's in vain, distressing you though it leaves me open
Feels so right, but I'll end this all before it gets me

Call your name every day, when i feel so helpless
I'm fallin' down, but I'll rise above this, rise above this
Call your name every day, when i seem so helpless
I'm fallin' down, but I'll rise above this, rise above this doubt

I'll mend myself before it gets me
(I'll mend myself before it gets me)
I'll mend myself before it gets me
(I'll mend myself before it gets me)

Call your name every day, when i feel so helpless
I'm fallin' down, but I'll rise above this, rise above this
Call your name every day, when i seem so helpless
I'm fallin' down, but I'll rise above this, rise above this
Forty eight ways to say that I'm feelin' helpless
Fallin' down, fallin down', but I'll rise above this, rise above this

Seether - Rise Above This - Youtube (Music Video)