Gerard O'Riley

This is the celebration of the life of a great friend of mine who was part Cherokee, 6 feet 7 tall and had only one eye. He was unfortunately killed in an accident.

This is a musing on things that have happened and are now just memories

This song is about depression, whether it's something that you are diagnosed with or simply a feeling of sadness or despair that you feel inside.

A relationship between two people with vastly different personalities and perspectives doesn't always work out well. When people are too different, there could never be a middle ground, and a huge rift is created that could not be crossed by themselves or anyone else for that matter. You could say that that kind of relationship is toxic, impossible to fix, that they should go their separate ways before things get worse between them. But when those two people are each other's closest companion, the fear of having no one else by their side often overrides how huge that rift is. Nothing could come out of it, but they only have each other. Though they aren't close and don't understand one another like how friends, or family, should, they are still marginally better than strangers, and sometimes that alone is enough to make them stay in that permanent stalemate.

Rivalry and competition are inevitable in life, but when two people become so engrossed in proving themselves to be better than the other, those two aspects can become an infinite burden that dictates their every choice and action-- so much so that they have no real goals, dreams, and desires. The two people's sole purpose is to stay in first place, whether in terms of skills, manners, appearance, etc. That intense rivalry can be said to stem from society and its more often than not impossible standards that only acknowledges the best of the best with only one name out of a billion being claimed as worthy of remembering.