Hey guys and girls, Speed on the Beat here. By now, I hope youve checked out Death of the King. If not, Im a bit disappointed in you. Not really, but still. So, if you HAVE checked out the album, youll notice that the album does play out chronologically. I reflect, go insane, get sanity back, and call it a dayall without placing blame on females or anything. However, Death of the King is also meant to be played out of the listed order. When I started DOTK, I wanted to showcase it as Speed on the Beat in a mental institute, considering about half of the lyrics were written while I...was in a mental health facility in late 2013. With that said, the alternative order is as follows 1 Religious Politics Losing Faith in Humanity 2 500 Days of Summer Losing Faith in Self 3 Come and Get It Losing Sanity featuring Dugee Buller 4 The Mental Breakdown Interlude 5 Cleanse Tormented Soul 6 Dreaming The Breakthrough 7 Do Better DAR Remix 8 Death of the King 9 Money Where Yo Mouth Is 10 Thanatos Stories through Music 11 Keep Integrity, Never Guises Thanatos Reprise 12 Redemptions Reprise With this order, we come in with Speed on the Beat the character in DOTK and myself already at the peak of the manic episode. Hes lost faith in everything, hes drinking and fighting and just being unhinged. It reaches a head with the same song The Mental Breakdown and eventually he starts to discuss whats really going on. Thats how we get to Cleanse and Dreaming. Cleanse before Dreaming furthers the idea of my denialmisdiagnoses with regards to my mental illness. It also showcases some of the things thatve probably caused me to be reluctant to trust people and the like After The Breakthrough, Im on the verge of being released from the facility as Im Do[ing] Better, regardless of whatever. But, there is still one more thing to do Kill the King, this illusion of grandeur. If Im to help myselfAND othersI have to be me and keep integrity, never guises. After killing the king, Im able to more adeptly tell people to put their money where their mouth is and prompt change. These changes, in some ways, Im provoking through my musical stories. And at the end of the day, Im in a better place. Im not as hung up on the past, and Im actually doing better. Redemptions Reprise begins around Christmas 2013 and takes us up to around the time of the albums completion June 2014. Im doing better, Im getting shit straight, and Im not letting this bipolar disorder diagnosis define me
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