Grave to the Cradle was the first song I ever started writing. 2 weeks after I started playing, I came up with the main riff. I had long thought that I had been 'left behind' musically. I thought, in order to be great, you had to have an early start and so forth. With the story of Father's Son, I had been left behind. In school, some kids don't get picked because they're not good enough; I got singled out because I was exceptional, and so my friends would gang up on me, thinking that if, collectively, they could get one of them to beat me, then they had all won. I always had a strong desire for success and greatness, and now the pursuit of my greatest desire was the pathway to my greatest fear: isolation. I didn't want to try, because it would lead to loss of friendship, and not trying was betraying myself, so when I decided to try, I would inevitably sabotage myself in the end for fear of rejection. This was my most dangerous cycle in life, and this song is essentially a story of death and solemnity, and captured the essence of my inner state for the last decade and a half.

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