Thirty Seconds to Mars - "Alibi" Lyrics

As many of you may know, I am a huge 30 Seconds to Mars fan. In fact, the video above is a song on their recent album "This Is War" titled "Alibi." This is a softer song they sing and one of my favorites! This is not the offical music video (they don't have one for this song), just the lyrics but it is gorgeous nonetheless! Now before I continue on with this post I am going to explain a few things regarding this band and it's fan base:

• 30 Seconds to Mars is a rock band with a touch of punk and screamo (just a touch!)
• They have a fan base that they fondly call the Echelon. Yes, this is a cult.
• The lead singer, Jared Leto, and his brother and the bands drummer Shannon Leto, were raised in a hippie commune where there was no limit to creativity.
• As an example of the noted bullet above, they recently released a censored and uncensored music video of their single Hurricane. For people who want to know, I watched the censored one and found that, even censored, it is still very much a sexual music video.
  
• Although the band does include sex in music videos and swearing in their lyrics, I actually find a lot of their music inspiring.
• They have released three albums. In the recent album titled "This Is War" (also the name of a single on the album) they turned the microphones to the Echelon (the fans) and you hear a lot of fan voices on the album (I Jared said they had about 100,000 people from nine different countires on the album).
• There most recently famous single off the recent album is "Kings and Queens."
• According to facebook, they have over 1,000,000 fans (and counting).
• Jared is a bit crazy and is known to jump past security and into the crowds at music festivals and major concerts. He will crowd surf among the fans just to say "hi."
• All three band members are over 30 years of age, but you would not think it when you look at pictures or music videos.

Alright, now onto the reason for this post. After the release of the controversial music video Hurricane, the band held a live forum and Q&A session with fans to explain the concept and reasoning behind the video. He noted that he did have one (or maybe several) reason(s) as to why he choose the topic he did for the video. He then noted, however, that it wasn't initially about sex, but about being creative with who you are. This inspired me (not the sex part...no). It got me thinking in a way I didn't think before. Later in the live forum, Jared talks about art and what inspires people can turn into something different and to never be afraid of the inspiration that comes to you. Now, I am not going to make a music video about sex, but it did inspire me to sit down and write out somethings I have been wanting to do (in a creative sense). For instance, I have an idea about a movement (dance) piece in involving paint and multi-layered, textured backdrops. I already have a name for it and know it would probably turn into a two (maybe three) part piece! I also have an idea for my students this winter that may push them further in their dance and colorguard training than that have ever been pushed before!


I will post a picture of this list later (it is rather long). Rest assured, there are no plans of sex in my inspirations either!


Now, time for bed before my super crazy, pre-finals week.