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Download "Black Eye" from Derek Webb |
Story Behind the Song, In Derek's Words
“Black Eye” was the first completely collaborative track Josh and I worked on for the record, and it kind of taught us what our process was going to be. When Josh emailed me the initial riff, I was at the airport about to get on a plane. So I downloaded it and listened to it on the flight, and by the time I landed, I’d probably written half the song because the track itself was so evocative. It had this energy, this punch to it. So I immediately started throwing lyrics at it introducing the central metaphor of STOCKHOLM SYNDROME: that we tend to fall in love with the forces that hold us captive and threaten to destroy us. I was looking at the world around me and seeing evidence of Stockholm Syndrome everywhere. All the issues I was having – that my friends were having – that my community was having – were all deeply rooted in our being in love with the ideas and institutions that are holding us hostage. We love these things. We worship them. So “Black Eye” is essentially the thesis statement of the whole record.
