Landmine

Album: Human (2015)
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  • The band's lead singer Matt Walst explained the explosive cut to Artist Direct: "'Landmine' is about everything building up and building up and feeling like you're just going to snap at a point. It seems like people are like that. Sometimes, I'm like that. I'll let things get to me and get to me. At a point, you just snap, you can't control your anger, and you just explode like a landmine or a bomb." >>>
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    Jake - Virginia

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  • Alicia Curry from Indiana I totally got that feeling from this song. I’m a very passive aggressive person and I’m also an empath who struggles with drug addiction, therefore I was able to relate to it in that sense as well. Because often times in recovery I feel like a soldier on the battlefield every day. I think positive, attend treatment regularly, and use my coping skills and the majority of my time I try to spend doing things that are constructive or things I enjoy, but I know in the back of my mind that any second I could erroneously navigate myself to step on a landmine it’s only a matter of time before I have all I can take and the temptation will find it’s way and i could make a seriously dangerous mistake and subject myself to potentially a nasty relapse.
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