The Frankenstein Playlist: Track Five

The Playlist So Far:

• 1- The Creature Lives by Mastodon
• 2- My Father's House by Bruce Springsteen
• 3- Cold Water by Tom Waits
• 4- The Apparition by Iron Maiden

Pain is a constant for the Creature. Physical, from the instant of his "birth." Emotional from the first rejection by his father. In many ways, I find myself thinking that the story is truly about the ways in which pain cannot be endured forever. We may put it off, we may reject it, but it's still there...waiting for our moments of weakness. The moments when it can overwhelm us, and the rational, the moral, becomes something malleable.

It's then when we become our most dangerous. When we sense that we've been pushed to the point where there is nothing but pain left to us. That is when the beast inside is strongest, and it's most deadly. Our focus becomes tight on that which has brought us to this point, and we decide to either succumb to it, or destroy it.

Rusty Cage
by Johnny Cash


You wired me awake
And hit me with a hand of broken nails
You tied my lead and pulled my chain
To watch my blood begin to boil

But I'm gonna break
I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run
Yeah I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run

Too cold to start a fire
I'm burning diesel burning dinosaur bones
I'll take the river down to still water
And ride a pack of dogs

But I'm gonna break
I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run
Yeah I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run

Hits like a Phillips head
Into my brain
It's gonna be too dark
To sleep again
Cutting my teeth on bars and rusty chains
I'm gonna break my Rusty cage and run

When the forest burns
Along the road
Like God's eyes
In my headlights
When the dogs are looking
For their bones
And it's raining icepicks
On your steel shore

But I'm gonna break
I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run
Yeah I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run