The Guilty Party

Album: So What? (2019)
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Songfacts®:

  • The message behind this song is people make mistakes and get things wrong. We're all part of a society who sometimes become victims of our intellectual power and say or do things that make us feel guilty wrong or even smug.

    This'll be the last time that you see us playing dead (Yeah)
    We're all so malignant, bitter and twisted
    It's just another blame game while you cry for help (Yeah)
    Good grief, let go


    Guitarist Sean Long told Rock Sound: "We never asked for this way of living but we are in it together. But with all of that it's important to never forget how much a life force you are. In a sense it existing brings the universe together. You never see something like a rose and feel like it is wrong. It has been created exactly like that and it is perfect that way. For some reason us as people feel like we can tell other people that the way that they are is wrong. At the end of the day there is so much more about life that we don't understand."
  • This was released as the third single from So What? on January 30, 2019. The album title came from the difficulties that While She Sleeps had in naming a year's worth of work, and how a title can easily give people the wrong impression. Long explained to HMV.com it was the band saying, "It doesn't matter what it's called."

    He added that they want people to listen to the music on the record, not judge it by its name.

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