Hey there internet friends! I have posted songs a few times by the group Seether. Here lately , I’ve been listening to them every day. I was looking up some stuff about them on Wikipedia that lead me down a rabbit hole and discovered the meaning of the song Rise Above This. The lead singer’s name is Shaun and he has a sister Lucy and had a younger brother Eugene. Shaun wrote the song for his brother to help him get out of a depression. Unfortunately, in 2007, his brother jumped from an 8th floor window of a hotel that the band was staying at in South Dakota and died. In 2008, the band made a music video for MTV2 and during the filming, they had to have several takes because Shaun couldn’t stop himself from sobbing. The video portrays a boy who is leaping off a building and when he does, his family all falls down right where they are. In video, they eventually bounce back up and has Suicide Hotline at the end.
After learning about this I can totally tell that Shaun’s been crying on the video and it breaks my heart.
This song is on one of their earlier albums from 2007 named Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces.
I know this post is a little depressing but I also like learning about real facts and meaning of songs. I have suffered from a lot of depression lately and I listen to this song a lot. Thought you may find it interesting too . They write the majority of their songs even though many years ago they did cover the song Careless Whisper by George Michaels and it did very well.
Their last album was released in 2017 and I really wish they would release a new one. I saw them in concert last May and so glad I did.
