Chris Pflieger - Vocals
Josh Schafer - Guitar / Vo… Read Full Bio ↴Losing Ground Was:
Chris Pflieger - Vocals
Josh Schafer - Guitar / Vocals
John Comparri - Guitar
Jason Vitagliano, Mike Tisa, Calvin Pflieger - Bass
Charles Vest - Drums
Losing Ground is a five piece rock band from Southern New Jersey. Anchored down by precise hard-hitting drums and bass, melodic guitars and emotional vocals, Losing Ground is exploring the harder and heavier side of punk while still remaining true to their punk ancestry. Being big believers in the DIY method, the band knows what it takes to attain success and the hard work involved to get there. Since the band started during the summer of 2001, they soon became regulars at local shows. By playing as many shows as possible the band swiftly gathered a regular fan base throughout Southern and Central Jersey as well as Philadelphia. But than the band took a turn for the worse and lost two of their members leaving the band with nothing left to do. After taking about 3 years off so the band could mature muscially and as people they are finally working on a come back,so get ready to have your ears ringing for days after hearing the new LG. Losing Ground cherishes their fans and has made it one of their main concerns to keep in close touch with them and thats how it will always be.
-taken from www.myspace.com/losinggroundmusic
Better Days
Losing Ground Lyrics
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Where i don't fit in the crowd
I go to church but i don't worry
Cause no one can bring me down
You don't have to be afraid
You don't have to be in pain
You dont' have to be alone
No matter how much i talk,no one hears a word i say
If i did then they would walk,pack there things and go away
Was it that i talk to much,now theres nothing here to say
I need you now as a cruth,so baby please don't go away
You don't have to be afraid
You don't have to be in pain
You dont' have to be alone
Betterdays are sure to come
They were never right for you, your not losing another friend
When you find a friend thats true,you'll never be alone again
You don't have to be afraid, you don't have to be in pain
You don't have to be alone, betterdays are sure to come
You don't have to be afraid
You don't have to be in pain
You dont' have to be alone
Betterdays are sure to come
The song "Better Days" by Losing Ground depicts a sense of loneliness, isolation and lack of belonging. The lyrics convey the singer's feeling of not fitting in, even in a place like a church where people are expected to be welcoming and accepting. Despite this, the singer's faith remains unshaken as he believes that others cannot bring him down. However, he admits that no matter how much he talks, no one seems to listen or care. He needs someone as a crutch to lean on, to prevent them from going away.
The song messages a powerful and universal message of hope, assurance that things will get better. The chorus is a hopeful reassurance that the difficulties you're currently experiencing will not last and that better days will come. The song is both inspiring and comforting, leaving listeners feeling hopeful for a brighter future.
Overall, "Better Days" by Losing Ground is a song that's easy to relate to, especially during difficult and uncertain times. It encourages people to stay strong and to hold on, as things will eventually get better.
Line by Line Meaning
Another lonely sunday morning
Starting another day feeling lonely and out of place
Where i don't fit in the crowd
Feeling like an outsider and not fitting in with others
I go to church but i don't worry
Despite feeling alone, finding some solace in going to church
Cause no one can bring me down
Refusing to let negative people or situations get the best of oneself
You don't have to be afraid
Encouragement to not let fear control one's life
You don't have to be in pain
Acknowledging that pain is not the only option and that things can get better
You dont' have to be alone
Assurance that being lonely is not permanent
Betterdays are sure to come
Belief in a brighter future and a new start
No matter how much i talk,no one hears a word i say
Feeling unheard and ignored
If i did then they would walk,pack there things and go away
Worrying that speaking up will lead to more rejection and abandonment
Was it that i talk to much,now theres nothing here to say
Reflecting on whether one's own behavior may have led to the current situation
I need you now as a cruth,so baby please don't go away
Desperately seeking support and companionship during difficult times
They were never right for you, your not losing another friend
Recognizing that certain people are not meant to be in one's life and moving on
When you find a friend thats true,you'll never be alone again
Holding onto hope that genuine connections will be made and lessen feelings of loneliness
Contributed by Lucas D. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@denverlabrec
I would rather die Poor and Humble, than to be “labeled” as being Happy and Successful..
“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
#EscapeTheBubble
#SuburbanFaçade
#KnowYourRoots
#HonestyOverStatus
#UnityOverDivision
@nthperson
Planning is important to provide the right balance of land uses. This needs to be accomplished with citizen participation and robust public education. That said, the one essential but almost everywhere ignored is the most efficient and equitable approaches to raising revenue to pay for public goods and services.
Economic theory tells us that in theory all taxation of property improvements ought to be eliminated. Our buildings are depreciating assets. The imposition of an annual property tax on the depreciated value of a building equates to a sales tax imposed year after year after year. If this is rational, then communities ought to tax the depreciated value of all other forms of tangible assets (e.g., our automobiles, our computers, our telephones, our lawn mowers, our refrigerators, etc. etc. etc.). This is clearly irrational.
A very different argument exists regarding the parcels of land on which our buildings are constructed. Land parcels are not a depreciating asset. Moreover, the value of a location has everything to do with the quality of public goods and services brought to the location and nothing to do with what the individual owner does or does not do to improve the location. The optimum public charge (or tax) to the owner is the potential annual rental value of the location as determined by market forces.
By making the above change in how property is taxed, land in our cities would be brought to its highest, best use. Land prices would fall to levels that encourage the construction of residential, commercial and other buildings and discourages the hoarding of locations and speculation in land that causes development to sprawl outward in search of less costly locations.
For more insight into the role of tax policy on the health of cities, search on: site value taxation, land value taxation, land value capture, or land value return
@VoteLaborOut
Thanks for sharing.
One key point got me - the founders of the cities picked to the best land for agriculture to stay but as economy developed the most arable land are now being concreted over for housing and permanently reduced in area.
@isidoreaerys8745
Our Land use has been toxic from the very beginning.
The founders farmed Tobacco by leveling old growth forests and allowing the Heavy Feeding Nicotiana plants to thrive for 2 to 3 years off the decaying roots. And once that fertility had been absorbed they would move to another forest having slaves perform the intensive labor of thinning the old growth
@isidoreaerys8745
Source: undaunted Courage. Merrywether Lewis and Thomas Jefferson biography
@staresce
I have recently learned about a way to fight that called conservation easements. It is a nice way for owners of agricultural land to keep their land and still financially benefit so they don't feel pressured to sell to developers. Once they put a conservation easement on their land it is permanent too.
@chronomancer8772
@@isidoreaerys8745 I was going to talk about how they just paved over the land that was inhabited by indigenous people but someone already beat me to it.
@soupit32
@@isidoreaerys8745 this is such a Low IQ take on the situation and adds absolutely nothing to the discussion. You're essentially boiling the problem down to that the Agricultural Revolution which spread across humanity tens of thousands of years ago, damages the environment. Or is your main problem, as another commentor made in reply to you, just with US farmland, due to the fact that it was previously inhabited by different peoples than today/inhabited forcefully? I mean at least make some point, more than implying the fact that growing food on land also negatively impacts growing food on land (as opposed to real topic at hand - urban/suburban sprawl negatively impacting growing food on land). Absolute clear example of virtue-signalling for the sake of it and derailment of the focus of conversation.
@c.f.2360
It's not only threatening agriculture. It's a threat to forests, meadows, and wetlands and animals. In other words, it's a threat to biodiversity.
@johnroush1099
@Andres Ruiz you gotta use it right or it just feels awkward.
@bigd158
@@johnroush1099 yea agreed
@fuxan
@Andres Ruiz hey I dont care for anyone who would impose upon another life but not all boomers are bad people and what is a bad person anyways?
All I know is that the things that give me life and happiness are simple and being taken by those who dont know how to be happy with the simple things in nature.