“We live happily forever From “Come Sail Away” by Styx Sometimes we can take away the wrong message from a song. The song “Come Sail Away” by progressive rock band Styx is one of my favorite songs of all time. I’ve typically turned to it for a very specific reason — escape. “Come Sail Away” was my invitation to transport out of whatever reality I was in. I basically assumed that the writer of the song — former Styx frontman Dennis DeYoung — was calling on me to climb aboard that starship with him and take a break from it all. So whatever was going on at the time — boredom, emptiness, disappointment, shame — the song had the narcotic effect of numbing me out and helping me forget my life. The problem was that eventually, I’d have to come back to Earth, and things hadn’t changed much for me. But it was fun to have that moment of escape. After all, isn’t that what progressive rock music is all about? Source: Rebecca Wolf Photography, used with permission Maybe not so much as it turns out. Because when I spoke with DeYoung for The Hardcore Humanism Podcast, I began to consider a new perspective on the… Read full this story
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