Time again for the song of the week from my iPod. This week we are letting Beth pick which means another relatively obscure group.

HalifaxHalifax is a rock band from Thousand Oaks, California. The current members of the group are Chris Brandt (vocals, guitar), Adam Charles (guitar), Eric Ivener (bass), and Tommy Guindon (drums). The group originally started as a group of friends having some fun in 2003 and led to two self-released albums with several line-up changes by 2005. That year they appeared on MTV’s The Real World: Austin where the group was portrayed as a bunch of mindless drunks, a portrayal that the group claims is a misrepresentation. The group toured throughout the US, Europe, and Japan and the MTV appearance helped make them more well known. 2006 saw the release of The Inevitability of a Strange World, the group’s first album released by a record company. At the end of the year the group won the Dew Circuit Breakout on MTV2. The group has had little success since then and are still looking for a record label to release their new album. Mike Hunau, who was the lead vocalist, left the group last year.

The album The Inevitability of a Strange World has been the only successful album from the group. It reached #130 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on Billboard’s Top Heatseekers chart. The album is named after a book Bob Sala was supposedly writing, in Hunter S. Thompson’s novel “The Rum Diary”.

Promise Me Tragedy
I lie awake at night consumed by tragedy
I feel depression’s cold hand reaching out for me
All I’ve ever wanted was your honesty
But now the words, become the blade that you have driven into me

I don’t need your sympathy

I know you’re alone tonight, with tears you cry
I hope you’re satisfied, and yeah I’m doing fine
Now baby it could be fun, to fire your gun
I promise not to run
You can’t kill me

I feel your venom as it’s flowing to my brain
Weak in the knees but I am loving all the pain
Look into your eyes, I let the trigger rest the blame

I don’t need your sympathy

I know you’re alone tonight, with tears you cry
I hope you’re satisfied, and yeah I’m doing fine
Now baby it could be fun, to fire your gun
I promise not to run
You can’t kill me

You can drain my blood, but you, you can’t kill me (kill me)
You can steal my heart (my heart), but you (but you), you can’t kill me
Tonight I sleep, I dream of anything but you, you

You are alone tonight, with tears you cry
I hope you’re satisfied, and yeah I’m doing fine
Now baby it could be fun, to fire your gun
I promise not to run
You can’t kill me