.::. Beautiful Thieves & Real Beauty .::.

Ok, I know this may seem monotonous, but this happens to be the media I am consuming at the present, most likely because it happens to be very poignant for me as a person right now. The majority of my friends drink, smoke, and do a vast variety of other things that aren't in conjunction with the standards I live and have given my word to obey via the Honor Code as a BYU student. However, I do have a group of friends who consider themselves to be Straight Edge. This is a pretty accurate description according to them on wiki, so I'm linking to it. A discussion on the new AFI music video brought this up. I really would show this video at like a Standards Night for YW. It's absolutely beautiful to me. I think it's a really good example and it speaks really strongly to me about keeping your standards and what you believe in. I think this is largely applicable to the media we consume. If you watch the band isn't partying, sexing it up, drinking, ect like the other people are. Each of the band members are taunted by something that is against their standards and they deny it choosing not to poison themselves with these things. And Davey (the lead singer) actually poisons the wine. To me, it's saying that though we are told

"My dear there is no danger" These things will poison our lives.

And as I heard people talking about it in class, that blogs were boring without pictures or videos, I'm including the video here for you to see yourself.

AFI - New Music - More Music Videos

Lyrics:
My dear there is no danger
Can't you see they turn blind eyes
To we swift and spot lit strangers?
Oh before the rush is over
We will be revered again
While the victims still recover

Oh!
If we run this light
Take a little life
No one will care at all
Oh!
We can burn it and leave
For we are the beautiful thieves
No one suspects at all
No one suspects

Ah

Oh,
Are we running towards death?
I have met him times before
He adores us like the rest
Oh even if we're discovered
Just be sure to wear your best
We will surely make the covers

Oh!
If we run this light
Take a little life
No one will care at all
Oh!
We can burn it and leave
For we are the beautiful thieves
No one suspects at all
No one suspects

Who would run for cover?
Who would run from us?
Who would run for cover?
Who would run from us?

Oh!
If we run this light
Take a little life
No one will care at all
Oh!
We can burn it and leave
For we are the beautiful thieves
No one suspects at all
No one suspects at all
If we run this light
Take a little life
No one will care at all
Oh!
We can burn it and leave
For we are the beautiful thieves
No one suspects at all
No one suspects