Ben & Shae Cecka's family in Gilbert, AZ

So, Dax Riggs has been in my musical cycle via Acid Bath since high school, but in the past few months I’ve begun gathering up the more recent work that he’s done and it’s completely taken my breath away. More often than not when I’m listening to an album I can’t help but run to grab a guitar and try to play along. Here’s a particularly beautiful ballad that I worked out tonight.

Terrors of Nightlife
by: Dax Riggs
We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love

C            F                  C
I laid all I own at the devil's feet

C                   F                        C
and I have placed a rose between the angel's teeth

                 G                  C
night lay beside me, night lay beside me

C                     F                        C
I wish you could hear what I hear when I’m out there

C                     F                        C
the stars all seem to burn and scream into the atmosphere

                 G                    C
night lay beside me, night lay beside me

C                   F                    C
may grief fall away like leaves from the trees

C                   F                    C
may grief fall away like leaves from the trees

                     G                         C
and night lay beside me, only night lay beside me

Love and Loss: A Compilation for Jeremy (96.9MB)

For this first anniversary of the life and death of our son Jeremy, we decided to share the year of emotions through the gift of music. You can download the entire album as we’ve arranged it by clicking the link above, or if you’d prefer to support the artists directly then you’ll find links to purchase the individual tracks through Amazon (sans Mother Earth and Father Time). Shae has crystallized some of the lyrics from each of the songs.

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From dehumanization to arms production,
For the benefit of the nation or its destruction

Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,
Life’s no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms

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