Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 3:27 pm - austinn04

To be honest I have never heard of your music or your lyrics until late last night while I was watching Saturday Night Live (SNL). I was in a very dark place and the black hole of darkness and despair were consuming me, in my eyes I thought the battle of living was over. You see my father has a terminal illness and I was feeling sorry for myself and was in a place in my mind where nothing seemed familiar to me. I was sitting on my leather chair staring at the ceiling thinking about nothing and feeling empty inside. I was alone both in my heart and in my house until I started to hear a distance sound, its seemed like a far away sound but in reality I was sitting in from of my flat screen TV and then I heard it, the intro to "Use Somebody" . I awoke from my groggy state of exhaustion, and it felt like someone was giving me oxygen. I took a deep breath and focused my eyes on the screen and took in the Kings of Leon, I later found out was the name of your group and heard for the first time the tones and lyrics of "Use Somebody". I have since learned that your group is compose of four members of your family that came together to do what they love to do and play inspiring music and write divine lyrics because they opened my eyes. Your written words were emotional and had a significant impact in the way I look at life now. I was not living, I was merely existing. The world around me was living and I did not like that. I wanted everyone to stop and take this horrible journey with me. Look I have gone on about my feelings for awhile now, so I just wanted to tell you all THANK YOU.... for showing me the different colors of our life because in the end like a rainbow we all hope we will end up in heaven. So my life now is to live to exist and not exist to live. Frank