Hidden Gems from the B-Side ⛽ — Fuel (Week 28)

Die Like This 🎶 Won’t Back Down

Hey yall… I’m trying to get back in the swing of things… so I’m sticking with Fuel this week… and probably the next one too… then I’ll move on down the road to something super special.

Today I have two more hidden gems for you…

Die Like This… Natural Selection 2oo3 🎶

Won’t Back Down… Natural Selection 2oo3 🎶

Also… “Won’t Back Down” was written by Carl Bell specifically for the 2oo3 superhero movie Daredevil… starring Ben Affleck… most songs on movie soundtracks are borrowed after the fact… not this one… so that’s pretty neat…

Also Fuel songs have ended up all over movie/game culture…

“Won’t Back Down” → Daredevil

“Walk the Sky” → Godzilla (also written specifically)

“Quarter” → Need for Speed… Underground 2

“Sunburn” → Scream 3

There may even be some more… I’ll have to check…

Anyways… hope you enjoy… I appreciate you.

Credit Alamy.com
Credit Alamy.com

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Hidden Gems from the B-Side ⛽ — Fuel (Week 27)

Wasted Time 🎶 Halos of the Son

It’s 4am… and I need fuel ☕️… the straight black octane kind…

I don’t drink coffee because I like the taste… I know many do… my girlfriend is like this…

not me…

I do it for the caffeine baby… to wake my butt up… put the pep in ma step.

and this particular morning… I think I’ll enjoy my fuel ☕️… with my Fuel ⛽️…

Wasted Time 🎶 Angels & Devils — 2oO7

Halos of the Son 🎶 Angels & Devils — 2oO7

Also I didn’t do a Shakespeare post yesterday… I was busy…

I had a little bit of time… but I didn’t want to just try and throw something together…

so next week hopefully…

I also included bonus videos… apparently Toryn Green had eye color implants… I didn’t even know this was a thing…

also he’s in the medical field now… pretty cool… and an actor

check the pictures out below…

Hope yall have a great week… Thanks for listening…

Toryns eye color implant procedures 👇

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. — John 1:5

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Hidden Gems from the B-Side — Flyleaf (Week 19)

There For You 🎶 Cage On The Ground…

Before Lacey Sturm ever stepped on stage with Flyleaf, she had already lived through the kind of darkness most people only write about. As a teenager she battled deep depression and survived a suicide attempt… and what came after reshaped everything. Her faith didn’t become an image or a lane — it became the core of who she was. That’s why her voice hits different. It’s not just tone or technique… it’s survival, it’s prayer, it’s something real breaking through. A lot of those Flyleaf songs weren’t crafted for radio… they came straight from her journals, her struggles, her conversations with God. That’s why you feel them more than you just hear them.

What makes her story even more wild… she walked away from it all in 2012, right when things were peaking after New Horizons. No drama… no crash… just a decision to step back for her family and her calling. Most artists hold on tighter at that point — she let go. And when she came back, it wasn’t to pick up where she left off… it was to start fresh with her own solo career. Same intensity, same raw honesty… just even more personal and stripped down. That contrast you hear in her — the softness and the scream, the broken and the bold — that’s not a style she learned… that’s a life she lived.

There For You 🎶
Year: 2005
Album: Flyleaf

Cage On The Ground 🎶
Year: 2012
Album: New Horizons

✝️ 1 John 3:18
“Let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.”

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