Sometimes life just decides it wants to mess with somebody, and you're next on the list. Last week, it was my turn.
You know the kind of week: the one where your stresses, troubles and frustrations stack up like a teetering Jenga tower and it takes everything you've got to keep the whole thing from crashing down in a heap.
There is no rhyme or reason for it, and no point in getting angry about it. You just have to put your head down, call on your support network and keep going until fate decides it's someone else's turn.
While I can't be sure, I have a feeling Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan was having that kind of week when he wrote Bullet with Butterfly Wings.
The 1995 single from the band's Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness album won a Grammy in 1997 for best hard rock performance. It's also been named one of VH1's top 100 hard rock song of all time and one of Rolling Stone magazine's top 100 greatest guitar songs of all time.
Corgan's versatile vocals, powerful guitar and great lyric writing (with lines like "The world is a vampire..." and "Despite all my rage, I'm still just a rat in a cage") make Bullet with Butterfly Wings unforgettable.
It's the perfect prescription for a little musical self medication when the world decides to mess with you.
Give it a listen online (http://youtu.be/8-r-V0uK4u0) and crank it up.
