Like most people, 2020 has been an unprecedented year.  Along with a global pandemic, closed national borders, and cancelled concerts, brothers Shawn and Michael Cavallo lost their mother early in the year.  Shortly after, Shawn and his wife welcomed their first child.  The brother’s took these raw emotions of extreme joy and grief, and wrote the single  “Thank God I’m Alive.”  

 

“I’ve learned how to stop being angry at the world, and start making peace with heaven,” Shawn explains. “This current landscape gives us a bittersweet opportunity to be reminded of what we have, and what we can be thankful for. ‘Thank God I’m Alive’ is a reflection of the past few months - a song of gratitude - even during incredibly challenging times.”

 

This single is the debut for a new series of projects, the first being the six-song (Vol.1°) that will release in November. (Vol.1°) is the first of 6 eps that will launch through 2021.  While the band shares from an emotional season, fans can be assured that these upcoming projects are filled with MANIC DRIVE’s signature edge-pop sound that their fans know and love.  

 

 

 

 

LYRICS:
THANK GOD I’M ALIVE

 

I’m learning how to cope

With heaven calling you home

And we try to be strong

With all this going on

we'll just try to keep trying i suppose

 

Unsure how to deal with this

Its kinda messed if I’m being real with it

And we'll try to get by

One day at a time

But its hard to disguise how we feel

 

But you pray to God in the evening

You're grateful that you see another day

And even though your hearts is weeping

Still you bow your head and say

 

"I don’t wanna live life jaded

Don t wanna spend the rest like I’m victimized

Reminded in my darkest moments

To thank God I'm alive"

 

I’m learning how to grieve

It’s been a couple days since you had to leave

And I can’t comprehend I won’t see you again

In this life, in this reality

 

Not sure how to deal with this

I find it hard trying to find peace with it

And thoughts run through my head

As we lay you to rest

I remember the time when you said

 

To pray to God in the evening

Be grateful that I see another day

Reminded in my darkest moments

To thank God I’m alive

Did Heaven tell you mom?

I’m gonna have a son

And I’ll be a good dad

He’ll have love like I had

And I promise one day to teach him

 

To never go and live life jaded

To waste your precious time feelin’ victimized

Remember in your darkest moments

To thank God we’re alive