RELIC

Social Media Marketing – Promote the Band! - QuittingHeaven.com

I’ve begun the process of scheduling recording studio time for the recording of our 2015 album Relic.  This will be a personally funded project but we are looking for fans to help promote the band by spreading the word!

You can download images to post around social media sites from our fan page HERE.  And of course…you are welcome to post our music anywhere you wish to support and promote the band.  The more exposure you can get for Quitting Heaven and our music, the better and the more we can do to make Relic an amazing release.

We are counting on YOU to get the word out and help make the release of Relic a success!

Thank you - Mark

Something Died – Quitting Heaven

I’m going back through old posts, lyrics and videos from Quitting Heaven’s past and discovered a few things that I’m going to repost here”":

Something Died…

“Yesterday, something died.  I think I know what and why.  I heard it take it’s last breath, and while it sat choking…I could only watch as it passed.  But I can’t say a word or repeat what I heard.  And without talking about it, I know I will never forget.

I should have known better, I thought I was old enough to know.  But here I sit, wondering how I can handle it.  And maybe I’m just an ass for letting something so small consume me…but…there it is.  Eating away.  And it is my own fault.  Some doors should forever remain closed.

I know that no one would ever understand even if I explained it all…how my world has died a little.  No one will even know that I cried…just a little.  Except whomever is reading this…I guess.  Someone is reading this…aren’t they?  Because I have to let someone, anyone know. Yesterday…something died.”

 

Connecting The Dots…

“Connecting the dots” is an interesting phrase…especially with recent events on my side. My simple understanding of the phrase was that it meant following a series events to get a complete (or near complete) picture. But after some sad things in my life…I’ve realized it means more.

You see…a “connect the dots” picture begins as nothing until you start at 1, and start drawing lines. If you can connect all the dots, you end up with a final picture that is difficult to dispute. A robot is a robot…a teddy bear is a teddy bear. But sometimes in life, you don’t have all the information required to connect all the dots. So you start at some number…lets say 2…and draw a line to 3. But if you are missing 4, you may then draw the next line from 5 to 6 and then to 7. In the end you either have a picture that you can’t quite understand…or…you have enough dots connected that, even though it isn’t a perfect picture…it is obviously still a robot or a teddy bear.

And sometimes…that really sucks. Especially when you were hoping against hope that it was something else. But there it is, staring you in the face.

 

Fire Destroys…

And as you watch another burn, falling uncontrollably from the sky, you want so bad to reach out and try to help…even when they don’t seem to care. Far too often, you end up burning your hands…as I have. So what can you do? Just watch as something you love plummets and ultimately crashes into a burning heap, in the dirt? How is that friendship, or caring? But your hands are tied and in the end, that is all you can do. And as much as you wish to protect them, you find yourself having to protect yourself as well…from both the fire…and the pain of the loss you will soon experience. I guess the only words that can be said are…”Good-bye”…and then you move on. Like nothing happened, like it meant nothing. But I will always be here if you need a friend.

 

What a Fool I Have Been…

It may have been for all the right reasons,
And I might have been wrong, all along,
But in the end, after all the lies, it is a fool that I’ve become.

But the person which I strive to be,
That requires and consumes so much of me,
Is the person that I’ve always been…so a fool, I will surely be again.

Colorless – Album by Quitting Heaven

I wrote the Quitting Heaven album entitled Colorless in 2010 after a very close, female friend fell into a battle with depression and drugs.  I watched her crumble, fall and die and there was nothing I could do…as much as I tried.  Facing my failure I searched for a release and Colorless was the result.

Instead of being literal, I decided to build a fantasy story around the entire situation…and this is the original, un-edited story I created.

Colorless…

“They called her Christy. She was a victim…a casualty of years of wrong choices, wrong friends and ultimately, the wrong injection. The coma she fell into was extremely deep, devoid of any outside stimuli. She didn’t even know if she was alive or dead. But she could dream…a beautiful dream of a world filled with unexplored forests, trees and creatures of nature. This was her sanctuary, her heaven, and a place away from her past reality of a world where pain and despair reigned supreme.

But within the eternal escape of her dreams…just beyond the edge of the forest, lurked…something. Something ugly and deformed…with sharp, rotten teeth. Watching, waiting, but never intruding upon her peace. So she lived with this stranger who remained just outside of her realm, for what seemed to be months…until one day.

The creature crept into her area of this world, and as it entered, all the colors drained from view in it’s wake, leaving a dark gray void behind him. Even the flowers and the creatures he passed withered and deformed into hideous beasts…crazy and insane with anger…and they learned how to bite. She ran to escape the creature which slowly approached. Then, suddenly…the creature abandoned its pursuit, and returned to the outskirts of this land, allowing it again to beautify. More and more often though, the beast would attempt to approach her, draining the color from her world and ultimately retreating as she eluded him.

Unable to bear this loss of her peaceful sanctuary, she decided that the beast must somehow…be erased..or destroyed. And she hatched her plan. The next time, as the creature approached her again…she did not run…but smiled, and bent her finger, inviting the hulking monster to come closer. Moving away, keeping her distance, she lured the beast up a nearby hill from which she used to watch the animals play in the field. The beast, standing at the top of the hill was looking around, unable to find the girl. Then suddenly, from behind a tree, she sprang and pushed the creature as hard as she could, off the edge of the cliff, and down to the forest floor below.

She walked down and cautiously approached the ugly beast which now lay dying in a puddle of red blood upon the grass. But to her surprise, the hideous creature began changing, transforming from a grotesque figure into something…something beautiful…as the forest around her continued to turn dark. This is when she realized the horror of her mistake. For you see…the creature was not stealing the color from her world as it entered. The color belonged to the creature, and he had willingly given it unto this normally gray world to make this girl, that he has grown to love, happy. Now in the last throws of his life, the color began returning to him, and the dim lit world around her slowly returned to it’s natural state.

As the creature, now so beautiful, slowly passed…all the colors of this world began to die with the beast…and the forest reverted to it’s dark and grotesque state. Her dream world was now as as dead as the beast and as vacant as her reality, leaving her without her “Wonderland”. After a few moments of tears and reflection, the girl again ascended the hill. And looking down, over the edge of the cliff at the beast lying below, decided to fly away…falling through the air, and landing dead upon the beast below…their blood intermixing…never to awaken again.

In the hospital…family and friends stood sadly by, as the lights on the machines that kept her alive, slowly faded away.”

 

So there it is.  You can experience the album for FREE or download the album at QuittingHeaven.com where I have created an app of sorts to present the album song by song along with story sections.  It is actually pretty cool.

The Resurrection of the band Quitting Heaven

It has been a long time since Quitting Heaven has been active on the internet…that that has now changed.  Welcome to our resurrection, our new website at QuittingHeaven.com and my personal blog.  My name is Mark Witten.

So lets make this easy.  If you are looking for band information or our FREE MP3 music collection…go to QuittingHeaven.com.  That is where you will find what you are looking for.  But…if you are looking for some insight and “behind the scenes” insanity…you have come to the right place.

I’m going to say this once and it is too bad I can’t pin this to the top of the blog, but…I am not depressed, I don’t want to kill myself and I am not evil.  I am probably the nicest person you could ever meet in real life.  But I have deep feelings and emotions about…well…everything.  Quitting Heaven is my expression and release for this and in following the path of Quitting Heaven, you will find depression and darkness.

So…with all of that out of the way…lets begin.