Additional or alternate names:
- Chain of Prospit (original release)
By Michael Guy Bowman
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Released 5/31/2011.
Duration: 4:37.
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Lyrics:
Hold up
Before your hopes and dreams are sold up
You haven't failed yet don't fold up
Don't cut the tape before it's rolled up
You've always got a chanceRock it
And if the picture isn't clear just shop it
You're swinging by the chain of Prospit
The future's always there so pop it
Back into its placeYou've got a reason to live
Got a reason to live
No matter what you say
No matter what you take away
There's always something you can give
And buddy that's the reason
That you've got a reason to live
Got a reason to live
Don't care what you've been through
Don't care what people think of you
There's always something you can do
And no one knows it better than youPraise you
The absence in your life delays you
The note that desolation plays you
You know you mustn't let it phase you
If something's in the wayOwn up
There's data structures you can bone up
You might be feeling like you're Homestuck
But you can make it by your own luck
Snap it into placeAnd if the wind should blow
I will know
I will goReversal, all matter and its great dispersal
The secrets of the universal
This isn't just a dry rehearsal
We're living for todayYou've got a reason to live
Got a reason to live
No matter what you say
No matter what you take away
There's always something you can give
And buddy that's the reason
That you've got a reason to live
Got a reason to live
Don't care what you've been through
Don't care what people think of you
There's always something you can do
And no one knows it better than-You've got a reason to live
Got a reason to live
No matter what you say
No matter what you take away
There's always something you can give
And buddy that's the reason
That you've got a reason to live got a reason to live
Don't care what you've been through
Don't care what people think of you
There's always something you can do
And no one knows it better than you
And no one knows it better than you
And no one knows it better than you
Artist commentary:
Michael Guy Bowman: (Bowmantown Discord, excerpt)
the outpouring of people who told me that song got them through a rough patch was incredible. it definitely makes me think twice about what the effect of my work on an audience will be, esp. compared to the stuff i was working on when i was way younger
Michael Guy Bowman: (Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music, adapted to text)
(Continued from Dawn of Man)
And, taking that journey toward, you know, a culmination on Chain of Prospit, which says that our reasons for living are personal, and not refutable simply because the universe is giant and possibly indifferent. We have our own right to live for ourselves.
To some extent, that album was a turning point for me, because, you know, when you compare it to how stupid it was to do these... silly songs, you know, I think so much of the stuff I did for Homestuck ended up being funny, and it was like, I managed to get my way back into the comic again and again by being, you know, a comedian, that - pivoting so hard, to this, y'know, big serious thing that was more about "what does life mean?" (laughs) And doing that while decorating it with the elements of this comic, which are... sometimes just stupid and shocking.
I don't know, I think it hit right in the weirdest way, by reaching people that weren't expecting it. When people tell me that Chain of Prospit, for instance, really connected with them, and made them feel like they're not alone, or it made them feel like, that it... that it is personally true that they have a reason to live and that they shouldn't doubt their own struggle to keep going... I think it made me change, quite a bit. How cynical can I be about the world, when there's this other side of myself that... does honestly believe that, what you do with art, even if it's for some crazy thing like Homestuck, um, could actually touch somebody, in some real way?
(Continued back in album commentary)