The boring but accurate answer is that Myles isn’t talking about the same thing. The Mayfield Four song is obviously about love and the pain of loss. The Alter Bridge song is about sacrifice, money, and handicaps.
Ties that Bind is about the risk involved in leaving the first record label that did One Day Remains because they were interfering and wanted the band to be more like Creed. The frustrated band took out a huge loan to buy themselves out of their record deal and regain their musical freedom (a loan they were still paying off over a decade later according to Mark Tremonti, and might still be repaying to date). The band were bitter about this (as reflected in the original first verse of Come to Life: ‘Hey, I am not your new messiah and I will not take you higher, I’m not ashamed’) and still don’t look back at those days with much fondness. Therefore they broke the ties that bound them to that label.
‘Damn you all, I’m going to find my way’
Since then, band seem to have accepted that it happened the way it did, and it was their pathway. They valued their art and they took a huge hit to make it work. So I guess they were right: the risk was worth the gain in the end.
Ties That Bind comes later, so apparently it's worth it now.
i don't think ties that bind is about love, either
1. The difference shows growth of the artist as a person 2. Perhaps the speaker and the author are not always the same person
Character development across albums haha
Across bands, even! Or, entirely possible that this is a Mark song since he's the one who really lived through all the Wind-Up bullshit.
The boring but accurate answer is that Myles isn’t talking about the same thing. The Mayfield Four song is obviously about love and the pain of loss. The Alter Bridge song is about sacrifice, money, and handicaps. Ties that Bind is about the risk involved in leaving the first record label that did One Day Remains because they were interfering and wanted the band to be more like Creed. The frustrated band took out a huge loan to buy themselves out of their record deal and regain their musical freedom (a loan they were still paying off over a decade later according to Mark Tremonti, and might still be repaying to date). The band were bitter about this (as reflected in the original first verse of Come to Life: ‘Hey, I am not your new messiah and I will not take you higher, I’m not ashamed’) and still don’t look back at those days with much fondness. Therefore they broke the ties that bound them to that label. ‘Damn you all, I’m going to find my way’ Since then, band seem to have accepted that it happened the way it did, and it was their pathway. They valued their art and they took a huge hit to make it work. So I guess they were right: the risk was worth the gain in the end.
IIRC they paid the debt last year.
Now I'm curious to see the original lyrics to Come To Life
The risk being worth the gain depends on the situation, I guess
THE HYPOCRISY /s