I have always loved writing. I have always loved the way I could get what I felt out. But when it comes to addressing this issue I can't write. I have tried. I can't think. This is the hardest thing I have ever had to write and I hope now that I can finally get everything out and let everyone know how I feel finally. I am not treating this is a major event, I am not writing this for attention. I am not writing this thinking that we were anything bigger than what we were. I want to be seen as humble in this and I truly am writing this myself.
The Elliot Project was a dream come true for me. I did not deserve all that it gave me and I'm thankful for it all. But all good things come to an end and this is end. Its ironic to me in a way, this started with just me wanting to do what I dreamt about and now its ending with what it seems to be just me. I never wanted this to end and I had so much higher hopes and I know we all did, but sometimes things just don't happen, there is no answer, there is no reason, it is just the way it has to be. We all wanted to be in a band and play music and at least that dream came true for a little bit. We were a family and now that the family is apart I can't continue what The Elliot Project was. Especially without Sean, he was a major part of this band and he helped me get to where I wanted and I'm forever grateful. I would love to continue this but it could never be how amazing it was. So I have decided to end The Elliot Project once and for all. I am still considering doing possibly a last show if there is enough response for people to see what The Elliot Project was. I would love to give anyone who supported this a final and personal goodbye.
This band changed my life and it changed me. I have experienced more things than I can imagine. But when this band began, I was different, everything was different. I played music because I loved it and I wanted to say something. I wanted to be heard. But my idealistic idea of what music is and what it could be was wrong. I wanted it to just be about the music but it is about more. And honestly nowadays, everything is about more than what it seems. I can't deal with that. With the person I am now and how I feel, I can't and do not want to be a part of what i see the "music scene" as now. I remember when I used to just be happy being on stage and playing my first show and no one was there but I loved it. After being in the band and the way the music scene is, everything became about so much more than it should have been. I am only saying this in all honesty for myself. It became about how many people came to the show, how much merch was sold. The scene became about such shallow material shit. Clothes, hair, fads, everything we all "know and love." And I won't lie, I feel victim also to what all this was. There was always more faking than there was honesty. It's makes it hard to say true to yourself and it makes it even harder to stay true to the music. I think this has always been and issue and some people can deal with it and come people can't.
I sacrificed almost everything I had for this band and eventually I ended up losing everything I felt I had. But I had the time of my life and it eventually made into what I am now. But I want to stay true to myself and for myself I can't find it in The Elliot Project anymore. The one thing I always wanted to do because of music is touch people and make a difference somehow. So hopefully in this I did something and I said something. And maybe I was heard. I'm tired of judgement from everyone, we all do it. I am sick of this fake non-real MTV fed believers. I just wish people would be true to themselves and honest. Its never to late to start over and that is what I am trying to do.

Thank you to everyone for helping my dream come true

Bryant Williams

ps. If you would like to respond or contact me, you can usually try better through my personal myspace www.myspace.com/bryanwithat

Also please continue support what The Elliot Project was. In the next month I will be trying to release all the songs recorded ever for streaming and the cd can still be purchased through Itunes. I hope to have one final show, free of promotion, free of the scene, with people who just love the music. Stay true.