Brand New Lyrics

    ------ About the song Play Crack The Sky performed by Brand New

"This story's old but it goes on and on until we disappear" is an allusion to 'Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me' within which, Morrissey says "This story's old, I know, but it goes on".
The more you know. (^:

    ------ About the song Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't performed by Brand New

The reviewer below would be right with his theory but Timebrwolves and Tell All Your Friends was released in 2002 and Okay I Don't Believe You and Deja Entendu was released in 2003, so they are wrong. Nice theory though.

    ------ About the song Play Crack The Sky performed by Brand New

Perhaps from his soul to his physical body knowing that our physical body tends to lead us astray from what we know in our heart's as right. That's simply based on the fact that the Philadelphia project was believed to put many of the people involved through some highly traumatizing out of body style experiences. Just a bit of food for thought afterall laceys writing style tends to be a tad abstract and perceptual order that we can take what we want from it.

    ------ About the song Degausser performed by Brand New

Here's the thing about Brand New... This song reminds me a lot of "You Won't Know"... A big message, to me, on this album is the feeling that he's not good enough, or not sure if he's good enough. For "her", being a representative of females and love, and possibly even "Him" as in God, as referenced in songs like Jesus. He blends the two, almost making his insecurities about whether he'll be good enough about both at the same time, good enough for God, good enough for a woman... Good enough for love in general.

I feel like he blends them on purpose, and I feel like a lot of it is because of the way the church makes people FEEL unworthy as a way to make them buy into their religion as a way to make ammends.. I often get confused by the concept that if I don't practice their religion, God would just turn me away.. If God is as amazing and forgiving as we say he is, he should forgive us regardless of whether we believed or not.

Either way, the combination of the two is further pointed out to me like in Jesus where he refers to the first line "Jesus christ that's a pretty face, the kind you'd find on someone that could save"... I assume it's a girl, and maybe this girl can save him.. Salvage him. Maybe make him a good person.

This line's got a lot of that undertone to it... Referencing the "saint got the job of writing down my sins..." ... The same concept.. He's got too many sins to be loved. As in, he would taint the otherwise beauty of a young woman.

This whole album feels like a journey in his own mind, trying to rationalize a terrible breakup, or terrible shutdown, and deciding whether he's capable of truly being loved by a woman, or if he's not worthy, and he's possibly asking God the anwer throughout the album. It's one big question, and he's searching for one big answer...

That's just my vibe of it, though..

(I don't mean this as a religious debate as to whether God exists or not, believe whatever you want to it doesn't bother me, this is just what I get from the song/album as a whole)

    ------ About the song Guernica performed by Brand New

I listen to this and hear a grieving son, "ever since I was young, your word is the word that always won" Who but your own father or mother would you say this to? "If I could I would shrink myself and sink through your skin to your blood cells
and remove whatever makes you hurt but I am too weak to be your cure." With this line I really thing he is singing about illness that befalls a family member close to him.

    ------ About the song Limousine performed by Brand New

I think the first word he says is not "Okay", but, "Kate", referring to Katie Flynn, speaking from her mother's point of view, along with the rest of the verse. "It's your own day to wed" being that she is at her aunt's wedding and that's the only wedding she will have.

The next verse, beginning with "Beauty supreme", is written from the driver's perspective, and he sees "our sad Messiah" (Jesus), and he said, "I died for you one time, but never again." meaning that Jesus died for our sins, but wouldn't do it again.

"I love you so much, but do me a favor, baby, don't reply, cause I can dish it out, but I can't take it." This line goes back to the line, "And we will write". I think it's a letter to Katie, from her parents, telling her that they love her, but if she replies the pain will become too much to handle. And I think counting to seven is a way for her parents to re-live the seven years of her life. And he keeps repeating seven because she will forever be seven.

There is also a verse in the background at the end. Which sounds like this was written in Katie's perspective. "I'll never have to buy adjacent plots of earth. We'll never have to rot together underneath dirt. I'll never have to lose my baby in the crowd. I should be laughing right now." These lyrics are very powerful to me because she will never have a chance to experience life. She'll never get married, lose her baby in a crowd, and be buried next to her husband. "I should be laughing right now" is the most powerful to be because she should be alive and having fun, laughing, and being a child, but she can't.

This is such a sad story. This is one of my favorite Brand New songs. I recently found out that the song was based on this tragedy, and became more interested in the story and the lyrics. This is just my interpretation of the lyrics.

    ------ About the song Guernica performed by Brand New

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    ------ About the song Untitled 9 (The Edge Takes Over for Vin) performed by Brand New

We're finding our own tonight
We're single spies when sorrow comes
They come on battalions
We're burning our oil tonight
A little light to keep it on
Our own battalion

Definately what i'm hearing. Makes much more sense, yeah?

    ------ About the song Degausser performed by Brand New

There's a video on Youtube of Jesse explaining what a Degausser is. Basically when your recording a tape, the tape has a magnetic reading on it that runs over a tape head, and if you do that long enough eventually the tape head builds up an electronic charge. A degaussing tool is kind of like an electromagnetic de-charger. You run this tool over the tape head it takes away the charge.
So the word Degausser literally means to take the charge away from something.
The lyrics are about someone not feeling worthy. "I wish I could inspire","I'll never get anything right." They've lost their charge, they've been degaussed.

    ------ About the song Jesus Christ performed by Brand New

The song Limousine is from 3 points of view. The first is from the mother, up until the point he starts singing "Your beauty supreme." At the part where it starts sing "One I love you so much.." is from Katie's point of view.
Other than that, this is such a beautiful song. To me it kinda has a double meaning, that of religious and that of just a guy talking about a girl. That's just me, anyways.