The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
Against the sky
Streams of light call out to me and you
We leave as one, we've just begun
To find the solace we're due
This is a life we must choose
We will make a brand new start
From the pieces torn apart
The break of day is before us
Cast your sorrows to the wind
Let the highway take us in
As we escape the disorder
This desert road, that we call home
This is our destiny
We chase the setting sun
As we outrun a life of agony
God, how we ache to be free
We will make a brand new start
From the pieces torn apart
The break of day is before us
Cast your sorrows to the wind
Let the highway take us in
As we escape the disorder
We will make a brand new start
From the pieces torn apart
The break of day is before us
Cast your sorrows to the wind
Let the highway take us in
As we escape the disorder
We'll make our way
We'll make our way
We'll make our way
We'll make our way, oh, oh
Streams of light call out to me and you
We leave as one, we've just begun
To find the solace we're due
This is a life we must choose
We will make a brand new start
From the pieces torn apart
The break of day is before us
Cast your sorrows to the wind
Let the highway take us in
As we escape the disorder
This desert road, that we call home
This is our destiny
We chase the setting sun
As we outrun a life of agony
God, how we ache to be free
We will make a brand new start
From the pieces torn apart
The break of day is before us
Cast your sorrows to the wind
Let the highway take us in
As we escape the disorder
We will make a brand new start
From the pieces torn apart
The break of day is before us
Cast your sorrows to the wind
Let the highway take us in
As we escape the disorder
We'll make our way
We'll make our way
We'll make our way
We'll make our way, oh, oh
Lyrics submitted by FickShut29
Brand New Start Lyrics as written by Myles Kennedy Mark Tremonti
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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That's damn good singing.
It is awesome. I bought the CD today. It's fucking amazing. Definitely one of my favourite albums right now.
Priam, everytime I mention this band to people, they immediately write them off as Creed 2.0 and don't give them another glance. I try to tell them this stuff is so so much better than Creed, but a las, I get nowhere with them....idiots...
Just when i was thinking one day remains album was the best thing ever to come out from post creed, then here comes the 2nd album which is seriously completely rock-out! m.kennedy has 1 of the best rock vocals out there currently, perfect tone, pitch and awesome vocal range. Indeed a brand new start from the band as i can see their letting loose on this album more.
guyz same happens to me. i always want to describe this band to my friends but they ignore it just like a joke. this band is awesome i think this is the band of the century. the way these guys perform its absolutely amazing. the voice of myles is full of pain and his lyrics is much much better than any other band in the world today. this band is much better than creed im very proud of tremonti that he highered this myles kennedy as the vocalist of alter bridge. all members of the band are amazing their work is priceless. i luv this band so much.
i couldn't put it any better myself Priam. this band is amazing, they do kind of sound like creed, but they are so much better and so much more clear. i am a big fan of creed and also alter bridge, but alter bridge definitely wins.
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dont mind my friend but i dont think that there is something in BLACKBIRD album which reminds me that creed and AB are lil bit similar bands, one day remains has some materials which creed used when creed was present, but BLACKBIRD is 200% diffrent from creed thing. thats what myles himself said that it was our first goal to stay away from that creed materials and make our own identity and thats what they did. and they've done amazing.