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I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light Lyrics
The time has come for colds, and overcoats.
We're quiet on the ride, we're all just waiting to get home.
Another week away, my greatest fear.
I need the smell of summer, I need its noises in my ears.
If looks could really kill, then my profession would staring.
Please know we do this cause we care and not for the thrill.
Collect calls to home
To tell them that I realize that everyone who lives will someday die and die alone.
And we won't let you in.
Though we're down and out.
We won't let you in.
I wrote more postcards than hooks.
I read more maps than books.
Feel like every chance to leave is another chance I should have took.
Every minute is a mile.
I've never felt so hollow.
I'm an old abandoned church with broken pews and empty aisles.
My secrets for a buck.
Watch me as I cut myself wide open on this stage.
Yes, I am paid to spill my guts.
I won't see home till spring.
Oh, I would kill for the Atlantic,
but I am paid to make girls panic while I sing.
And we won't let you in.
Though we're down and out.
We won't let you in.
And we won't let you in.
We don't want what isn't ours.
We won't let you in.
You win.
And the coastline is quiet.
While we're quietly losing control.
Yes, we're silent but sure we invented the cure
that will wash out my memories of her.
"The harpoon is loaded.
The cage is lowered.
The water is red." Like you.
We're quiet on the ride, we're all just waiting to get home.
Another week away, my greatest fear.
I need the smell of summer, I need its noises in my ears.
If looks could really kill, then my profession would staring.
Please know we do this cause we care and not for the thrill.
Collect calls to home
To tell them that I realize that everyone who lives will someday die and die alone.
Though we're down and out.
We won't let you in.
I read more maps than books.
Feel like every chance to leave is another chance I should have took.
Every minute is a mile.
I've never felt so hollow.
I'm an old abandoned church with broken pews and empty aisles.
My secrets for a buck.
Watch me as I cut myself wide open on this stage.
Yes, I am paid to spill my guts.
I won't see home till spring.
Oh, I would kill for the Atlantic,
but I am paid to make girls panic while I sing.
Though we're down and out.
We won't let you in.
And we won't let you in.
We don't want what isn't ours.
We won't let you in.
You win.
While we're quietly losing control.
Yes, we're silent but sure we invented the cure
that will wash out my memories of her.
"The harpoon is loaded.
The cage is lowered.
The water is red." Like you.
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who's already super obsessed with the new album? i am.
Agreed. This cd is awesome. I think its much better than the first. Totally different sound.
when i first heard the cd a few months ago i couldnt believe it was brand new. now i love this cd. i have played it non stop for the last month. and this song is amazing. it would be 10x more amazing if i was in a touring band cause im sure this is how a lot of bands feel about touring
in case it hasn't been said, this song has lyrics from Archers of Loaf's "Chumming the Ocean"
Brand New: "The harpoon is loaded, the cage is lowered, the water is red- like you "
Archers of Loaf: "And harpoons are loaded, the cage has been lowered. The mask's on, the diver is down, now.
And they're chumming the oceans. The signal is sent I think he's in trouble. The water is red, red, red, red. "
thats so weird you noticed that at this point in my life lol
thats so weird you noticed that at this point in my life lol
because i was realy high the other night, lying in my car and i just discovered this band due to Brand New (i love them...got the devil and god are raging inside me" tattooed on me...)
because i was realy high the other night, lying in my car and i just discovered this band due to Brand New (i love them...got the devil and god are raging inside me" tattooed on me...)
but anyway
but anyway
i noticed it too, even if i was in and out of existence lol im glad someone else did too = )
i noticed it too, even if i was in and out of existence lol im glad someone else did too = )
brand new introduced me to a LOT of music and quite frankly i dont know how i survived without it
brand new introduced me to a LOT of music and quite frankly i dont know how i survived without it
like neutral milk hotel jesus lizard archers of loaf superchunk...
like neutral milk hotel jesus lizard archers of loaf superchunk
i had no idea these people existed
i think this song and "okay, i believe you; but my tommy gun don't" (and failure by design, a little) are both jesse's way of both hating the state of mind he has to put himself in to write about what he writes about (he's admittedly a pretty depressed dude) and rebelling against the notion that they're a heart-throb band for teenage girls (ala All-American Rejects) and not legitimate (indie) artists.
at this point in time, they were making really great music, and being overshadowed by jesse's magazine cover appearance.
I can't believe he talks about IVing narcotics in the last verse... not the focus of the song obviously just thought it was noteworthy.
This song reminds me a lot of Kurt Cobain, musical genius who couldn't stand the idea of becoming a commercial commodity because of his art.
This song reminds me a lot of Kurt Cobain, musical genius who couldn't stand the idea of becoming a commercial commodity because of his art.
yeah theyre not as poppy as they were in their first cd
raises hand i am!!
raises hand i too!!
I love how this cd has a different sound - their first cd was great, but it seems like the first was more pop-ish & this one shows them matured with much better lyrics.