This Is Our Emergency

Look out for this band, they are going somewhere.

oh yes, i agree that they are

i love this song.

good song, they are definatly going somewhere

fuck yea, kick ass band.i think this song is confusing but it seems like shes trying to speak to someone. its an emergency no one hears

much love

She's talking about music. It's simple. She's trying to explain how much music can mean to someone, how much it can change a life, or lives. It's also about how much you shouldn't care about the little things that keep you down, just keep your head up and keep moving. It's like Andrea is speaking of the salvation that music is for so many people and how they run away from these things through listening to music and being saved.

I think it's more telling us that we're our own worst critic and how we tend to get lost in the expectations of the world. When our friends and those we care about lose sight of us becuase we've lost sight of ourselves in trying to fulfill those expectations. We think nobody cares about us and forget those that do.

"Don't forget that when you doubt That anyone will care about A thing you do and when you're lost Someone else is always found A thousand voices, are you listening?"

The Emergency is were lost and those we care about are trying to find us.

I sort of agree with mrs_chainsaw, but I see this song more as an "anarchist's anthem", if you will. The way I see it, it's a rejection of the fickle society in which we live. Take:

"Baby you don't have to be A picture in a magazine"

It's basically sharing the knowledge that we aren't all perfect, that we don't have to be perfect, and that we can reject the media if we want.

The repetition of the line: "Keep on doing your thing you do now," seems to suggest that there are many different ways we can "express" ourselves; different ways in which we can "fight" the degradation of our society. They just do it by writing music.

It's also about inspiration and how:

"The tiny spark that you create It can inspire and duplicate And soon it spreads from state To state from Williamsburg to Silverlake"

good song. great album...love The New Romance so much more than Good Health.

I thought it was about a one night stand, but I like Mrs Chainsaw's reading better.