Trees will make a forest
Trees will make a bow
These are all the harder
Words you have to know
If everyone's a structure
Where their own savior sits
I'm a little red house
But no one's living in it

Cars are little blood cells
We are oxygen
City is the airways
Suburbs appendages
She was feeling lonely
Tired of the hive
Rented out a family
And he bought a bride
Bought a bride
Bought a bride
Bought a bride

Little cities' names on very lonely maps
They tied her up and laid her on the train tracks

Where are all the seedlings
We grew for violins?
Down in Jersey lumber
Still in prosthetic limbs
Should've been a soldier
I could've fought and died
There's no revolution
So I bought a bride
Bought a bride
Bought a bride
Bought a bride

Coming down the aisle while the horns play Taps
They tied her up and laid her on the train tracks

If somehow I was new and everything was unsaid
I'd go and buy a hammer, never sing again


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    My Interpretation

    This is how I interpret the line, "If somehow I was new and everything was unsaid, I'd go and buy a hammer, never sing again"

    I believe this is quite literal, and kind of scary. I think Jesse is saying that if he could restart, he would have never made a band, and been a part of Brand New. As for the hammer, he sings in the Daisy Sessions version about sailing a boat out, shooting it full of holes, folding up his prayer book, and drowning in a kelp bed. I think he is saying he would buy the hammer so he could build the boat, and row it out and basically kill himself. Overall, I kind of think he's saying the only reason he has to live is to continue making music with Brand New, and if he wasn't in Brand New, he would have killed himself by now.

    I'm probably wayyyy off, but then again, it's just an interpretation, let me know what you guys think of it.

    Br4ndNewon December 14, 2010   Link

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