Dear, I'll stay gold just to keep these pasts at bay
To keep the loneliest of nights from claiming you
and to keep these longest of days from waking you
For I felt the greatest of winters coming
and I saw you as seasons shifting from blue to grey
That's where the coldest of these days await me
and distance lays her heavy head beside me
There I'll stay gold, forever gold
The whole cd "Jane Doe" tells a story. Its about a relationship gone wrong. The singer goes through all his emotions.
Jane Doe is no one in particular, but alot of the lyrics have to do with his emotions in dealing with a break up. His 'Jane Doe' is his 'Great Devastator.' A girl who's left him a wreck.
Dude, I went through the exact same thing with a girl. I just don't understand what people get out of hurting others.
jake uses his voice more as an instrument than actually singing.
i agree with xtrue4lifex. listen to phoenix in flames. jake sounds like a panther or some sort of animal. its the most incredible sound i've ever heard come out of a human.
I heard in an interview that the Jane Doe album is about all of the nameless and facelesss problems that everyone has to face at one point or another.
Just for the record, jane doe refers to the name given by cops in america to an unidentifed female body. I heard in terrorizor magazine that he just ended a 4 or 5 year realtionship, and the lyrics on jane doe deal heavily with it. I remember jake describing himself as a 'heaving mass of emotional garbage', which i thing describes the attitude on jane doe very well. More emotional in a sense than previous releases, and definaltly with more focus. Thats why i'd say that i prefere this record to PTES, cos its way more grow up and a real sense of direction with it.
Just for the record, jane doe refers to the name given by cops in america to an unidentifed female body. I heard in terrorizor magazine that he just ended a 4 or 5 year realtionship, and the lyrics on jane doe deal heavily with it. I remember jake describing himself as a 'heaving mass of emotional garbage', which i thing describes the attitude on jane doe very well. More emotional in a sense than previous releases, and definaltly with more focus. Thats why i'd say that i prefere this record to PTES, cos its way more grow up and a real sense of direction with it.
"Not that you should really care though...to me, lyrics are the tiniest part of the Converge experience. "
I respect your opinion fully and I understand what you mean. If you were looking towards converge's music for lyrical sensibility you're fucked. But to me I absolutely love Jakes writing style. The albums are like a book in itself, and it just amazes me eachtime.
The feeling and the emotion they put forth makes it all worth it.
xtrue4lifex has it right, really - he could honestly be spouting ridiculous nonsense and it would probably be hard to tell the difference. Not that you should really care though...to me, lyrics are the tiniest part of the Converge experience.
I can see how some people might read the lyrics of Jane Doe and think that there is a connecting theme, almost like a concept album or an album about a specific event, but I think it's got more to do with Bannon's personality than it does with an actual concerted effort to write an entire album about one thing or person.
If you look at Bannon's art, for the most part, you'll see exactly what I mean. There are recurring themes, but it's not necessarily planned that way - it's just his personality.
Writing that made me nearly wet myself in anticipation for You Fail Me...just a few more months...