The closing song, "Trust Me," off of "How to Save a Life," is one of King's favorites to play during live sets. "It's such a beautiful song. I kind of lose myself in it. It's the story from the early days of The Fray -- when we didn't have a label, and you didn't know who to trust, and people were telling us which direction to go in. It's a song about the feeling of almost being alone, despite there be a lot of people around.
I agree with this more than anything, but certain lyrics of the song I like to imagine are about bf/gf relationships, it's much more romantic and it fits the music better. But it's not about that. They wrote the song as if someone from a record company talked to them bout the negative control over the music industry.
I agree with this more than anything, but certain lyrics of the song I like to imagine are about bf/gf relationships, it's much more romantic and it fits the music better. But it's not about that. They wrote the song as if someone from a record company talked to them bout the negative control over the music industry.
I think it could've been one of the producers or someone "in the know" who he called a friend for telling them the truth, but also a foe b/c the wise man was playing for the wrong team. But he still...
I think it could've been one of the producers or someone "in the know" who he called a friend for telling them the truth, but also a foe b/c the wise man was playing for the wrong team. But he still gave them some good info.
Like "we don't want you to see, we come and we go." That could mean that their potential record company didn't want The Fray to see what they do to their popularity, their paychecks, and importantly, their music. All these ppl, producers, bosses, the top ppl of the record company have a say in what they sing & how it sounds and EVERYTHING and these people come and go. Anyone ever looked at all the producers & diff ppl who were involved in each song on an album? Here today gone tomorrow. No one's ever really there w/ them permanently in that business. So it'd be easy for them to get lost. They could record a song and the producer, maybe, could change it, and b/c they signed the contract, it'd have to stay that way. Or b/c the producer's in a different country or state working w/ another artist, it'd have to stay that way here today gone tomorrow. Secret evils that they don't want the band to know about.
The ppl in charge over those companies practically hold the world in their hands. They manipulate and influence what we hear from our favorite artists. The bosses pass on the necessary info to the new CEOs. Info that none of us "regular" ppl are supposed to know and so the corrosion of music continues decade after decade. It's always been this way and that wise person was telling them that when they're older they'll understand the imperfections of the music industry.
He told the wise man that because they know so few ppl in the buisness, telling him who they knew would only prove that the wise guy needs them less than they need him. And then Sir Wisdom told them that they, he and the big bosses don't give sympathy (think of Britney Spears, and artists that they force into getting hooked on drugs to continue releasing music) and that they should trust him, they should trust nobody.
And Joe & Issac admit to the wise man that they don't have honesty b/c there's stuff they don't want to say. What they didn't wanna say was that altho they just heard how the record company will push & pull and manipulate them into doing things Their way, they still want to go for it and try. Then they say they'll try to get out but they know they won't, cause the industry is evil and once you get in, most of the time it's like selling your soul to the devil, not literally, but when you're under contract, etc, you're kinda stuck.
Traffic is perfectly still. Could mean the conversation in that verse screeched to a halt. I think they made that verse romantic sounding so it could fool ppl into thinking it was about getting older or relationships. I doubt they would've gotten away w/ a song like this if they'd made it completely blatant. LUCKILY, it looks like the record company aren't forcing The Fray into anything or twisting their songs and such so woot-woot
The closing song, "Trust Me," off of "How to Save a Life," is one of King's favorites to play during live sets. "It's such a beautiful song. I kind of lose myself in it. It's the story from the early days of The Fray -- when we didn't have a label, and you didn't know who to trust, and people were telling us which direction to go in. It's a song about the feeling of almost being alone, despite there be a lot of people around.
I agree with this more than anything, but certain lyrics of the song I like to imagine are about bf/gf relationships, it's much more romantic and it fits the music better. But it's not about that. They wrote the song as if someone from a record company talked to them bout the negative control over the music industry.
I agree with this more than anything, but certain lyrics of the song I like to imagine are about bf/gf relationships, it's much more romantic and it fits the music better. But it's not about that. They wrote the song as if someone from a record company talked to them bout the negative control over the music industry.
I think it could've been one of the producers or someone "in the know" who he called a friend for telling them the truth, but also a foe b/c the wise man was playing for the wrong team. But he still...
I think it could've been one of the producers or someone "in the know" who he called a friend for telling them the truth, but also a foe b/c the wise man was playing for the wrong team. But he still gave them some good info.
Like "we don't want you to see, we come and we go." That could mean that their potential record company didn't want The Fray to see what they do to their popularity, their paychecks, and importantly, their music. All these ppl, producers, bosses, the top ppl of the record company have a say in what they sing & how it sounds and EVERYTHING and these people come and go. Anyone ever looked at all the producers & diff ppl who were involved in each song on an album? Here today gone tomorrow. No one's ever really there w/ them permanently in that business. So it'd be easy for them to get lost. They could record a song and the producer, maybe, could change it, and b/c they signed the contract, it'd have to stay that way. Or b/c the producer's in a different country or state working w/ another artist, it'd have to stay that way here today gone tomorrow. Secret evils that they don't want the band to know about.
The ppl in charge over those companies practically hold the world in their hands. They manipulate and influence what we hear from our favorite artists. The bosses pass on the necessary info to the new CEOs. Info that none of us "regular" ppl are supposed to know and so the corrosion of music continues decade after decade. It's always been this way and that wise person was telling them that when they're older they'll understand the imperfections of the music industry.
He told the wise man that because they know so few ppl in the buisness, telling him who they knew would only prove that the wise guy needs them less than they need him. And then Sir Wisdom told them that they, he and the big bosses don't give sympathy (think of Britney Spears, and artists that they force into getting hooked on drugs to continue releasing music) and that they should trust him, they should trust nobody.
And Joe & Issac admit to the wise man that they don't have honesty b/c there's stuff they don't want to say. What they didn't wanna say was that altho they just heard how the record company will push & pull and manipulate them into doing things Their way, they still want to go for it and try. Then they say they'll try to get out but they know they won't, cause the industry is evil and once you get in, most of the time it's like selling your soul to the devil, not literally, but when you're under contract, etc, you're kinda stuck.
Traffic is perfectly still. Could mean the conversation in that verse screeched to a halt. I think they made that verse romantic sounding so it could fool ppl into thinking it was about getting older or relationships. I doubt they would've gotten away w/ a song like this if they'd made it completely blatant. LUCKILY, it looks like the record company aren't forcing The Fray into anything or twisting their songs and such so woot-woot