So, the album Battle Born seems to tell the story of a young Flowers meeting his first love, having this relationship crumble, and meeting the love of his life, Tana.
This song follows 3 songs about this struggling relationship (Runaways, The Way It Was and Here With Me) and finally it ends in this song.
I really love the lyrical connections in this album- all the songs link to each other not just in their basic ideas, but the use of the same phrases lets us know that these are the two same people.
e.g. "fallin' back on forever" and "Laughing with your girlfriends" link this to Miss Atomic Bomb (which is also linked to Mr. Brightside through him referring to himself as having had "eager eyes" - not to mention the integration of the brightside riff)
and "You got me drivin' through the streets for an answer to the mystery" links this to 'The Way It Was' ("I drove through the desert last night, I carried the weight of our last fight... it's like we're going under")
@phoebe9261, I would be curious to hear if you think the title of the album, Battle Born, is something of a double entendre. If the core of the album is a series of songs about a relationship that crumbled only to yield Brandon's eventual marriage with Tana, is Brandon's life/marriage "battle born" in a sense?
@phoebe9261, I would be curious to hear if you think the title of the album, Battle Born, is something of a double entendre. If the core of the album is a series of songs about a relationship that crumbled only to yield Brandon's eventual marriage with Tana, is Brandon's life/marriage "battle born" in a sense?
So, the album Battle Born seems to tell the story of a young Flowers meeting his first love, having this relationship crumble, and meeting the love of his life, Tana. This song follows 3 songs about this struggling relationship (Runaways, The Way It Was and Here With Me) and finally it ends in this song.
I really love the lyrical connections in this album- all the songs link to each other not just in their basic ideas, but the use of the same phrases lets us know that these are the two same people. e.g. "fallin' back on forever" and "Laughing with your girlfriends" link this to Miss Atomic Bomb (which is also linked to Mr. Brightside through him referring to himself as having had "eager eyes" - not to mention the integration of the brightside riff) and "You got me drivin' through the streets for an answer to the mystery" links this to 'The Way It Was' ("I drove through the desert last night, I carried the weight of our last fight... it's like we're going under")
@phoebe9261, I would be curious to hear if you think the title of the album, Battle Born, is something of a double entendre. If the core of the album is a series of songs about a relationship that crumbled only to yield Brandon's eventual marriage with Tana, is Brandon's life/marriage "battle born" in a sense?
@phoebe9261, I would be curious to hear if you think the title of the album, Battle Born, is something of a double entendre. If the core of the album is a series of songs about a relationship that crumbled only to yield Brandon's eventual marriage with Tana, is Brandon's life/marriage "battle born" in a sense?