In Fate's Hands

Album: Don't You Fake It (2006)
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Songfacts®:

  • In this song, the band is remembering their days when they were just starting out, writing songs and performing around Jacksonville, Florida. It's very aspirational: They wrote it in 2004 when they were still struggling. They were playing to very small crowds, but still, they were making music and energized.

    When the band got a record deal and had a hit in 2006 with "Face Down," "In Fate's Hands" became a theme song for the band, showing how they manifested their success. The song wasn't released as a single but holds a lot of meaning in the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus universe. It's one of the songs they almost always include in their setlists.
  • "In Fate's Hands" is the first song on The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus' debut album, Don't You Fake It. The album title comes from a line in the song: "Come dance with me and don't you fake it."
  • The title doesn't show up in the lyric. It was chosen in part because two of their band members, Elias Reidy and Joey Westwood, were previously in a band called "In Fate's Hands."
  • The song was originally called "Ass Shaker," which is how they labeled it when they included it on a demo they made in 2004 to help them land a record deal. It's one of six songs from that demo that made it onto the Don't You Fake It album.

Comments: 2

  • Ashley from Buffalo, NyThis is one of my favorite songs by this band and a I also like Misery Loves It's Company
  • Aaron from New Hampton, IaThe song was Originally Titled "A** Shaker" but the band changed it to In Fate's Hands because of the record company.
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