Album: Deja Entendu (2003)

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• The time has come for colds, and overcoats
  We're quiet on the ride, we're all just waiting to get home
  Another week away, my greatest fear
  
  I need the smell of summer, I need its noises in my ears
  If looks could really kill, then my profession would staring
  Please know we do this cause we care and not for the thrill
  Collect calls to home to tell them that I realize
  that everyone who lives will someday die and die alone
  
  And we won't let you in
  Though we're down and out
  We won't let you in
  I wrote more postcards than hooks
  I read more maps than books
  Feel like every chance to leave is another chance I should have took.
  
  Every minute is a mile
  I've never felt so hallow
  I'm an old abandoned church with broken pews and empty aisles
  My secrets for a buck
  Watch me as I cut myself wide open on this stage
  Yes, I am paid to spill my guts
  I won't see home till spring
  
  Oh, I would kill for the Atlanti
  but I am paid to make girls panic while I sing
  And we won't let you in
  Though we're down and out
  We won't let you in
  And we won't let you in
  We don't want what isn't ours
  We won't let you in
  You win.
  
  And the coastline is quiet
  While we're quietly losing control
  Yes, we're silent but sure we inventened the cure
  that will wash out my memories of her
  "The harpoon is loaded
  The cage is lowered
  The water is red." Like you Writer/s: JESSE LACEY
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 7

• Ben from CaRe: Hugh's comment -- yep, the title is an analogy of the sports novel, The Moves Make the Man. In the book, the narrator's best friend learns how to play basketball, and by doing so, he also learns how to 'fake' out [other players], and this leads him to discover how telling the truth all the time can actually hurt his loved ones while 'faking it' and telling lies might help in certain situations.
  
  In his lyrics, Jesse describes feelings of homesickness, but while on tour, the band needs to 'fake it' at times for the audience since that is what they pay for ("I'm paid to make girls panic when I sing"). This internal conflict is analogous to the novel since the truth is he'd much rather be back home but learns to put on a facade for the fans/audience of their shows. And this is why the song is titled as such.
• James from South Buffalo, NyThis song has a few lines that are taken from/in reference to the Archers Of Loaf song
  "Chumming The Ocean". "The deep is in riot, the coastline is quiet", "And harpoons are loaded, the cage has been lowered. The mask's on, the diver is down, now. And they're chumming the oceans. The signal is sent, I think he's in trouble. The water is red, red, red, red"
• Wes from Pietermaritzburg, South AfricaThis dude is the best lyricist I know of, and this songs one of my favourite examples thereof, my other favourite being Sic Transit Gloria. "I'm an old abandonded church with broken pews and empty aisles." What an image!
• Hugh from Florence, ScI don't know if it has anything to do with the song, but the title is taken from a line in a Pulitzer prize winning book called "The Moves Make the Man."
• Aj from Sheboygan, WiProbably the easiest song to figure out the meaning to, but doesnt make it any less special. Always loved Brand New... always will
• Alessandra from St.louis, Mowell then. i never knew any of this.... thanks for being obvious, but i guess there are some dumb ppl that need explanations like this! :D
• Heather from Omaha, Newell no duh

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