Brand New – Untitled 09

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Please say you’ll come along tonight
Please sing the words we love
Don’t say that you forgot them
Don’t keep the hand we’ve come to hold
I know you want to
Untie this rope and let it go

Please pose my skeletal remains
Give them a working pen
And I will live forever
Please let them love me though I fade
I know you want to
I know you want to
I know you want to run away

We're burning our own tonight
No single spies when sorrows come
They come on battalions
We're finding our own tonight
A little light to keep it on
Our own battalion

Please keep the sounds from running out
Please let our steps fall soft
Keep them from hearing our talk
Please let some hope come with the day
I know you want to
I know you want to
I know you want to run away

We're burning our own tonight
No single spies when sorrows come
They come on battalions
We're finding our own tonight
A little light to keep it on
Our own battalion

And I know you want to
And I know you want to
I know you want to run away

And so we watch the time we keep
You know that I am swift
You know that I am quick
You know that I am fast asleep

We're burning our own tonight
No single spies when sorrows come
They come on battalions
We're finding our own tonight
A little light to keep it on
Our own battalion

And I know you want to
And I know you want to
And I know you want to run away

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    General Comment:Haha good to see that I'm not the first to be reading Hamlet in class and catch the quotation.
    Flag Brendudeon December 07, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:My understanding was always that song is about when Vin was thinking of quitting the band, so they wrote this song about how the band couldn't go on without him. That's why it's called "The Edge Takes Over for Vin," because The Edge (from U2) would take over his spot in the band (jokingly, of course).
    Flag joe.is.cool12on July 22, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:in addition to the Hamlet reference, the lyrics //please pose my skeletal remains / give them a working pen / and I will live forever / please let them love me though I fade// are thematically similar to some of Shakespeare's sonnets, which talk about achieving eternality through his (Shakespeare's) writing.
    Flag honolulublueson January 07, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:is it just me or did ANGELS AND AIRWAVES steal this??
    Flag stickman78114on October 22, 2009   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:"we're burning our own tonight" does sound like "so what did you learn tonight" from archers! to whoever said that. go you.
    Flag skijornon January 29, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Ah it's Shakespeare! Classy.
    Flag avanineglecton November 09, 2008   Link
  • -2
    General Comment:I'm not sure if anyone else heard or wrote this

    but when the chorus kicks in I am very reminded of Archers from their most recent album, "What did you learn tonight?" not only in similar sounding lyrics but the guitars in general

    Also I think "my signal spikes when sorrows come" makes more sense, but I just don't hear it. I hear single spies. Which makes no sense.

    otherwise i have no idea what the lyrics mean. so much for songmeanings.
    Flag avanineglecton November 09, 2008   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:I don't think:
    "We're finding our own tonight
    A little light to keep it on
    Our own battalion"
    Is correct.

    I hear:
    "We're burning our oil tonight
    A little light to keep it on
    Our own battalion"

    And I think that makes more sense.
    Flag HiQKid2on April 16, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Looks like two people actually hit it before me...never noticed that...anyway...
    Flag _patrickon April 14, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:ripkirl, danielle, dejanintendo and lulu - I posted about the Hamlet connection already...last post on page two haha. Haven't been on here in a while...good to see the Brand New discussion is still going (and that these lyrics were finally fixed)...
    Flag _patrickon April 14, 2008   Link

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