Brand New – In a Jar

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Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes.
Stones in your eyes, stones in your mouth.
Stones in your ears, stones in your mind.
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes.

We live in a jar and think the lid's the sky.
You're hoping for a savior on your cross outside.
Stars are just a million little fireflies.
The sun is just a hole; what is the light outside?

[backwards recording: The chariots shall rage in the streets]

No one saved me from my
Ten years drowning from
Darkness filled my life
Where you going?
Let me stay tonight

Maybe I should rest, but on the seventh day
I've created nothing and I'm wide awake.
So can I tie my key to your electric kite?
The rooster crowed twice and you kissed me goodnight.

There's too many saviors on my cross again.
I know I'm never gonna be a perfect man.
Everyone's an oyster with their grain of sand.
I love you most in summer, now it has to end.

No one saved me from my
Ten years drowning from
Darkness filled my life
Where you going?
Let me stay tonight

Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes.
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes.
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes.
I'd run a million miles if you were first prize.

No one saved me from my
Ten years drowning from
Darkness filled my life
Where you going?
Let me stay tonight

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Lyrics submitted by TheBurningInferno, edited by Mellow_Harsher, SubstanceMe

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  • -1
    General Comment:this songs about basically food that gets devlivered in a jar
    shit guys learn this stuff FUUUUCCCCC
    Flag Spicspanon January 28, 2013   Link
  • +4
    General Comment:Brand New has this kinda "secret" Ping account (it's an iTunes social network thing) where hey listed themselves as a user rather than a band like they could of. Under the pseudonym Bran New, the band has discreetly talked to some of the few fans that actually follow the account. Recently they changed their name to Trevor Brown... I don't know why. But that's besides the point. The reason I bring all of this up is because about a year ago, when they were still Bran New and active, I sent them a message praising Daisy (my favorite album of all time) and asking what the chorus to this very song was. I was dying to know and I had been trying to figure it out for awhile, as I see you gentlemen are trying to do as well. Well about two months later, the band ACTUALLY responded. Here is the message exactly as it was sent:

    " Hey, Mark P!

    I'm glad to hear you like the album man. Flattering.
    Your message caught me by surprise.. didnt know people could send us messages here.
    Anyway, here are those lyrics. Enjoy.. But dont think about em too hard..

    No one save me cause I'm
    Sinking, drowning but I'm
    Struggling to save my life
    Where you going? 
    Is it safe tonight?

    Cheers!
    Vin "

    Needless to say, I was amazed. Anyway, just thought I should create an account so I could share this with you guy. Clear up the confusion. In the words of FREAKING Vinnie Accardi, enjoy! :)
    Flag Diseasedmotoon June 07, 2012   Link
  • -2
    General Comment:The chorus is:

    someone save me
    'cause I can't keep traveling alone
    somewhere safe to hide out
    when there's no where that is safe tonight
    Flag WeLiveInAJaron April 23, 2012   Link
  • +1
    My Interpretation:Brand New has always had lyrics about their struggles with religion and god. This song is about all of those struggles.
    "There's too many saviors on my cross again."
    He keeps trying and looking and sometimes finds what he thinks will save him is many different things, but regardless, he always finds, or thinks he finds, what he thinks is wrong. He's blind and has no idea what will save him.
    "I'd run a million miles if you were first prize."
    If he could see what would save him, he'd do whatever it took to get it.

    I don't know if that makes sense or not, but thats how I take it.
    Flag misterpink14on January 27, 2012   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:chrous:
    "No one saved me from my,
    Ten years drowning from
    Darkness filled my life.
    Where you going; let me stay tonight"

    from lyrics.wikia.com
    i don't know if i completely agree with them, but they sound pretty close.
    Flag lemonade_stanon September 08, 2011   Link
  • 0
    My Interpretation:My personal interpretation is that this song's about how religion can be blind. Stones in your eyes and ears would make it impossible for you to see and hear what's really going on around you. Religion often blocks or ignores science because it disproves their own theories on things such as creationism.
    The lid to the jar is religion's close-mindedness to new things, even though outside the jar, there's a whole 'nother universe that's unexplored. Just my interpretation.
    Flag sdozemanon January 31, 2011   Link
  • +2
    General Comment:The chorus is definitely, "no one saved me, so i'll save...". This verse is preceded by "..now it has to end," so basically he saying that his relationship with God has to end - God didn't save him, so he is taking matters into his owns hands, choosing not to live in a jar - an altered state of reality - but he doesn't now where to go from here. And like SLT said earlier, it appears that God is becoming less important in a world where man is making more advances on his own, hence the electic kite reference.

    As for the rooster crowed twice and your kissed me goodnight, I think the narrator is essentially Peter from the Bible. Jesus said Peter would disown him three times before the rooster crowed twice. So the narrator is kissing God goodnight - abandoning him or disowning him - just like Peter.

    All in all, the jar is just an metaphor for the fake world that the narrator believes Christianity/Religion can create for believers - hence the stones blocking all of our sense (sight, hearing, taste) from what really is.
    Flag djn9on July 19, 2010   Link
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  • 0
    General Comment:Yeah "Let me stay tonight" is a good bet, sounds like he's saying that in quite a few live versions
    Flag chris-jerichoon March 25, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:i've seen a few live versions of this song, and having always thought the last line was "when there's nowhere that is safe tonight" but jesse definately says "where you goin'? let me stay tonight". for example: youtube.com/…

    so this is the best i can come up with (i'm not sure about most of it, but that's why i love the song)

    "no one saved me so i'm
    sinking, drowning for her
    come with me to hide out
    where you goin'?
    let me stay tonight"
    Flag forVaudevilleon February 22, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:It's "You'd run a million miles if you won first prize"

    Makes a lot more sense, kinda saying you'd do anything if you knew you could win.
    Flag NotTheEyeson February 18, 2010   Link
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