Brand new play crack the sky

The vessel groans The ocean pressures its frame To the port I see the lighthouse Through the sleet and the rain And I wish for one more day To give my love and repay debts The morning finds our bodies washed up thirty miles west Implies that they are nothing without their love.

They say that the captain stays fast with the ship Through still and storm But this ain't the Dakota And the water's cold Won't have to fight for long Refers to the SS Dakota of which sank years ago.

He alludes to the wellknown tradition of captains dying within their sinking ships. He can either be saying that he will not uphold to dying as love dies or figuratively dying as love dies, as in not experiencing life anymore or taking anymore risks in fear of being hurt again. This is the end This story's old but it goes On and on until we disappear The dying of love is an archetypal theme that has happened before them and will happen after them. This is the calm Calm me and let me taste the Salt you breathed while you were underneath Suggests she drowned.

Really means that she feels the sting of his words. We are drowning I am the one who haunts your Dreams of mountains sunk below the sea Refers to her "resting place" or life without him that she pretends to feel will be better without him. However, he haunts those dreams by being a constant in her thoughts. After the storm I spoke the words but never Gave a thought to what they all could mean He is either referring to his mean words that got them into this horrid entanglement or said "I love you" but never really gave it a second thought as the truth but now sees that he did in her absence.

Rest in the deep I know that this is what you want A funeral keeps both of us apart Metaphorically, she died while underwater and a funeral is hosted in her honor. However, it truly means that the death of their love is keeping them apart. This is the end This story's old but it goes On and on until we disappear This is the calm Calm me and let me taste The salt you breathed while you were underneath We are breathless I am the one who haunts your Dreams of mountains sunk below the sea After the storm I spoke the words but never Gave a thought to what they all could mean Rest in the deep I know that this is what you want A funeral keeps both of us apart Washed up on the beach You know that you are not alone I need you like water in my lungs This is the end paige-e on May 26, Link.

General Comment Sierra, I had someone in my immediate family die about 2 weeks ago with a drug addiction I mean it does describe the exact feelings. Brand New is amazing. Supurman on April 27, Link. Supurman, I'm so sorry for your loss. Thank you for your comment- it really is amazing how well Brand New described it. Song Meaning So, as to the question of the title, since I think the lyrical meaning is well-worn territory, with the all-but-certainly intended meaning rehashed a billion times on these pages I'm not sure I buy the assertion someone made that "Play Crack the Sky" is a reference to lightning.

I also tend to think there's no way it refers to the rock band named Crack the Sky. However, there is a song and album of that title released in '87 by this guy named Mylon LeFevre. The lyrics run thus: "Sometimes at night I close my eyes and wish, Sometimes I wonder if I'd ever be missed if you came for me, If you came for me.

I've never asked you for a whole lot of things, I've never begged you for the riches of kings, But I've one request and I hold it up to you Come on and crack the sky for me, Come on and crack the sky and take me home, Take me home, Come on and crack the sky for me, Come on and crack the sky and take me home, Take me home tonight. I know you've got me where you want me to be, I know you've got a plan to use in me but I long for you, I long for you.

So, now I'll work until you're ready for me, I don't know if I can guarantee that I'll never cry, never try to get to you. It kind of applies to the literal level of the narrative given by the lyrics; sailors who are facing their death. All that's left for him is for God to "crack the sky and take me home tonight. Utmost apologies if all of that has been gone through before, there are so many comments for this that I could never read them all to see.

And of course that interpretation of the title is up for debate. But it makes way more sense to me than any other attempts I've seen to nail down what Lacey meant with it. You're absolutely spot on with the reference to that song, and I have no idea how you managed to stumble across that without the back story.

However it has nothing at all to do with Jesse liking the song, or wanting it at his funeral or anything, actually the title is just intended to be a really obscure in-joke sort of thing.

I've got a recording of one of his solo shows where he explains the story behind the title, I'll try and paraphrase it as best I can 'cause he goes off on a huge parallel story about it! Jesse then goes on to say, when him and John had a band together in high school, they had a job working as stage-hands, for a christian group that toured round shopping centres etc and had musical performances and also people doing religious stuff, preaching to people or whatever.

It was a quarter past four in the morning when the storm broke our second anchor line. Four months at sea, four months of calm seas to be pounded in the shallows off the tip of montauk point.

They call them rogues; they travel fast and alone-- One-hundred-foot faces of God's good ocean gone wrong. What they call love is a risk, 'cause you'll always get hit out of nowhere by some wave and end up on your own. A hole in the hull defied the crew's attempts to bail us out.

It flooded the engine and radio and half-buried bow. Your tongue is a rudder. It steers the whole ship, sends your words past your lips, or keeps them safe behind your teeth. But the wrong words will strand you, come off-course while you sleep, sweep your boat out to sea or dashed to bits on the reef. I think this is about a relationship that is going worng, no matter what they try. The voice is desperately trying to hold on to what they've had, but he can't "Need you like water in my lungs.

When it says "You know that you are not alone" I think he means that the gril knows that he will always be there for her. Basically I think Jesse is using a boat and a ship wreck as a metaphore for a relationship falling apart the boat is the relationship Could be wrong though, could be a load of bollocks that seems to fit! I would like yall's feedback but I think this song and the whole album Deja Entendu have a lot of allusion to Moby Dick, the book.

The band talks a lot about the sea and I don't know let me hear what yall think. All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners. All lyrics provided for educational purposes only.

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