Brand New, Okay I Believe You But My Tommy Gun Don't, Deja Entendu
When Elliot assigned this song to my I got pretty excited. It's one of my favorite Brand New songs ever. It is pretty amazing. I love the introduction, how it's just Jesse and the guitar. Then they throw in another guitar for the verse. I love songs that sound that way. It's almost a vocal solo. I'm not sure what a vocal solo is, so maybe it is one.
In the verses the lyrics mostly focus on one topic. How great Brand New is. Talking about being "heaven sent", "all you've ever wanted", "entirely smooth", and "the best at what we do." Ha. Even as I write this I'm listening to this and I realized that the beginning of the song isn't as much about that as I thought. At one part before the first choruses he focuses on a past love that he doesn't want to "write about anymore" and even wishes a terminal disease on her.
The chorus kind of conflicts with the bragging part of the verses:
"We're concentrated on falling apart
We were contenders, now throwing the fights
I just want to believe...I just want to believe..I just want to believe.. in us"
This part talks about being great and then falling apart on purpose. Apparently because it will help him believe in the band and what they are doing? Yeah, I'm unsure. That's how I roll.
As I said earlier I love this song and this album. I think that Deja Entendu is a great album. Deja Entendu in French means, already heard. I remember reading somewhere that Jesse said that the reason for the name was because they weren't coming out with anything that anyone hadn't heard before.
By the way I do wish that that was the way my voice sounded.
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