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This song has been reviewed 30 times. Overall score for this song, 9.8.
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Brand New - Play Crack The Sky Lyrics

Song details
TitlePlay Crack The Sky
ArtistBrand New
AlbumDeja Entendu (2003) , Track 11
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Rank5,065 (+1,987) history
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Song lyrics
We sent out the SOS call
It was a quater past four 
In the morning
When the storm broke our second anchor line.
Four months at sea.
Four months of calm seas
Only to be pounded in the shallows
Off of 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 will always get hit
Out of nowhere 
By some wave and end up on your own.

The hole in the hull defied the crews attempts 
To bail us out.
And flooded the engines 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 it to bits on the reef.

The vessel groans
The ocean pressures its frame.
Off 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.
But the morning finds our bodies
Washed up thirty miles west.

They say that the captain 
Stays fast with the ship 
Through still and storm.
But this ain't the Dakota.
And the water is cold.
We won't have to fight for long.

This is the end.
This story's old
But it goes on and on 
Until we disappear.
Calm me and let me taste
The salt that you breathed
While you were underneath.
I am the one who haunts your dreams
Of mountains sunk below the sea.
I spoke the words but never
Gave a thought to what they all could mean.
I know that this is what you want.
A funeral keeps both of us apart.
You know that you are not alone.
Need you like water in my lungs.
This is the end.

This is the end.
This story's old
But it goes on and on 
Until we disappear.
Calm me and let me taste
The salt that you breathed
While you were underneath.
I am the one who haunts your dreams
Of mountains sunk below the sea.
I spoke the words but never
Gave a thought to what they all could mean.
I know that this is what you want.
A funeral keeps both of us apart.
You know that you are not alone.
Need you like water in my lungs.
This is the end.
lyrics submitted by Pete




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09-05-2004 17:06xcutxme0pen is offline xcutxme0pen 

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no, but i wish i did know. ive actually tried to figure it out a million times

i think this song is so amazing though. its so hard to keep a metaphor through the whole song and jesse does it So well! this is one of the best written songs ive ever heard
09-05-2004 17:15animal2 is offline animal2 

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yeah, i've tried a lot to figure it out but i have no idea.
10-05-2004 02:00youngandhopeles is offline youngandhopeles 

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I like this song alot, especially this part :What they call love is a risk, cause you always get hit, out of nowhere, by some wave and end up on your own pretty true if you ask me.

Does anyone know what exactly this song is about? I have some idea but the metaphor thing confuses me.
12-05-2004 00:55noruh112 is offline noruh112 

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wow i never really tried to listen for those as words before... but i tried... i got "wasshed up on the sea" for a lil while, and "this is the end", and "this is the call" out of it!

but yes, amazing song, has become one of my favorites when i used to not like it so much..

12-05-2004 18:54xcutxme0pen is offline xcutxme0pen 

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this song is about a breakup, and comparing it to being at sea and a ship crashing.
16-05-2004 19:04TbsBnTjtLp_iluv is offline TbsBnTjtLp_iluv 

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this song is soooo good. i can relate 2 it so much. i love how they use the ocean as like a metaphore thingy 4 breaking ^. the hole song is so good. and i love that part @ the end when they sing @ the same time. I LOVE IT!!!
22-05-2004 23:39punkitallup is offline punkitallup 

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The lyrics to this song on this site are way off...I mean are you people retarded.
04-06-2004 03:34shutup5 is offline shutup5 

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Does anybody else thing that this songs sounds a bit like Bright Eyes or Conor Oburst?
07-06-2004 03:33erin02 is offline erin02 

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this song is incredible--brand new have some of the most striking lyrics out there....jesse's voice is so unique...he is so talented, his voice has a different sound to it in each song...these guys are one of my favorite artists!
07-06-2004 04:12wakichik is offline wakichik 

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i just searched through a big pile of my empty CD cases to try to find the little booklet from that CD to see if it says in there haha but im so disorganized i couldnt find it.... if i ever come across it and it says, ill let ya kno...
06-07-2004 04:58cracked17 is offline cracked17 

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haha yea i notived that a lotta the lyrics were messed up and crap but im too tired to go try and figure it out. this song is rilly good and i like it alot. id say it was one of the good ones on the cd
11-07-2004 08:18meltorment05 is offline meltorment05 

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after the song ends around 5:15 someone says "never to see any other way"? a la beatles from "a day in the life" but i always thought john said "it never could be any other way". not sure if it is a beatles reference, too much of a coincidence not to be. you can also use software to clean up left and right speakers to see what they are saying, and also play the song backwards. i've done it w/ a couple of beatles songs to clean up what is being said.
11-07-2004 23:57tom_harris4 is offline tom_harris4 

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This song is brilliant. One of the best acoustic tracks I've heard. Its a great metaphor and I love the mixed vocals at the end.


For those who can't hear 'em I'll try to work 'em out, but it only says 'This is the end' in the booklet and then carrys on with the main vocals.

I'll post again when/if work it out...!
12-07-2004 01:04hollow_life is offline hollow_life 

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I love this song to death. It makes me cry.. This is what I get out of the background vocals:

This is the end.. This is the call.. We are the [something].. After the storm.. Rest in peace.. Washed up on the beach.. This is the end.. This is the call.. We are the [something].. After the Storm.. Rest in peace.. Washed up on the beach.. This is the end.

If anyone can tell me what that word is ([something]).. I'll love you forever!
13-07-2004 00:10tom_harris4 is offline tom_harris4 

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I tryed...but it gave me a really bad headache trying to pick the lyrics out!

I'll agree with Jenna there, but I thing it says calm and not call (this is the calm). I think it says calm earlier in the song and it runs with the sea theme. I could be wrong though!

I couldn't work out the [somthing] either! There has gotta be a reward out there for what that word is!!!
14-07-2004 03:59BrandNewRckr490 is offline BrandNewRckr490 

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the say "we are the answer"

I WIN!
14-07-2004 14:21tom_harris4 is offline tom_harris4 

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lol, nice

How'd you no that!!

here's your reward...

15-07-2004 00:03BrandNewRckr490 is offline BrandNewRckr490 

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w00t BEER! lol

i just listened really closely, took me about and hour but what the hell i was bored
15-07-2004 11:34tom_harris4 is offline tom_harris4 

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Lol, nice. Dedicated! I had sat there and listened to it about a dozen times and it just gave me a headache!!!
20-07-2004 01:51bRAndNewEv18 is offline bRAndNewEv18 

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wow i could never understand that before!!!
this is such an amazing song
21-07-2004 16:40hollow_life is offline hollow_life 

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doesn't sound like "answer" to me.. but, I could be wrong, too..
29-07-2004 17:39BrandNewRckr490 is offline BrandNewRckr490 

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It is, if u really crank up the volume u can tell
07-08-2004 05:43comedyinc is offline comedyinc 

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every year our school has a talent show,and this year a guy,who is famous locally cause he has a band that sounds like blink(who cares right)anyway he played this song at the talent show.....eough said......i was so mad that i practacally broke out in a swearing and yelling fit at the show because he butchered the song and he even got a standing ovation....and i asked him if he liked BN and if he knew what the song meant and his answer was,"no,it was just easy for me to play and sing",i almost punched him out!....anyway srry bout this post but i just had to tell someone about the talentless losers in my school!....anyway great.song.....great band
09-08-2004 20:14pasiphae is offline pasiphae 

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i love this song, it was the first that really struck me on the album.

The backing vocals at the end i can hear:

"this is the end, this is the calm, we are the wreckage after the storm, this melody washed up on the beach..."
Am i right or wrong here? (or just deaf?)
18-08-2004 18:14dweezil222 is offline dweezil222 

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Does anyone know where I can get tabs for this? I've been trying for almost an hour and none of my normal sites have 'em.

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