The Fray - How to Save a Life Album Discussion #1: This album made them huge! - Page 12

JamesLaffertyLover · 05-27-2008, 01:32 PM

^Ya, I never knew it was written for a family member. It's a good reminder that the band members are just humans like the rest of us.

**UltimateFan** · 05-27-2008, 02:04 PM

ITA with all that's been said. It makes it so much more special that they use their own experiences to make an amazing song, even if it may be a hard subject for them to talk about. You can really feel the meaning behind all the songs when they sing them.

~Soso~ · 06-08-2008, 10:50 AM

I've found this in a itw of Isaac :

About Look After You :

Quote:

My wife went to Australia for six months. At that time we were not married and just dating. She was far away from me and I could think about her and we talked like three hours long for two weeks. It was really difficult. I missed her a lot. It was right when we were recording the album since I was so lonely and bummed out and she sent me a video of all her friends down there. One of them said, (in Aussie accent) “Hey, it’s good to have your Anna with us. We’ll make sure we’ll look after her for you.” You know like “Oh somebody’s looking after her.” I wanna be the one who’s looking after her. So I got the idea. Kind of distance-inspired song.

About Trust Me, Vienna and Over My Head

Quote:

“Trust Me” is for my little brother and you know, all these people out there who are trying to take your mother and take your life, kind of the whole warning to him. And there was the song “Vienna,” about the girl that I broke up with. There was “Over My Head,” about the fight I’ve got with my brother. You know, for most parts, it was personal experience or real close.

Just love him!

**UltimateFan** · 06-08-2008, 06:14 PM

Thanks so much for that Sofia!

Such great stuff he has to say about all the songs. I love hearing what they were written about and knowing it was about such personal stuff is just amazing...they really share so much with us.

Should we do the next song?

JamesLaffertyLover · 06-09-2008, 11:21 AM

Sofia, thanks for bringing those over!

I'd read them before but it's so nice to read over what they say and really absorb the true stories behing all the lyrics.

Felicia, I think starting the next song discussion would be awesome!

**UltimateFan** · 06-09-2008, 01:20 PM

One of my favorite songs!

Quote:

"Look After You"

If I don't say this now I will surely break
As I'm leaving the one I want to take
Forgive the urgency but hurry up and wait
My heart has started to separate

Oh, oh, oh
Be my baby
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
I'll look after you

There now, steady love, so few come and don't go
Will you won't you, be the one I always know
When I'm losing my control, the city spins around
You're the only one who knows, you slow it down

Oh, oh, oh
Be my baby
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
I'll look after you

If ever there was a doubt
My love she leans into me
This most assuredly counts
She says most assuredly

Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Be my baby
I'll look after you

It's always have and never hold
You've begun to feel like home
What's mine is yours to leave or take
What's mine is yours to make your own

Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Be my baby
Oh, oh, oh

JamesLaffertyLover · 06-09-2008, 02:59 PM

^Awww, that's my ultimate favourite The Fray song of all time! To have somebody write lyrics so beautiful as those for you must be out of this world. The overwhelming love and support that radiates from the words "I'll look after you" just makes my heart swell so much that it might burst. It's the kind of song that talks of the love that usually only exists in the fairytales and it fills me with such hope about love and life!

**UltimateFan** · 06-10-2008, 07:35 AM

I especially love this line...What's mine is yours to make your own. It just really shows how in love the person is and how comfortable they are with each other. It really is a beautiful song that shows so much caring from one person.

JamesLaffertyLover · 06-11-2008, 09:39 AM

Aww, I love the line "You're the only one who knows, you slow it down".
It's as if the world could be completely out of control and insane and just having that one person by your side could make everything ok again! So much love.

**UltimateFan** · 08-14-2008, 11:49 AM

Anyone want to continue?

~Soso~ · 08-15-2008, 05:43 AM

Aww yeah I had forgotten

The next one is Trust Me

Quote:

Looking for something I've never seen
Alone and I'm in between
The place that I'm from and the place that I'm in
A city I never been
I found a friend or should I say a foe
Said there's just a few things you should know
We don't want you to see we come and we go
Here today, gone tomorrow

We're only taking turns
Holding this world
It's how it's always been
When you're older you will understand

If I say who I know it just goes to show
You need me less than I need you
But take it from me we don't give sympathy
You can trust me trust nobody
But I said you and me we don't have honesty
The things we don't want to speak
I'll try to get out but I never will
This traffic is perfectly still

We're only taking turns
Holding this world
It's how it's always been
When you're older you will understand

And then again maybe you don't
And then again maybe you won't

When you're older you might understand
When you're older you might understand

JamesLaffertyLover · 08-15-2008, 11:48 AM

Quote:

If I say who I know it just goes to show
You need me less than I need you
But take it from me we don't give sympathy
You can trust me trust nobody

I love the first two lines of this section. So bittersweet.

Did we ever have any explanation as to what or who it was written about?