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Rating: Since this is the first review about them, let me introduce them to you. Saves the Day is a pop-punk/pop rock band from New Jersey, formed in 1994. After their first two releases in '98 and '99, in 2001 they produced what many consider their best album: Stay What You Are.
Upon first listen, it sounds like all other bands from that era and genre, but thanks to something inexplicable, you'll find yourself listening to it over and over again. Noteworthy are the opener "At Your Funeral," "Cars & Calories," and "Firefly," but all the tracks are more or less on the same level. The tones lower with the ballad "Freakish" and the pleasing "Nightingale."
Chris Conley on vocals perfectly fulfills his role, delivering emotion with his youthful voice, a must for this type of band. The bass lines are very engaging, never predictable, adding depth to the riffs created by the two guitars.
Overall, it is a very easy listening album, suitable for everyone. Some categorize it under the emo genre, but discussions about this term are and will be endless. To me, it seemed like the usual teenage CD but with something extra; that something extra that will make us give it another listen from time to time.
It doesn't evoke the emotion of an emocore work and isn't as thrilling as a punk or indie album, yet it leaves something with the listener that is difficult to put into words.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 At Your Funeral (03:09)
This song will become the anthem of your underground
You're two floors down getting high in the back room.
If I flooded out your house,
Do you think you'd make it out?
Or would you burn up before the water filled your lungs?
And at your funeral,
I will sing the requiem
This song will become the anthem of your underground
You're two floors down getting high in the back room.
If I flooded out your house, do you think you'd make it out?
Or would you burn up before the water fills your lungs?
And at your funeral,
I will sing the requiem
I'd offer you my hand
It would hurt too much to watch you die
And you can bet when we mourn the death of you that night (of you that night)
They'll lay me on the dinner table
I will be the pig
With the apple in my mouth
The food that celebrates your end
And at your funeral,
I will sing the requiem
I'd offer you my hand
It would hurt too much to watch you die
And at your funeral I will sing the requiem
I'd offer you my hand
It would hurt too much to watch you die
04 Certain Tragedy (02:27)
And now I finally see that the further we go
We're only treading ground that we already know.
I could write you a song,
Send you a note,
Or empty out your trash
And buy a bucket full of diamonds
But even the most beautiful of all roses
Must someday crumble to dust and fade away.
It's certain tragedy.
So, it's on into the lonely nights and all the rest of it.
The empty space between me and the sunken walls
And feeling someone's hand around my neck
Choking away the life that I have left.
And I can finally see that the further I go
I'm only treading ground I don't want to know.
I'll probably hang upside down
From wooden rafters in my home
And look at old photos of you.
So, it's on into the lonely nights and all the rest of it.
The empty space between me and the sunken walls
And feeling someone's hand around my neck
Choking away the life that I have left.
I miss the warmth of the summer
When we were on our own,
But now it's winter and my bones are cold.
And now I finally see that the further we go
We're only treading ground that we already know.
I could write you a song,
Send you a note,
Or empty out your trash
And buy a bucket full of diamonds
But even the most beautiful of all roses
Must someday crumble to dust and fade away.
It's certain tragedy.
06 Freakish (03:47)
As I'm talking my words
Slip to the floor
And they crawl through your legs
Slide under
The back door
Rendering me
Freakish and dazed
Well here I am dont know how to say this
Only thing I know
Is awkward silence
Your eyelids close
When you're around me
To shut me out
So I'll go walking in the streets
Until my heels bleed
And ill sing out my song
In case the birds wish to sing along
And ill dig a tunnel to the center of the universe
Well here I am dont know how to say this
Only thing I know is awkward silence
Your eyelids close when youre around me
To shut me out
I'll make my way across the frozen sea
Beyond the blank horizon
Where I can forget you and me
And get a decent night sleep
Well here I am dont know how to say this
Only thing I know is awkward silence
Your eyelids close when youre around me
To shut me out
Well here I am dont know how to say this
Only thing I know is awkward silence
Your eyelids close when youre around me
To shut me out
To shut me out
(dont shut me out)
To shut me out
(dont shut me out)
To shut me out
(dont count me out)
To shut me out
(dont shut me out)
08 Nightingale (03:36)
And I will flail
under these lights,
that seep down from the bitter sky tonight
and I will kick
and beat my wrists together
and feel an ocean breathing waves,
feel them licking at my face.
Ceilings don't exist
and there are no floors beneath me.
If I were king
of this night,
would you become my queen?
And I hope, your majesty
that you like your position.
I'll do everything I can
to keep you by my side
and I'll stare off through the darkness
to find us a kingdom.
Just kiss me before I go.
I'll have to walk
a thousand miles
just to find the ground
deserving of your feet.
You could throw me down
and walk on me
and I'd just look on through my love
and through the haze.
And I hope, your majesty
that you like your position.
I'll do everything I can
to keep you by my side
and I'll stare off through the darkness
to find us a kingdom.
Just kiss me before I go.
The nightingales
are singing now.
They're calling out our
marriage to our subjects
on their knees.
Their jewelery is
thrown into the air.
They sigh at their release
as their shackles hit the ground.
The trumpets call out now,
we're home at last.
And I hope, your majesty
that you like your position.
I'll do everything I can
to keep you by my side
and I'll stare off through the darkness
to find us a kingdom.
Just kiss me before I go.
11 Firefly (02:51)
I said I'd walk you home
After our third round
Of pouring whiskey down
The barrel of our guts
Grab hold of your hand
We're up and we're out and
We're yelling through the streets
And I'm out of my fucking mind
And I know you're next to me
But I must confess
What's in my head
Keep pumping now
Legs to beat the ground
And our hearts to beat the band
Sky's on fire again
Run down this alleyway
Lightning bolts again
We become fireflies
Just flashing at the ends
Rattle garbage cans
Prepare to be ravaged
By our lust burning mad
To find that we've become
And I know you're under me
But I must confess
What's in my head
To me you are the light
From a lightbulb that breaks sometimes
And the tender warmth inside
Is released into my life
To me you are the light
From a lightbulb that breaks sometimes
And the tender warmth inside
Is released into my life
And it smothers me in flames
That lick and scorch my face
As the smoke reaches the sky
Know I'm burning tonight
Know I'm burning tonight
Know I'm burning tonight
Know I'm burning tonight
know I'll burn for you tonight
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