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Rating: When you're under twenty, you can have musical tastes as refined as you like, differing as much as you want from your peers, but age will affect them even against your will. But who cares about will. If an album pleases you, it pleases you.
So it happens that every now and then you stumble upon some very pop, over-the-top adolescent album, to the delight of those in that age group. If I had discovered The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus more than 2 years ago, they would have obsessed me in an incredible way. Instead, I discovered them last year, loved the debut, found the follow-up unlistenable, they revived themselves with an EP, and their last album leaves me indifferent.
As we were saying: Don't You Fake It, their most "fast-paced" album, if you can say so, among the three they released (excluding the self-produced demo and the EP "The Hell Or The High Water"), corresponds with their best record. Very adolescent indeed. Maybe those Red Jumpsuit Apparatus are also heavily criticized, after all, they do a trendy genre which I refuse to call by the name Wikipedia uses. But despite everything, I like them, they haven't bored me yet, and this album still appears frequently in my listening.
Absolutely nothing new, to be clear, it's not the album that lights up the bulb in your head, but it's a good recommendation for those around 14 to 17 years old (ages randomly guessed).
The first track "In Fate's Hands," one of the most fast-paced is, together with "Waiting" (the second in the lineup) and "Atrophy," the best on the album; the single "Face Down" also deserves a mention (very adolescent, but how many damn times do I say that word?) and the last one.
A negative note is the presence of two tracks even more sugary than the others, one would have been more than enough, but 2 are too many (Your Guardian Angel and Cat And Mouse, which taken individually are also good). But it's not that tragic.
The fall in style is represented by "Damn Regret," it's fine that we're in an adoles... damn... ultra-adolescent(?) album, but here it's exaggerated...
In the end, a good album, that doesn't aim too high, listenable and nothing more. Nonetheless, this virtual sign remains:
Adults abstain.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Waiting (02:57)
Oh
feeling sorrow
for all the things you had to steal and borrow.
Bring back the days we had before tomorrow
relapse and then collapse into yourself once more.
Waiting for this life to change seems like it's taking me forever
and I can't hold on. This life is breaking.
into the day this life is going to change seems like it's taking me forever.
And I can't hold on. This life is breaking.
into the day...
Void I can't fill.
The doctor tells me to relax and stand still
Prescribes me a new pill to quell my anger.
Wish I could make her pull herself up off the floor
Waiting for this life to change seems like it's taking me forever
and I can't hold on. This life is breaking.
into the day this life is going to change seems like it's taking me forever.
And I can't hold on. This life is breaking.
into the day...again....into the day...again
[repeat chorus]
Take time to contemplate who you are and where you want to go.
[2x]
03 False Pretense (02:29)
Oh...
(It's time to let it go)
The world's got a funny way of turning round on you
when a friend tries to stab you right in the face
Losing faith in everything I thought I hoped I knew
Don't sweat it, set on false pretense
Betray, you're not gonna be willing to change
Yeah, and it doesn't seem likely to fade
Betray, you're not gonna be willing to change
ca-ca-ca-cause you know
And Sacrifice
False Pretense, You'll learn again
Stop pretending, don't deny
False Pretense, You'll learn again
All along you know you thought you got the best of me
You were wrong and I'm laughing right in your face
I cannot believe you claimed you were my family
Don't sweat it, set on false pretense
Betray, you're not gonna be willing to change
Yeah, and it doesn't seem likely to fade
Betray, you're not gonna be willing to change
ca-ca-ca-cause you know
And Sacrifice
False Pretense, You'll learn again
Stop Pretending, don't deny
False pretense, you'll learn again
(Guitar)
(It's time to let it go)
I can't seem to understand it how you've turned out to be so cold
You tried but were caught red handed, are you happy with your role?
It's funny to me how you've turned into such a joke
And Sacrifice
False Pretense, You'll learn again
Stop Pretending, don't deny
False pretense, you'll learn again
So play the game until you run out
And play the game into my hand
06 Cat and Mouse (03:28)
Softly we tremble tonight,
picture perfect fading smiles are all that's left in site,
I said I'd never leave you'll never change
I'm not satisfied with where I'm at in life.
Am I supposed to be happy?
With all I ever wanted, it comes with a price.
Am I supposed to be happy?
With all I ever wanted, it comes with a price.
You said, you said that you would die for me.
We made plans to grow old,
believe me there was truth in all those stories that I told.
Lost in a simple game cat and mouse are we the same people as before this came to light?
Am I supposed to be happy?
With all I ever wanted, it comes with a price.
Am I supposed to be happy?
With all I ever wanted, it comes with a price.
You said, you said that you would die for me.
You must live for me too
For me too, yeah, yeah
You said that you would die for me…
Am I supposed to be happy?
With all I ever wanted, it comes with a price.
Am I supposed to be happy?
With all I ever wanted, it comes with a price.
You said, you said that you would die for me.
08 Atrophy (03:18)
Don't tell me this is your last chance to change
'Cause if you do, then you would be telling a lie...but...
I warned you
What could happen if you should decide
To live your life from 9 to 5
And I mourn you
For the detail that is left unsaid
Is a reminder of the time you bled
Return to days when you knew you still felt alive
Reveal the way you felt when you could look inside
They sold you
Everything you need to fix you up
And you feel good now but you can't wake up
They found a way to reassure you
(That everything would be okay)
Reach out today now I emplore you to remember who you are
Return to days when you knew you still felt alive
Reveal the way you felt when you could look inside
So you felt it, but you don't know
Why you can't explain at all
Why you felt it 'cause you don't know
No, you don't know
Break the walls between building atrophy
Causing all your problems to recede
break the walls between
(Break the walls between)
Causing all your pain
(Causing all your pain)
You'll never learn...
Return to days when you knew you still felt alive
Reveal the way you felt when you could look inside
Take Back
The beat in your heart
Why Fight
When you can't be bought
[x4]
(Break the walls between building atrophy
Causing all your problems to recede
Break the walls between
Causing all your pain)
09 Seventeen Ain't So Sweet (03:22)
Well, she never was the best at following the trends
Stayed one step above the rest and even though it seemed
Like the world was crashing on her
Didn't let it hold her down
Even hold her back
Oh no, whoa
Don't worry, you'll show them
There's a fire in your eyes
And I hope you let it burn (hope you let it burn)
There's a scream in your voice
And I hope you will be heard (hope you will be heard)
There's a fire in your eyes
And I hope you let it burn until you're heard
You're heard
Seventeen is just a test and I would recommend
That you live with no regrets and even if it seems
Like the world was crashing on you
You shoudn't let it hold you down
shoudn't hold you back
Oh no, whoa
Don't worry, you'll show them
There's a fire in your eyes
And I hope you let it burn (hope you let it burn)
There's a scream in your voice
And I hope you will be heard (hope you will be heard)
There's a fire in your eyes
And I hope you let it burn until you're heard
You're heard
Relax, girl, turn down the lights
No one can see you shining
Relax girl, it'll be alright
No one can stop you if you try
Point of rhythm is the fall await in time
To listen to the beating in your mind
And know that if you seek, then you shall find
Whoa
There's a fire in your eyes
And I hope you let it burn (hope you let it burn)
There's a scream in your voice
And I hope you will be heard (hope you will be heard)
There's a fire in your eyes
And I hope you let it burn until you're heard
You're heard
There's a fire in your eyes (your eyes)
And I hope you let it burn
There's a scream in your voice (your voice)
And I hope you will be heard
There's a fire in your eyes
And I hope you let it burn
Until you're heard
Until you're heard
Until you're heard
10 Justify (03:28)
Once there was a time when we could learn
all the simple pleasantries a follower should yearn
now all that I can do is watch them burn
and wish that I could save them all, or just one
See the Fake, everyday shaking hands of men, promising the end.
Hear Him Speak of all the things that we need to hear, to adhere
Justify, your secrecies that surmise your cries
I see the way you look around the bend
is it going to end, when?
The visions that I've seen have left me torn
between the resurrection and the prophecy unborn
I think that I will document the fall
and say I hate to say it, but I told you all
See the Fake, everyday shaking hands of men, promising the end
Hear Him Speak of all the things that we need to hear, to adhere.
Justify, your secrecies that surmise your cries,
I see the way you look around the bend
is it going to end, when?
Justify, your secrecies that surmise your cries,
I see the way you look around the bend
is it going to end, when?
Your side, choose wise
Your side, watch the change in time, when you whisper..
you still blame, is my message clearer?
Justify, your secrecies that surmise your cries
I see the way you look around the bend
is it going to end, when?
When you change your mind is it going to end?
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