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This is what i got from this song... | Reviewer: Mark F | 7/31/07

I DO believe this song is about a lover or a friendship.

The first verse seems to give a description of how dangerous a relationship can be and he compares it to sailing on the sea.

"What they call love is a risk, to always get hit out of nowhere
By some wave and end up on your own."

This quote seems to clue the listerener about this metephore between love and a ship.

"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 to bits on the reef."

This verse has to do with a comparison of how the actions and words you share in a relationship can be compared to the direction the boat is sailed. If you lie or aren't true it'll strand you in a relationship of nothing or just crash or end.

Then the next verse is about his undying hope....

"To the port I see the lighthouse through the sleet and the rain."

Through all the hard times(sleet and rain) he can still have hope to reach that glorious out come he's looking toward(the light house, or feeling at home)

but in the end it just wont work...

"But the morning finds our bodies washed up thirty miles west."

Then this verse i'll add my thoughts in between [ ]'S

"(This is the end.)
This story's old, (this is the end) but it goes on and on until we disappear.[they keep having this problem of falling apart but they'll still love eachother until finally it just ends]
(This is the calm.)
Calm me and let me (this is the calm) taste the salt you breathed while you were underneath.[i'm not sure but it seems like he's saying like let me know it'll be ok]
(We are the resin)
i am the one (we are the resin) who haunts your dreams of mountains sunk below the sea.[something so beautiful as love can die as well]
(After the storm.)
I spoke the words (after the storm) but never gave a thought to what they all could mean.[never knew what he was really saying when he said i love you]
(Rest here with thee,)
i know that this (rest in the deep) is what you want.[deep down he knows it whats she wants even if it's what "her head is telling her and not her heart"]
(Washed up on the beach.)
A funeral keeps both of us apart.[if this lvoe dies we can finally be apart and at rest]
You know (washed up on the beach.) that you are not alone.[i'm still always there for you]
I need you like water in my lungs."[but i just can't live with you, hence the metephore of sailing he's gunna drowned if he keeps her in his life]

I`m the answer after the sunk | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/24/07

when i first listened the song i thought it was just a good soundtrack for "The Perfect Storm". Having listened it more times i felt it was really so deep and so great. It still have this Brand New obssesive relationship theme around but at the same time it can be told in a different and mature way: the lost of a friend or a loved one in the ocean and the sadness thoughts about life and death. A great anticipe for "Jesus Christ"

I'll never fully understand this song. | Reviewer: A Rogue Wave | 7/21/07

Since reviewer "Matt" has said that the song is about a friend of Jesse's who died, the song makes more sense to me. the whole section:
"Your tongue is a rudder
....
dashed to bits on the reef."

is about how what you say will either save you or will shipwreck you and cause you to perish. "Your tongue is a rudder it steers the whole ship." he has said what will make him and his crew crash and at the same time, he has no one to save him. However, he has chosen this fate.
Later in the song he admits "I spoke the words (after the storm) but never gave a thought to what they all could mean." So he didn't think about what he was saying until after it was too late. So maybe... he never got to tell his friend what he wanted and so he feels he's failed, he's now shipwrecked and helpless, and can no longer tell his friend what he really wanted to say.
this song is not about a lover, but it is about the death of someone who he clearly loved.
The song is about regrets, and not being able to change what's been done or said; it's about wanting to be with someone who's unreachable, except through death.
"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."
He had so much more to do, but did not get to. Maybe he is relating to when you die and have not set everything the way you wanted to before you left. Or someone you loved died, but you had much more to say. you said something without even thinking, and they died, you can't go back and tell them--you're shipwrecked with no chance of being saved.

"i know that this (rest here with thee) is what you want.
(Washed up on the beach.)
A funeral keeps both of us apart.
You know (washed up on the beach.) that you are not alone.
i need you like water in my lungs.
(this is the end.)"

This is what his friend wants: for him to die too, so they can be together. a funeral keeps them apart: his friend's funeral. the friend is not alone, because he is drowning. "I need you like water in my lungs" He wants to die to be with his friend; therefore he needs the water to die; therefore, he needs this friend so badly that he is willing to die if it means seeing them again.

this song is so deep, it really touches me.
i'm sure my interpretation doesn't make sense half the time, but i figured i'd share it with people who love the song like i do.
-Jenny

Watery Lungs! | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/19/07

My biological understanding is that you do actually need moisture (water) in the lining of your lungs for them to function effectively, i.e. gaseous exchange so i guess without moisture in your lungs it would be dangerous to your health (inefficient gaseous exchange consequences etc). Therefore maybe this girl (if its about love) or his friend (if its about a friend who died) is what keeps/kept him alive???

Just a thought anyway!! :)

water in my lungs | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/14/07

ok first he is saying let me taste the salt you breathe while you were underneath... and he also says that i know that you are not alone... and i need you like water in my lungs is saying he is going to drown himself too... oh and he says a funeral keeps both of us apart and that is his funeral because he is not dead yet...

fiction | Reviewer: fool | 6/30/07

I was knew a guy who told me he wanted to write a book called play crack the sky at this point in time i didnt know this song, he said the book was about a person who had been shipwrecked etc. tonight i learned there was a song called play crack the sky and i looked up the lyrics. This guy is a tool.

Need you like water in my lungs? | Reviewer: Samuel M. | 6/23/07

I lived a situation that made feel that line in its deep meaning.

" I Need You " = His love for the girl
"Like Water In My Lungs" = Deadly, dying

The singer says that he loves the girl, that he needs her. However, that love is impossible and just makes him suffer, it kills him. I figured out that maybe that girl didn't love him and that is why he felt so much pain.

My take on this song | Reviewer: Amanda loves brand new | 6/23/07

Being a long-time fan of Brand New that I am, I too believed that this was a song maybe about a bad break-up and how he (possibly Jesse) is weaning himself from the girl that he needs but knows he shouldn't. But, now I am seeing another theory come to light. Maybe it is more of a mysterious song than I thought.

Think of a lone captain on a dark and tumultuous night in the middle of the ocean, with nothing but his ship, which is tattered and has holes in the hull that are filling up quickly. He sent out and S.O.S. call, but the engines and radios are buried by now. He is already miserable because he is lost at sea, having had his crew taken away from him by a bitter storm and losing his wife to a house fire, but only to find out that the house fire wasn’t at their house, it was at her lover’s. He gazes off and dwells on life; he doesn’t even care if the vast waters decide to take him. Love is a risk and so is living when you’re in a state of complete desolation. Suddenly, he sees a flash of beautiful light in the water and then it disappears. It jogs him from his dangerous state of mind. He examines the water where the light came from and sees nothing. His unstable vessel wavers and he begins to be terrified by the strange luminance that hasn't presented itself again. As he regards the water, the boat creaks and sinks a bit lower from the pressure of the waves. He thinks about how your mouth is like a stabilizer, that helps you or hurts you and can either take you or leave you on your own. It begins to storm again and he is sinking lower still. Before long he is waist high in freezing water, but as a captain he refuses to abandon his ship. He feels remorse and wishes for one more day to repay debts and make amends. It’s typical, having your boat and life swept out from beneath you to be smashed into bits. He is near drowning now, but something flashes from below and grips onto him and takes him away. He finds himself 30 miles west and is able to see a lighthouse. This story is old, but it goes on and on. It was a magnificent mermaid who saved him. She is forevermore the one who will haunt his dreams of mountains sunk below the sea. A funeral has kept both of them apart. He so longs to see and thank the beautiful creature that rescued him, but is left with only the bitterness of salt from the sea. He needs her like water in his lungs.

man... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/25/07

maaaaannnnn i think he is saying that who ever the song is about... the only way he can be with them is by dieing.... so he needs them like water in his lungs...water being appropraite cause of the sinking ship story

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