This blog is entirely dedicated to the pop rock/piano rock/alternative rock band from Denver, CO, The Fray. I post here songs' meanings, interviews, interesting facts, news & more!
Have you ever wondered what Trust Me was about? Well, despite the fact that a song can mean anything and everything at the same time, here's what the song was written about, accoring to Joe King, guitarist and back-up vocalist of The Fray:
"It's the story from the early days of The Fray - when we didn't have a label and you didn't know who to trust, and people were telling us which direction to go in. It's a song about the feeling of almost being alone, despite there be a lot of people around."
All that said, the song is about trying to follow the correct path, trying to make their dreams true, but having people driving you crazy while all you try to do is to do the right thing. After all, that's what happens in life whenever you try to do something you'd never done before.
The Fray has joined Firefly Music Festival, whose purpose is to help save kids of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Also, others artist and supportes are performing at this festival, such as blink-182, Kings Of Leon, Of Monsters & Men...
Do you want to support this case? You can find out here how to help!
Hi guys! You better prepare your schedule, because The Fray has already announced several dates in which they will be playing this summer, and you dont' want to miss them!
June 9th, they will be playing Basilica Block Party in Minneapolis, if you want more info click here!
June 25th, they'll be playing in Ranivia Festival with Gavin Degraw, here's the info of the show!
Last, but not least, July 22-24th, they will be playing in their hometown, Colorado, here you can find the info!
Today, while I was listening to the song Over My Head (Cable Car), I just started to analyze the song at the same time. Suddenly, I realized that maybe it would be interesting to share that with you guys. Without further delay, I'm going to analyze this song keeping in mind the story behind it, which can be found in this post: http://everythingaboutthefray.blogspot.com.es/2013/08/the-story-of-over-my-head-cable-car.html
"I never knew, I never knew that everything was falling through, that everyone I knew was waiting on a queue to turn and run when all I needed was the truth but that's how it's got to be. It's coming down to nothing more than apathy. I'd rather run the other way than stay and see the smoke and who's still standing when it clears."
As far as I'm concerned, this can be interpreted considering the two versions (let's call it that way) of what happened between Isaac Slade and his brother Caleb - which is what the song's about.
- On the one hand, the person who's "talking" could be Caleb, who was kicked out of the band, who's basically saying that he didn't expect that, he wasn't expecting to be kicked out of the band, and it comes to a point where all he wants to do is run away and escape that situation. Probably all he neede was someone to just tell him things as they were.
- On the other hand, the person who's talking could be Isaac, who's in a complicated situation since it's not easy to kick your brother out of a band you're in, and he ends up just feeling apathy. Also he needs to escape that stressful situation.
"Everyone knows I'm in, over my head, over my head. With eight seconds left in overtime, she's on your mind, she's on your mind."
What's to be in over your head? It's when you're in a situation that's out of your hands, that is more than what you can control. This is exactly what happened to Isaac in that moment. Also, when the song says "she's on your mind", it refers to the band - the band was in Caleb's mind.
"Let's rearrange, I wish you were a strange and I could disengage. Just say that we agree and then never change, soften a bit until we all just get along. But that's disregard, you find another friend and you discard. As you lose the arguments in a cable car. Hanging above as the canyon comes between."
The first lines talk about how the argument also went along with the issue that they're brothers. It's not the same if you argue with a friend that you can just follow different pathss than when it's someone you have to coexist with whether you want it or not.
Then, the line that mentions a cable car clearly refers to Caleb's nickname, which is cable car. Also, the last line probably makes reference to Colorado, the place they're from, since it talks about a canyon, which could be the Grand Canyon.
"And suddenly I become a part of your past, I'm becomming the part that don't last. I'm losing you and it's effortless. Without a sound, we lose sight of the ground in the throw around. I never thought that you wanted to bring it down. I won't let it go down until we torch it ourselves."
This part mentions the fact that, after the argument, some distance separated the brothers. Isaac's reaction to this is not giving up and trying to fix the situation between the two of them.
So, this is it guys! I hope you all liked it ;) It's the first time I try doing this, for this reason, I'd like to know whether you liked it and if you'd like me to do this with other songs! Let me know in the comments below ^-^
I have very interesting news for you! (If you didn't know what I'm about to say before I said it, of course)
Dave Welsh and Ben Wysocki have a side project, called Rams, and their debut EP is out now. The EP is pretty good and catchy, you should give it a try and check it out, you won't be disappointed ;)
We love documentaries, don't we? Well, I don't know if you like animal documentaries, or history documentaries and so on, but I'm quite sure you do love The Fray's documentaries! I'm talking in plural, you noticed that, didn't you? Well, Fair Fight isn't the only documentary which our guys have made.
Maybe you knew that before reading this post, but, hey, maybe you didn't know and you're just finding it up! The documentary I'm talking about is How to Save a Life - The Story.
It's a really interesting documentary since they talk about the beginnings of the band, how it was formed, the making of their first album, talking about little things about themselves, songs and the album itself.
If you haven't watched it, go watch it because you won't regret it - you'll really enjoy it. Also, if you have watched, why not watching it again? ;)
I was thinking of making a review of what it has been this year like for The Fray, but they haven't been much online and there haven't been many news from them. They went on tour last summer and they started writing their new record but that's basically it - there's not much more to say!
However, I've been thinking and I've just realized that this is the third year this blog is active because I created it in 2013, so this blog is being here for a pretty long while. Also the blog is really close to 15K reads which is so sick - thank you so much guys ^-^
I didn't quite know what to do this post about, but I wanted to make it somehow important since it's the last one of the year and I felt like it had to be special. Checking my YouTube playlists I found some videos that gave me a cool idea: sharing with you songs that The Fray has played live but were never officially released.
The songs I found or could remember about were three: The Fall, Scars & Stories and Think It Over. The three of them are very beautiful songs that I personally hope that someday the guys make into a studio version - who knows?
By the way, I hope you guys had a wonderful year and that the next year is awesome for y'all - happy new year! My best wishes xx
