My Interpretation Of Keep On Wanting

I'm aware that I haven't talked much about the album Helios. I've only talked about it when it was about to come out, when it came out, and in moments like those. 

Today I felt like talking about it though. Nevertheless, I'm not talking about the whole album at the moment, I'm talking about one song. Actually, my favorite one off the album: Keep Oon Wanting.

It's not a single, and for this reason, you don't hear many people talking about it, right? This song is underrated, to be honest. 

Saying that a song is deep and emotional would be something unsuaul and something to mention, if we weren't talking about The Fray, but we are. However, the message is strong in this track, it hits home. 

It's about going on, no matter how broken, how desperate you are. It's about opening up and starting to get back your life, starting to live again.

Keep on wanting, keep on moving forward, keep on fighting, keep on dreaming.

Analyzing "Over My Head (Cable Car)"

Hi there everyone! 

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 ^-^ 

2015 is almost over!

Hello there!

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

The Story of 1961

Hi everyone! 

Lately, I've been thinking in depth about this blog, and I couldn't help but feel disappointed wih myself, because I don't post as often as I should. And, actually I've said that before but at the moment I'm only posting a post per month, which I feel isn't fair for you. Due to that, I'm going to try to post once a week - if I see I'm too busy and can't do that, I'll post at least twice a month. It's not too much but it's way more than what I've been posting for the last eight or nine months. You have my word that I'll try my best. 

Okay, now, apart from that, let's talk about stuff related to the band this blog's about. Today, I'm talking to you about The Fray's song "1961", from their third album 'Scars & Stories'. 

If you know some History, that date will remind you of something, right? The Berlin Wall, exactly. It was built in 1961, and it was demolished in 1989, date which is also mentioned in the song. That can give us an idea of what it's about, can't it? 

Accordng to an interview from Isaac Slade for the huffington post, the song comes from a trip that him and Dillon took to New Orleans to try to do some writing. Before I go on, I'll remind you in case you don't know or forgot, that Isaac Slade travelled a lot to get some inspiration for songs while writing the album. Now, we're back to the song. So, they rented a house and they wrote a song about The Berlin Wall, and "the dvision it represented in regards to one unified city becoming two cities still under the covering of a country. They're both German, but in a sense, they were as far from each other as they could possibly be. I think that's how our relationships can be sometimes. Not to sound cliché, but we all as people build these walls that don't really come down until someone comes into our lives, tears them down, and says, "Enough!".

That is actually the feeling the song brings, the feeling of being "so close but so far away", which can mean physically or emotionally. 

My Interpretation Of Fall Away

Hello guys! I’d like to share with you news about The Fray, but this month there haven’t been any news to share. However, I’m feeling kind of melancholic today, and I decided to listen to some of The Fray’s old stuff, and I was just listening to “Fall Away” and felt like writing about it here.

The Fray hasn’t talked about its meaning in any interview, so all I can do is share with you my interpretation and thoughts of the song, much like what it means to me.

The song is about your past following you, even when you try hard to run away from it, and I believe that somehow every person out there can relate to that, some people more than others. I personally strongly relate to that, because I always end up letting my past follow me no matter how hard I try, and for that reason the song speaks to me in very personal levels.

Do you relate to it? Let me know below in the comments what it means to you! Below you can listen to the song:

My Interpretation Of Syndicate

Hey there! Today, I’ve decided to talk about the song “Syndicate”. Since I don’t know what inspired The Fray to write the song, I’ll talk about what’s its meaning to me.

I think the song is about how hard life can be, about how you don’t really know who you are, “what you’re made of”, until you see the darkest side of life. But, the song gives a clear hope message. “Don’t forget, we haven’t lost it all yet”, I think we all should remember that when we’re feeling down. Sometimes it feels like we’ve lost everything, but that’s not true, you still have many reasons to keep going.

So this is what I think of the song. I usually listen to it when I’m feeling down, it always helps :) You can listen to the song below and let me know in the comments what you think!

The story of Look After You

Hey there! How are you all doing? It’s been a long while since I last post a story behind a Fray song, and today I decided to do another one again!

Actually, this song I’m going to talk about is a really known one by people, from their first album: “Look After You”.

The song was written by Isaac Slade and Joe King, and it’s from their album How to Save a Life, from 2005. Isaac Slade says he wrote it to who was his girlfriend in that time, Anna, who later became his wife. Slade also added that he was with his band recording the album, and she was in Australia, and she sent him a video tape with her and some friends saying Merry Christmas. The friends were saying “we’ll look after her for you”, and Isaac said it moved him. That’s what he said in an interview talking about the song. Below I’m posting the interview and a piano version of it: 

Break Your Plans Official Music Video

Hey there! Guess what? The Fray has just released a new music video :) The video is for their single ‘Break Your Plan’, from their last album Helios. Have you already seen it? If so, did you like it? I enjoyed it myself so much, I loved it! It’s actually one of my favorite songs from Helios, so I loved the fact they made a video for it. Below you can watch the video in case you haven’t: 

What is Some Trust about?

The Fray – Some Trust

Well, The Fray has never talked about this song in any interview, but this is a good song to talk about in this new post. This song is from their Reason EP from 2003. The song is about the different kinds of people that there are in the world, that’s what can be appreciated in the song. We don’t know if there’s any specific story behind it, but who knows? What is surely very clear, is that all of us trust something, or someone, as The Fray is telling us in this song.  

Here you can listen to this awesome song: