Now I have two videos for this song, just like the first Brand New post I did on here. The first video is just the song itself, and the second is a live performance. I highly recommend watching the live one, it's my favorite video of Brand New performing live and it shows their raw emotion they put into their music. It's so powerful.
Artist: Brand New
Song: "You Won't Know"
Lyrics:
Hey, hey, hey, Mr. Hangman,
You go get your rope
Your daughters weren't careful,
I fear that I am a slippery slope
Now even if I lay my head down at night
After a day I got perfectly right...
She won't know...
She won't know...
So pray little Kay loves God on a good day,
And you can't blame your mother,
She's trying not to see you as her worst mistake
And I wish that I could tell you right now, I love you
But it looks like I won't be around
So you won't know...
You won't know...
You won't know...
You won't know...
So believe in me,
believe, if you think I'll let you down
Well I won't
They can fire everything they've got
And when you think I'm sunk
I will float on and on
I have burned the bush that covered my light
Even though I'm scared I won't burn that bright
But you won't know...
You won't know...
You won't know...
You won't know...
We're never gonna feel as full as we felt
So let's go outside and we'll play "William Tell"
Take your time drawing your bead
I'll stand as still as you need
'Cause you're so good at talking smack, you heart attack
But you're the apple of my eye anyway
My smiling face
That's on my head
it's on a silver plate
So they say,
They say in heaven
There's no husbands and wives
On the day that I show up
They'll be completely out
Of their forgiveness supplies
And I can't use the telephone
To tell you that I'm dead and gone
So you won't know
You won't know...
Yeah, you won't know...
Yeah, you won't know...
Yeah, you won't know...
Yeah, you won't know...
Yeah, you won't know...
Yeah, you won't know...
Now, you might not catch it the first time you listen to this song, or maybe even never, but this song is about abortion. I am just now finding this out. I had to do a lot of research to figure it out, but it's definitely along those lines. I couldn't tell you if it is a personal account, or if it's just something that inspired them to write, but yeah it's about abortion. That's not why I'm writing this though. I've never had to deal with abortion, well, not really. It came up once, but it wasn't an option in my book.
Anyway, the reason I picked this song is because I have a hard time expressing my feelings. When it comes to girls, I can never tell them exactly how it feels. It was with the constant badgering of one of my friends that forced me to tell the last girl about how I felt. Not that I didn't want to, but just that I can't do it. I guess it's for fear of rejection. That's why I take the lyrics to heart. Even though they have a different meaning, I took them for my own.
P.S.
I decided to put the live performance in here at the bottom so you didn't feel inclined to watch it right away. I would rather that you have heard the song before hand and had a chance to read the lyrics and try to get your own understanding for them. So here you go:
