The Fray is the second studio album by The Fray, released on February 3, 2009. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album in 2010. However, it lost to The E.N.D. by The Black Eyed Peas – personal opinion: not the big of a loss, if you know what I mean.
Drummer Ben Wysocki explained why the band titled their second full length album The Fray: "It initially came out of procrastination - we couldn't come up with a title! But the more we dug into it, the more we discovered that nothing sums up this record better than us. After having a record titled How to Save a Life, which an enormous rhetorical question, the only thing you can do next is present yourself in a really simple, honest, transparent form. We're saying, 'This is us and this is the music we're making now'."
Syndicate is the first song of the album and is the 4th single to be released. I think this song is about two people, a couple, that are going through a tough time and are trying to comfort each other and get a solution.
And all we know for sure
Is all that we are fighting for
Baby don't forget
We haven't lost it all yet
We are closer
Absolute is about love lost:
It's a kiss sits upon on her lips that waits for planes and battle ships
She wants to be a dancer and he has got a picture
On his wall and it's a sailor in a new port every night
Guitarist Joe King explained in publicity materials: "With success, you have a lot more drama. For me, it was extreme highs in career and extreme lows in a relationship. There were really obvious things to write about."
You Found Me is the 1st single from this album. I immediately thought that this was a conversation between the band/the singer and God.
Isaac Slade told The Sun February 6,2009: "I dreamt I ran into God on a street corner. He looked like Bruce Springsteen and he was smoking a cigarette. I had it out with him and asked 'Where were you when all this bad stuff was happening to these very undeserving, good people?'"
I can identify with this song. Sometimes during tough times I keep asking God what the hell is going on? If You exist, are you sleeping? Do you care at all?
Where were you
When everything was falling apart?
All my days
Were spent by the telephone
It never rang
And all I needed was a call
It never came
To the corner of First and Amistad
Say When is the 4th song. Listening to the lyrics I think the first part of the song may be about those times when you start to know someone and you start to like them. It describes all that feelings and you just think “say when” and I will be right there with you. The song become more strong when the singer gets that it’s not that simple. We all know when you’re falling in love it’s all pretty good but then when you actually want something of it is when the problem’s start, in this case the girl is “lost and broken”.
Turn around and you're walking toward me
I'm breaking down and you're breathing slowly
You say the word and I will be your man, your man
Say when and my own two hands
Will comfort you tonight, tonight
Never Say Never is the second single. It’s another love song about two people who are "pulling apart and coming together again and again".
Guitarist Dave Welsh noted in publicity materials: "Trying to have these two things coexist – traveling in a band for nine or 10 months out of the year, and having a wife at home who's trying to go about this other life she has – is fascinatingly difficult. If you could put your finger on one thing that's been hard or a challenge, that would be it."
We're falling apart
And coming together again and again
We're growing apart
But we pull it together,
Pull it together, together again
This song was included on the soundtrack for the 2009 film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Where the story ends is according to some people who were in a show about the frontman, Isaac, trying to convince his then-girlfriend and now wife to move from Seattle to Denver.
All we know is distance
Were close and then we run
Kiss away the difference
I know you hate this one
Enough for now is the 7th song from this album. I read on a website that Isaac said on a concert that it’s about his grandfather and when he left his wife because he didn’t got a sun. If you take attention to the lyrics it actually makes sense:
Years and years he waited
and a daughter came instead
But that's enough for now,
he should've never left you broken
He should've held you
Ungodly Hour is one of my favorite songs from this album, I think it is the softest song in it. It’s another love song, about a girl who leaves the boy, but she doesn’t need to say anything because he know it and her eyes say everything.
Don't talk, don't say a thing
Cause your eyes they tell me more than your words
don't go, don't leave me now
Cause they say the best way out is through
And I am short on words knowing what's occurred
She begins to leave because of me
We build then we break is a bit dark. It seems it’s about a guy who is angry at someone because they hurt a girl or another person close to him.
I don't know you but I know what you did to her
She told me and I happen to believe her too
Happiness, despite the name of the song, the last one of the album has a sad melody. Isaac said, In an interview, this was about his wife and "Happiness sums up the record for me. Every good thing is good because it costs something. Every yes has a no. When you get to 'that place' often it costs more than you thought but it's worth it"
Happiness feels a lot like sorrow
Let it be, you can’t make it come or go
But you are gone- not for good but for now
Gone for now feels a lot like gone for good
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