Yellowcard frontman Ryan Key guides us by the inspiration behind the band’s newest album ‘Higher Days’, out October 10 by way of Higher Noise Music.
Higher Days
“‘Higher Days’ is a tune about somebody in your life who refuses to just accept duty for their very own errors. You understand their very own shortcomings, and when you don’t need to fall prey to that negativity and let that adverse power into your life, you additionally need to want them nicely. You need to hope for the very best for his or her future and hope that sometime they discover peace.”
Take What You Need
“‘Take What You Need’ is a tune for anybody who finds themselves in a scenario the place you’re simply giving a lot of your self, perhaps an excessive amount of, and also you’re receiving nothing in return. I discovered a method in a variety of songs to supply a method out, an answer, flip it constructive ultimately. And this tune just isn’t that. That is for somebody who’s simply going by it, you realize, it’s about recognizing that you just’re in that cycle and you can’t get out of it.”
Love Letters Misplaced (ft. Matt Skiba)
“In Yellowcard, I feel the 2 greatest Alkaline Trio followers can be Sean (Mackin, violinist) and myself. We spent hours within the van driving across the nation listening to Alkaline Trio. When Travis Barker, who produced and performed drums on the report, heard us speaking about that, he type of simply stated, ‘Would you like me to see if Matt will sing on the tune?’ And all of us simply laughed out loud and stated, ‘Effectively, sure, after all we’d. We might be past stoked if he was part of it’. So personally, that is one in all my favourite songs on the report.”
actually i
“‘actually, i’ is a tune about household, concerning the future, however then additionally honing in on the second that my son was born, and the way each single a part of me was modified instantly. However what was cool about writing the lyrics to this tune was I discovered myself additionally penning this for my spouse too, as a result of this tune is basically about our household unit and my very own journey by overcoming that concern and anxiousness.”
You Broke Me Too (ft. Avril Lavigne)
“We knew we wished to have an enormous monster ballad on this report, much like a tune like ‘Solely One’, 20 plus years in the past on ‘Ocean Avenue’, and ‘You Broke Me Too’ turned that tune. However by no means did we think about that we’d land a visitor vocal function from Avril Lavigne, who’s on this tune. And I feel it’s simply one other second on this report that’s so particular. It’s only a actually, actually cool and distinctive second for Yellowcard.”
Metropolis Of Angels
“We’ve a tune from a report known as ‘Lights And Sounds’ that got here out in 2006 known as ‘Metropolis Of Devils’ about, principally, the adverse influence that have had on me at the moment in my life, in 2006. However I did discover a technique to discover the nice issues concerning the metropolis of Los Angeles and what it’s dropped at my life, the place I’m now, the place we’re as a band. And I actually, actually love how ‘Metropolis of Angels’ turned out.”
Bed room Posters
“I feel that is such a particular tune for our band. ‘Bed room posters’, for me, is a tune, lyrically, the place I wished to return into the previous. I wished to consider leaving my household behind, the results of that, however I wished to put in writing it from my viewpoint now, not essentially attempt to sound like I used to be writing a tune after I was 20 years previous.”
Pores and skin Scraped
“It’s about forgiveness. It’s about permitting every of us to be ourselves, and giving one another the house to create, and simply being open with one another and trustworthy with one another. And I feel that’s actually what we’re constructing the muse of the way forward for Yellowcard on. So it is a actually essential tune, lyrically for me.”
Barely Alive
“‘Barely Alive’ is the primary tune we wrote collectively for the album. It’s the primary tune we demoed with Travis Barker. It’s the tune that lit the spark for this entire factor to be potential. This isn’t the tune that talks about fixing it. This isn’t the tune that figures out the place we go subsequent. That is the tune that lives in that second and tries to type out why that is taking place, why we wanted to step away from the band.”
Large Blue Eyes
“The final tune on the report. It’s an acoustic tune. I feel it was essential for us to get an acoustic tune, and it is a particular one. Lyrically, I wrote this tune for my son and all of the ways in which I’ve modified since he got here into my life and got here into the world. That second the place he was minutes previous, and simply holding my finger together with his little hand, and he’s filled with pleasure. He has proven me how potential it’s to alter.”
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