Say Anything - "Alive With The Glory Of Love"

[duh5]

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There seems to be some hype building around these guys, and MTV seems to be pushing them hard lately. It's a feel-good track, but it annoys me, mainly because of the lead singer.

[duh5]

Video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfptieWXEJA

[Deleted]

I think we alerady have a thread for this one...I could be mistaken, though. This song is actually from 2004. My station back home played it in heavy rotation over the spring and summer, so I'm definitely burnt out on it, but it's so damn catchy.

[mike]

I Looove Say Anything

[Punchanello]

I love the song because its very "anthemic". His voice does annoy but the whole song is still good.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

tortuga said:

I love the song because its very "anthemic". His voice does annoy but the whole song is still good.

I agree. The song has such a great feel to it and overall I like it a lot, but his voice is bad to the point that it's distracting sometimes.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

I just paid attention to the lyrics. LMMFAO "When I watch you, I want to do you, right where you're standing. Right on the floor, on this dark day, right in plain view" followed with a verse about the.... ghetto? LOL

I LOVE THIS SONG!

[Punchanello]

Oh, I guess he really loves/loved the girl he wrote this song about!

[mike]

The first time I heard this song it was like a song I've known all my life. I love it.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

The lyrics:

“Alive With The Glory of Love”

When I watch you, wanna do you, right where you're standing…yeah.
Right on the foyer, on this dark day, right in plain view…oh, yeah….
Of the whole ghetto, the boot-stomped meadows, but we ignore that, yeah.
You're lovely baby, this war is crazy, I won't let you down…oh, no no….

No, I won't let them take you, won't let them take you…Hell, no no…
Oh, no…I won't let them take you, won't let them take you…Hell, no no…
No, oh no, no, no….

And when our city vast and sh*tty falls to the Axis, yeah…
They'll search the buildings, collect gold fillings, wallets, and rings…oh, yeah.
But Miss Black Eyeliner, you'd look finer with each day in hiding, oh yeah…
Beneath the wormwood, ooooo, love me so good…
They won't hear us screw away the day.
I'll make you say:

“Alive! Alive! Alive with love, alive with love tonight…”
“Alive! Alive! Alive with love, alive with love tonight…”

(No, I won't let them take you, won't let them take you…Hell, no no…
Whoa, no…I won't let them take you, won't let them take you…Hell, no no…)

Our Treblinka is alive with the glory of love….
Treblinka, alive with the glory of love! Yeah!

(Ok, speed it up….Go!)

Should they catch us and dispatch us to those separate WORK camps.
I'll dream about you, I will not doubt you with the passing of time….Oh, yeah.
Should they kill me, your love will fill me as warm as the bullets, yeah.
I'll know my purpose: this war was worth this. I won't let you down…

No, I won’t….
No, I won’t….
No, I won’t….

(Alive! Alive! Alive with love, alive with love tonight…)
Hell no, no…Whoa, no, I won't let them take you, won't let them take you….Hell, no, no.
No! No!

So is this a World War II song? It kind of sounds to me like the "ghetto" is a Jewish ghetto and he's playing the role of a soldier in love with a Jewish girl in hiding during WWII.

[Punchanello]

Yep, it is.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive_with_the_Glory_of_Love

Alive With The Glory of Love" is the first single off of Say Anything's sophomore album Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy. An "Intense and oddly uplifting rocker about a relationship torn by the Holocaust", the song is actually semi-biographical in nature telling about songwriter and vocalist Max Bemis' grandparents who were Holocaust survivors. In an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Bemis said: "I thought about what it would be like to be in love and be separated from the person you love, because these times are just as dire in a way. Anything can happen, in a war and terrorist attacks and cynicism and all these actors who oppose love."

I never really paid that much attention to the lyrics. I figured it was nothing but a really sexual song, but wow, there was more to it!

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

Whoa, that's deep. I have a new respect for the song now, and the lyrics are kind of captivating. It amazes me how upbeat this song is, considering the subject matter. I guess it does have a happy ending though, since the couple it's based on survived.

[tozion]

I like the lyrics, but the song just doesn't work for me. It's trying to be historical, but the song is anything but timeless. This will be dated in a few years. I just don't like the idea of doing a song about a historical event from the 40's with a 2000's alternative style because I don't think the story is easily adapted to current themes.

[mjb1124]

To me this sounds more like a mid-90s song, if anything. I found this song to be grating at first, mostly because of the vocals, but it's grown on me.