Lyrically Speaking for October 3

October 3, 2008 Aaron

Good Friday everyone! Today brings a new edition of lyrically speaking for all of you to enjoy. I wanted to bring it back home a little bit and let you guys know about a local band that you all probably have heard of. The band nine days had their breakout hit "story of a girl" back around 2000. I'm sure all most all of you heard it on your main radio stations where you live. Unfortunately nine days seem to be a one-hit wonder. But here on Long Island things are a little bit different.

Nine days started out as a local band that took the area by storm and want a very publicized contest to become the best band on Long Island. I knew the song "story of a girl" approximately 3-4 years before anybody heard it on the radio outside of the area. After they faded away from the national music scene they laid low around here too, but still continue to put out some material. Recently, the band put out a new EP with some great songs on it.

The new album's slow-motion life part one is a collection of six songs that sound really great. One of the top songs is an inspirational melody called "brand-new me". The music on the song is fantastic but the lyrics are even more powerful. I just heard this album for the first time last week and knew right away that some of the songs had to become part of the lyrically speaking series. I hope you all enjoy the song as much as I do.

From the band Nine Days, this is Brand New Me:

i could not change, i could not be what you needed me to be so i lay down my arms and i will fight no more give my wounds some time to heal so i cannot feel let me be numb so i can smile and fake it for a while

just give me faith and give me love let it fall from up above give me something i don't know that i do not recognize a brand new face, a brand new soul let me rise up from the old become someone you don't know that you will not recognize

and if i knew your memory looking back what would i see were you different on your own how could i know and is it easier to heal do you break now just to feel a little something after all and now something is gone

follow in your will that'll get there for you following behind and i won't ignore you i hear the voices in my head but i do not listen to them

just give me faith and give me love let it fall from up above give me something i don't know a brand new face, a brand new soul let me rise up from the old become someone you don't know

just give me wind upon my back let me say that i won't come back take me somewhere i don't know that i do not recognize a brand new place to call my own let me rise up from the old become someone you don't know that you will not recognize that you will not recognize that you will not recognize