The Fray
The Fray
The Fray
The Fray
The Fray
The Fray
The Fray
The Fray
The Fray
The Fray
The Fray
The Fray
The Fray
The Fray
The Fray
“1961” is the sixth song on the Fray’s third album, Scars and Stories, and is meant to literally describe the tension between East and West Berlin, but it also uses this event as a metaphor for relationships.
[Verse 1]
Two brothers, 1961
On a road 90 miles too long
Someone don't want us together but
We just keep on walking 'cause we're one
I got a voice and you've got a reason
For the glory, we sing our broken song
Take a side and I'll take the other one
Two brothers under one nation
[Chorus]
Wanna feel your love right now
Wanna see the night and feel the day
Ever try to touch somebody
90 miles away
But it won't be the same again
No, it won't be the same again
Yeah
[Verse 2]
Third brother, 1989
Got through it, opened up the line
Stand tall, I'll follow you this time
We're all just waiting on a sign
[Chorus]
Wanna feel your love right now
Wanna see the night and feel the day
Ever try to touch somebody
90 miles away
But it won't be the same again
No, it won't be the same again
I'll be with you until the end
But it won't be the same
[Bridge]
We're broken, we're battered
We're torn up and we're shattered
We turned back on each other
The moment that it mattered
But the curtain is shaking
It's bending and it's breaking
And I'll be with you in the end
[Outro]
But it won't be the same again
Can't go back to the way it's been
I'll be with you until the end
But it won't be the same again
It won't be the same again
1961 was written by Joe King & Isaac Slade.
1961 was produced by Brendan O’Brien.
In an interview with Mike Ragogna, lead singer Isaac Slade describes how the Berlin Wall influenced the song:
We wrote that song about The Berlin Wall and the division it represented in regards to one unified city becoming two cities still under the covering of a country… I think that’s how our rel...