“Integrity Blues” is the title track for Jimmy Eat World’s ninth studio album. The main theme of the track and the album is being happy with not having everything entirely figured out. To “live as a person-in-progress”.
I wish I could hold
I wish I could touch
But a fool just wants and wants
It's all what you do
When no one cares
No one's chasing you
No one's making you
Spend lonely nights
Poisoned through and through
It's all what you do
When no one is there
It's all what you do
When no one cares
I get lost and think
Lose myself to dreams
The world moves anyway
The world will have its say
Lord, I'm wondering
If what you're telling me
Is I got work to do
Yes, I got work to do
I wish I could hold
I wish I could touch
But a fool
Just wants and wants and wants and wants
It's all what you do
When no one is there
It's all what you do
When no one cares
Integrity Blues was produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen.
Jimmy Eat World released Integrity Blues on Fri Oct 21 2016.
In an interview prior to the album’s release, frontman Jim Adkins explained the process behind writing “Integrity Blues”:
“Integrity Blues”, the title track, started off as an acoustic waltz kind of thing. I wouldn’t say we reworked it, but there was definitely a handful of different ways we could...