“Out of Mana” is Science Fiction’s seventh song. This number is significant because, as the outro to “In The Water” suggests, this is also the length of the year gap between Daisy and Science Fiction – at least it was at the time the album was being finalised. It may not be a coincidence that this s...
[Verse 1]
First write down all of your fears
Then sweep the feathers you've preened
Next you should dominate
All the quests everyone said were too hard
At last you go back to sleep
[Chorus]
Don't back out
I won't back down
I want you to know
If you feel ready to go
I can read the rest to myself
Hell is digital
You're smashed to smithereens
[Verse 2]
We've filled out all of the forms
Translated all of our dreams
Freed love and perfected every inch
Weeknights down at the gym
Took every thing that we pleased
[Chorus]
Don't crack up
Don't lose touch
I want you to know
If you feel ready to go
I can read the rest to myself
Hell is digital
You'll pray to pieces
[Bridge]
Oh, great game creator
I'll praise player one
Infinite lives, in time will come up
[Instrumental riff]
Did we build Babel together
Jibber jabber, changing colors
Aliens talking to airplanes
Every time the place is the same
Hope we can do this forever
[Chorus]
Don't back out
I won't back down
I want you to know
If you feel ready to go
I can read the rest to myself
Hell is digital
You're smashed to smithereens
Don't back out
Or we'll back down
I want you to know
If you feel ready to go
I can read the rest to myself
Heaven's digital
You burn to little bits
I'm psycho
Can you know this?
[Interlude: wind chimes]
[Acoustic postlude]
I have to go
I want to say I'm in love with you
And I'm more than the skin of my teeth
I digress
I am a mess, I'm in love with you
I will go without water or sleep
I'm a ghost
I can't say I know that I'm even here
Or is this some eternal test
Holy crow
I'll never know if it's more or less
No reset
Out of Mana was written by Brian Lane & Vincent Accardi & Garrett Tierney & Jesse Lacey.
Out of Mana was produced by Mike Sapone.
Brand New released Out of Mana on Thu Aug 17 2017.
The short answer is “probably not”, but there may be a little more to it than that.
Jesse Lacey is a pretty avid gamer, who admitted to this fact in an interview for Drowned In Sound, from 2009:
DiS: Your song, ‘Sowing Season (Yeah)’ is on the new Guitar Hero game. How do you feel about that?
JL:...
Lightly based off of several video games
As user ishallgrow remarked, mana, in addition to a substance in World of Warcraft, is also a word found in Austronesian languages meaning ‘supernatural power’.
In Polynesian culture, mana is a spiritual quality considered to have supernatural origin—a sacred impersonal force existing in the univer...