On “Sowing Season (Yeah)”, Jesse writes about his Great Uncle Leo, among other family members, who had gone off to fight in World War II. His Great Uncle was an American soldier on a transport ship headed for Japan. After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the transport turned around and...
[Verse 1]
Was losing all my friends
Was losing them to drinking and to driving
Was losing all my friends
But I got them back
I am on the mend
At least now I can say that I am trying
And I hope you will forget
The things I still lack
[Hook]
Yeah
Yeah
[Verse 2]
Is it in you now
To bear to hear the truth that you have spoken?
Twisted up by knaves
To make a trap for fools
Is it in you now
To watch the things you gave your life to broken?
And stoop and build them up
With worn out tools
[Hook]
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah, yeah! How?
Yeah!
[Verse 3]
Nothing gets so bad
A whisper from your father couldn't fix it
And your whisper's like a bridge
It's a river, spanned
Take all that you have
And turn it into something you would miss if
Somebody threw that brick
Shattered all your plans
[Hook]
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah, yeah! How?
Yeah!
[Chorus 1]
Time to get the seeds into the cold ground
It takes a while to grow anything
Before it's coming to an end, yeah
Before you put my body in the cold ground
Take some time to warm it with your hands
Before it's coming to an end, yeah
[Bridge]
It's coming to an end, yeah
It's coming to an end, yeah
[Verse 4]
Do you miss the blend
Of color she left in your black and white field?
Do you feel condemned
Just for being there?
I am not your friend!
I am just a man who knows how to feel
I am not your friend!
I'm not your lover! I'm not your family!
[Hook]
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah, yeah! How?
Yeah!
[Chorus 2]
Time to get the seeds into the cold ground
It takes a while to grow anything
Before it's coming to an end, yeah
Sowing Season (Yeah) was written by Vincent Accardi & Jesse Lacey.
Sowing Season (Yeah) was produced by Brand New & Mike Sapone.
Brand New released Sowing Season (Yeah) on Tue Nov 21 2006.
Before performing the song live, Jesse Lacey described the song as being about
… losing it all and figuring out how to get it all back.