“If anyone could make me a better person, you could, all I gotta say is I must have done something good”
Relient K, is definitely one of my favourite bands, so I really hope my review is not biased. The lyrics make the most complicated situations, that you can’t explain, understandable. “If home is where the heart is then my home is where you are” (I’m Taking You With Me) and “I'm racking my brain for a new improved way, To let you know you're more to me than what I know how to say” (Must Have Done Something Right).
“Must Have Done Something Right” and “Faking My own Suicide” are definitely the cutest love songs I have ever heard. “Faking My Own Suicide” is a story of how he fakes his death because he knows this girl loves him and when she says they would have gotten married at his funeral, he comes back to life and they’re in love. Same with “I Need You,” where it says “I need you, like you would not believe, you're the only thing I want, cause you're everything I need.” Songs like “Devastation and Reform” and “Deathbed”, are about being on the road to self-destruction, and in the end, thanking God for the fact that “failure is a blessing in disguise” and for the help through the pain. “The Best Thing” is kind of like the celebration at the end of the pain “It’s been a year filled with problems, but now you're here, almost as if to solve them, and I can't live in a world with out you now.” The songs “Come Right Out and Say It” and “Give Until There’s Nothing Left,” the titles are fairly self-explanatory, are about changing, giving all you have for what you believe in, and having no regrets.
So mainly, Five Score and Seven Years is like a story that takes you through experiences of love, pain, mistakes, solutions, and just plain happy days. It has good messages and morals throughout, like just staying quiet and listening for a change (Bite My Tongue) and making the best out of each day, not giving up and being the best you can be, living to be who you were made to be (“Up and Up” and “Pleading the Fifth”), while realizing that nobody’s perfect and we’re all bound to make mistakes anyway (“Forgiven”). Definitely an amazing album, I’ll never get tired to listening to it!
Release Date : Mar 06, 2007