I anticipated TDAGARIM for so long. I wanted it to come out so bad and when Brand New finally put Sowing Season (Yeah) on their MySpace I was like "…Oh. Great." It's not that it was a bad song (it's my number 26), I just thought they had done better in the past. But then, the entire CD came out and of course I was going to buy it. I couldn't judge the whole CD by one song. I played the CD in order and Millstone was the first I had heard other than Sowing Season. I was in awe. Brand New had done it again. Why on earth would they put Sowing Season as the single and not Millstone? Brand New released this song as the last single for the album. My mom claims that she had heard it on the radio, but I have yet to see proof. Isn't it pathetic that I play Brand New so much, even my mom knows the music? Well that’s beside the point.
Millstone is a beautifully worded song. It is about a struggle through life, comparing it to how life used to be to how it is now. The music is a continuation from Sowing Season. It goes right from one to the other. I used to be such a burning example. I used to be so original. I used to care I was being cared for, made sure I showed it to those that I love. I used to sleep without a single stir. Cause I was about my father's work. Jesse Lacey, as you may know, has 7 brother and sisters. He says that he used to set good examples, perhaps for his siblings, but he doesn't try to anymore. I don't agree that he USED to be original when it comes to his writing. I'm not sure about other things.
The way it sounds, Jesse was brought up as a good boy. Then maybe he was surrounded with the wrong crowd (maybe like the hoodlums from Jaws Theme Swimming?!) and he became this person he didn’t know anymore. Right before the chorus starts, Brian Lane takes a chance with one loud big huge THUMP on the drums. It kind of scares you at first. It makes your heart skip a beat. Take me out tonight. The ship of fools I'm on will sink. I'm my own stone around my neck. Be my breath. There's nothing I wouldn't give. There's nothing he wouldn't give for what? To get his life back to the way it used to be maybe? This song tells a story. Jesse seems to not want to let go of the past. Perhaps in reference to Me Vs. Maradona Vs. Elvis, Lacey sings I used to know the name of every person I've kissed. Now I've made this bed and I can't fall asleep in it. Has Jesse Lacey become a manwhore? I can only hope not.
Cut to the ending. Just like the No Seatbelt Song, some more incoherent voices without complete sentences or thoughts. From what I can understand, I hear They never hit their brakes… There was no time to see… He just ran out in the street… Anybody know his name?... I think I recognize him… He'll sure as hell pay for my mistake. Correct me if I'm wrong, please. The whole Woah woahhh woahhh part is kind of intense. More so than the incoherent part, because it's difficult to understand. When I saw Brand New in concert for the second time, at the very end Jesse Lacey shouted his woahs and then grabbed a huge mallet of some sort and started pounding on the drums along with Brian Lane. DUMDUM DUM DUM! You know how it goes. It was the coolest thing I've ever seen. This goes with the whole spiel about how endings of songs are so important.
Best quote(s): I used to pray a God was listening. I used to make my parents proud. I was the glue that kept my friends together. Now they don't talk and we don't go out. This, again, shows Lacey's struggle with faith. This also explains how his parents perhaps got divorced or separated and aren't speaking and how he grew apart from his friends since high school. Jesse isn't there to keep the glue with his friends sticky. It has worn off and now with his absence, they're gone.
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