Telegraph Avenue Kiss
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| "Telegraph Avenue Kiss" | ||
|---|---|---|
| Song by Thursday | ||
| from the album A City By The Light Divided | ||
| Released | May 2, 2006 | |
| Genre | Post-Hardcore/Emocore | |
| Label | Island Records | |
| A City By The Light Divided track listing | ||
| "Running From The Rain" (7) |
"Telegraph Avenue Kiss" (8) |
"The Lovesong Writer" (9) |
Telegraph Avenue Kiss is the eighth track on A City By The Light Divided; it is believed to be performed only once live: September 2005 at Webster Hall, New York City during a promotional Coheed and Cambria show. It was leaked around that time as part of five demos stolen from My American Heart's tour manager, who had the demos on his iPod. (Thursday singer Geoff Rickly worked with My American Heart on the song We Are The Fabrication, from The Meaning In Makeup.
According to Rickly in an interview:
"Telegraph Avenue is a place in San Francisco. My wife was living [there] for a while. It's about a few things. It's a song about how difficult love can seem even when it's really good. And it's also about how difficult it is to write about love without making it into like a music box. So the first verse is sort of the image of a music box because once you write about a woman, then suddenly you tend to make her into a dancing ballerina in the middle of the music box and you force them into the song. It's like a form of entrapment. The second verse is about by singing about your own love, you become like a caged bird because in a way, the singing of the song itself lets everyone know what's going on in your life so it's like your trapping someone else and you're trapping yourself. In the end, I wanted to repeat images of spinning because I feel like there's so much that keeps changing when you're in a relationship so I really liked the idea of a merry-go-round that you can't get off. You know you should let go, but you're afraid of what would happen if you did."
| Thursday |
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| Geoff Rickly | Tom Keeley | Steve Pedulla | Tim Payne | Tucker Rule | Andrew Everding |
| Bill Henderson |
| Albums |
| Waiting (1999) | Full Collapse (2001) | War All The Time (2003) | A City By The Light Divided (2006) |
| EPs |
| 1999 Tour EP (1999) | Five Stories Falling EP (2002) | Live From The SoHo & Santa Monica Stores Split EP (2003) | Live In Detroit EP (2003) |
