Love You" (which is also awesome! They have a really funny and creative edge to their music). Anyway, after ordering it I was listening to some of their other tracks from other albums, and saw that Broken Bride album. It was cheaper than the others and only had 5 songs on it, so thought it was worth reading the reviews. The reviews were all great, saying that this was more of musical theater than anything else, and how it was a beautiful love story. I decided to give it a shot and bought it. The first few times I listened to it - even though I listened to it all the way through - I didn't really get the storyline, I just heard the music. The music itself is great! It has a lot of different styles and varieties in it so it can pertain to a lot of different tastes, in my opinion. Over the last few weeks, however, I've really started listening to the lyrics and now I can't listen to the all of the songs without crying! The first song, Broken Bride Part I, starts with the main character, if you will, saying how his bride died in May of 1989, and how he's been working for 15 years to create a time machine to stop her from dying. (All of you Sci-Fi haters, I know it sounds weird but just trust me, it's amazing). Anyway, he has his machine built and tries to go back in time but something goes wrong and he ends up in pre-historic times, hiding in a cave so he doesn't get eaten, basically. So, thinking that he's failed and he will die in vain, he tries to write his story on the cave walls, but the glaciers wash his words away.
The next song - Save Our City - I'm not sure how but he goes forward into the future again into a war torn city. Gets kind of weird in that they are fighting against Zombies. Anyway, doesn't really have the main guy in it, it's just talking about this place and their King.
The next song, "Part II: Tonight's The Night" is the main guy again, and he's really hopeful and he's fixed (or is fixing) the time machine so he can try to go to the right time again to save his love.
"Part III: The Lamb And The Dragon" is where it really explains how the main guy went forward in time, and it's at the "end of days". So maybe Save Our City should be after this song, but whatever. Anyway, so in the first part you can't really tell what he's saying, but basically it says that he barely escaped the dinosaurs (he mentions raptors specifically) and his machine threw him to the end of days. It talks about the war that's going on, there's a distinction between the religious side calling for "The wrath of the Lamb!" to aid them while the other side is calling for "the Dragon" to rise. A few of the lyrics actually pull ideas from the bible (revelations). It turns to the view of the main character again getting ready to use his machine again, but something happens and his machine is destroyed and it somehow saves the "souls" of the people fighting from "the Destroyer of Worlds", so maybe it killed the dragon? Anyway, I think this blast killed him, and he sort of recounts what he's done to try and save her and how he wishes he could have one last chance to see her to say goodbye on the morning that she died, and it transitions to him in their old apartment seeing her sleeping. (That's the part that makes me cry)
Then the last song, combined with the previous is probably my favorite, "Part IV: Morning In May", he's with his love again and he talks about how happy and terrified he is at seeing her again and how he's sort of taking in everything about that moment as well as remembering the time after she died and how hard it was to deal with losing her, then when she wakes up and has to leave, he's torn because he knows what's going to happen and that he can't stop it, (by the way, she was killed in a car crash), and at the last minute he stops her from driving away and gets in the car to go with her. So basically, he's with her during the car crash and they die together. This song also makes me cry like a baby.
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