Play Crack the Sky

Song infobox
Name = Play Crack the Sky


Artist = Brand New
Album = Deja Entendu
Released = June 17 2003
track_no = 11
Genre = Alternative rock
Label = Triple Crown
Producer = Steven Haigler
Tracks =1. Tautou
2. Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades
3. I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light
4. Okay I Believe You, but My Tommy Gun Don't
5. The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows
6. The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot
7. Jaws Theme Swimming
8. Me Vs. Maradona Vs. Elvis
9. Guernica
10. Good to Know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have to Do Is Die
11. Play Crack the Sky

"Play Crack the Sky" is the 11th and final track on Brand New's second album "Deja Entendu". The title refers to a Mylon LeFevre song titled "Crack The Sky". As a teen, singer Jesse Lacey and his friend John Nolan saw an older Mylon LeFevre playing to an empty parking lot. Nolan shouted "Play Crack the Sky!", and LeFevre put his head down in shame. The song itself relates the story of a ship that comes under a fierce storm and is destroyed near or around the area of Montauk Point to a relationship that is past the point of no return.

The closing words, "Never to see any other way", appear to be in reference to the final words of A Day in the Life from The Beatles' eighth studio album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.