History Music / TheFray

* InTheBlood: "Turn Me On".

* DownerEnding: "Happiness" (see below.)

* GriefSong: "How to Save a Life" is about being unable to save someone from themselves, though it's officially open to interpretation.

she's on your mind she's on your mind.''

The Fray is a Denver-based rock group best known for their singles "Over My Head (Cable Car)", "How to Save a Life", and their piano-rock style of music.

--> Yet man was born to trouble, like sparks fly upward... [[note]]Job 5:7[[/note]]

* CrowdSong: "All At Once" references a crowd bursting into song.

** A number of songs seem to be written from the wrong side. Examples include "Trust Me," "Over My Head (Cable Car)" and "You Found Me."

* DrivenToSuicide: It appears that "How to Save a Life" is a song about someone who was driven to killing themselves.

* NeverTrustATitle: "Happiness" is nothing like it sounds. It's an extremely sad song that puts some of Music/{{U2}}'s [[DownerEnding album closers]] to shame.

* RageAgainstTheHeavens: "You Found Me" is addressed to God with the question "Where were you?" Also a bit of SmiteMeOMightySmiter involved. Fairly mild, though, given that Isaac Slade is a Christian. Note that, even if He was "just a little late," God showed up anyway, and although the song is very emotional, [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation it does have a slight air of gratefulness]].

* StarCrossedLovers: According to Slade, "Turn Me On" is about a ''RomeoAndJuliet'' style love affair.

The Fray is a Denver-based rock group best known for their singles "Over My Head (Cable Car)", "How To Save A Life", and their piano-rock style of music.

* AngstySurvivingTwin: The main character of "Run For Your Life" is one.

** "How To Save A Life" has someone else going over this.
** "Run For Your Life" is about a girl with a dead twin sister and trying to keep her from crossing it.

* DrivenToSuicide: It appears that "How To Save a Life" is a song about someone who was driven to killing themselves.
* GriefSong: "How To Save A Life" is about being unable to save someone from themselves, though it's officially open to interpretation.

** Perhaps to clearly demonstrate the trope, the word "shit" appears in the opening track "Hold My Hand," just within three minutes to begin their "Helios" album.

* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: "Trust Me" plays around with this; the speaker seems sad that the addressee will understand "when you're older," but equally despairing at the idea that they never might.

* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: "How to Save a Life" is about attempting and failing to do this.

* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: "Enough For Now" is about a man who wanted a son to inherit his name, [[InadequateInheritor but had a daughter instead]]. The lyrics suggest that it's about the grandfather of a band member.

** Perhaps to clearly demonstrate the trope, the word "shit" appears in the opening track "Hold My Hand," just within three minutes of their "Helios" album.

* DisappearedDad: The father in "Enough for now", who "left my mother's mother without so much as a kiss", and while it's unclear exactly what happened the first verse says he's "no longer with us" and later lyrics suggest he's dead.

* BerlinWall:
** Referenced in "Hundred"
** More obvious in "1961", where it's used as a metaphor for walls we build up to not let people in.

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* NeverTrustATitle: "Happiness" is nothing like it sounds. It's an extremely sad song that puts some of {{U2}}'s [[DownerEnding album closers]] to shame.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Isaac. Naturally leading to the occasional:
** {{Mondegreen}}

The Fray is a Denver-based rock group best known for their singles "Over My Head (Cable Car)" "How To Save A Life" and their piano-rock style of music.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Isaac's accent.

** More obvious in "1961", where it's used as a metaphor for walls we build up to not let people in.

* StarCrossedLovers: According to Slade, "Turn Me On" is about a ''RomeoAndJuliet'' style love affair between a BlitheSpirit and [[InTheBlood a man with a family curse]].

* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: "Enough For Now" is about a man who wanted a son to inherit his name, [[InadequateInheritor but had a daughter instead]]. The lyrics suggest that it's about the grandfather of of the band members.

* BerlinWall: Referenced in "Hundred"
** More obvious in "1961", where it's used as a metaphor for walls we build up to not let people in
* DespairEventHorizon: A number of songs seem to be written from the wrong side, especially "Trust Me."

* CrowdSong: "All At Once" references a crowd bursting into song

* RageAgainstTheHeavens: "You Found Me" is addressed to God with the question "Where were you?" Also a bit of SmiteMeOMightySmiter involved.
** Fairly mild, though, given that Isaac Slade is a Christian. Note that, even if He was "just a little late," God showed up anyway, and although the song is very emotional, [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation it does have a slight air of gratefulness]]...