The group toured with Automatic Loveletter in July 2008,in the fall they toured with Family Force Five and The Maine, then embarked on their first headlining tour (entitled "There Came a Tour") with There For Tomorrow, In:Aviate, and The Lives of Famous Men. The band is currently a four-piece and working on new material.
In February of 2009, they premiered their music video for "Days End" on AbsolutePunk.net -- the video, filmed in mid-2008, includes their former guitarist and then was featured on the Summer Bailout tour with Emery, Maylene and the sons of disaster, Closure in Moscow and Secret & Whisper then finished out the year on the Vans Warped Tour.
During July & August of this year they toured alongside Dance Gavin Dance, Silverstein, and Emery on the Scream it Like You Mean It Tour. Ivoryline is currently on Creation Fest the Tour 2010 with Thousand Foot Krutch and Disciple.
The newest album is entitled "Vessels" and was released July 27th.
Passion and intensity have become the buzzwords of an industry in which myopic self pity has become its own brand of conformity. Enter Ivoryline, a band’s whose spiritual integrity bypasses musical wallowing and goes straight for the mainline of your emotional jugular with intensely personal lyrics and dense blasts of guitars. There is no “wink” from Ivoryline informing the listener they are steeped in the apathetic irony governing the charts; at long last a band has arrived that has the guts and the talent to enter a brave new world of sincerity. Ivoryline just gives you life, yours and theirs as a package. Singing their songs feels less like a drug and more like a journey into your own heart of darkness where you may ride their lyrical insights to new levels of self actualization.
How is it that these five boys from Tyler are able to bring the sophistication without being weighed down by the trappings of pseudo-intellectualism into a pompous self congratulatory excess? The answer is lucid and elegant, like the rock they make. They did it the old fashioned way, making music for the sake of music....not to get girls, not to be stars, but for a love of music. The Ivoryline Highway was constructed from an authentic love of music and listening to their songs makes you wonder where the notes begin and the cells of their bodies end.
The band members’ shared tastes brought them together to explore new territory while their roots remained firmly planted in the roots of rock-n-roll. The music they made stuck to them like an electrical shock and soon what started out as a few shows and penning some songs turned into a full time gig. They knew they were onto something when they were hand selected for the Vans Warped Tour in 2006. The storm grew stronger when the boys caught the ear of executives at mini-major Tooth and Nail Records, who had the foresight or the luck to be the company who can say they discovered Ivoryline. Crowds grew from a few dozen to a few hundred and sometimes into the thousands and a legend was born. As the crowds grew so did the feverish fervency of the fans. The fact that Ivoryline composes songs as a unit is somehow transferred to their audience, and when they perform live one is struck by the intense duality of the many becoming one voice, an audience so bound to the music it is as if they are its author. Make no mistake, it is the Ivoryline fans that own these songs. With hands raised and eyes closed the crowd becomes charged with electricity, light traveling in particles and waves through the room and materializing through the vocal chords of hundreds of fans. This is the foundation of Ivoryline’s allure. You, the fans, are their song.
Broken Bodies
Ivoryline Lyrics
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They're crawling out, the later it gets
It's so hard, so hard to believe
In the good unfolding, we lack the patience
Come back down, we're all ready now
We're all drowning in our follies
Broken hearts and broken bodies
Come back down, we're all ready now
We're all drowning in our follies
Broken hearts and broken bodies
A line, a sight is hid behind
Behind your eyes, no greater vision
The life I lead has become
Increasingly the life you lead in me
Come back down, we're all ready now
We're all drowning in our follies
Broken hearts and broken bodies
Come back down, we're all ready now
We're all drowning in our follies
Broken hearts and broken bodies
We can force our own mind
It helps to pass the time
Or you're faced on what could have been
There's a fine line
Between memory and loneliness
Come back down, we're all ready now
We're all drowning in our follies
Broken hearts and broken bodies
Come back down, we're all ready now
Though our hearts all scream inside us
We don't dream we keep them quiet
Come back down, we're all ready now
We're all drowning in our follies
Broken hearts and broken bodies
The lyrics of Ivoryline's "Broken Bodies" depict a sense of hopelessness and despair. The words that crawl out of the singer describe a lack of patience in believing in a good future, juxtaposing against the backdrop of broken hearts and bodies. The line, "The life I lead has become increasingly the life you lead in me" emphasizes a sense of identity loss and perhaps codependence that contributes to the subject matter's inability to move forward. The singer acknowledges that they can force their own mind to pass the time, but it's not enough to ignore what could have been. The line, "There's a fine line between memory and loneliness" encapsulates the heart of the despair portrayed in the song.
Overall, the song seems to be about the struggle of trying to move forward from painful experiences, but being unable to do so due to the weight of past trauma. It speaks to the difficulty of letting go and the desperation of wanting to believe in a better future despite feeling stuck in the present.
Line by Line Meaning
These words are crawling out of me
I have a lot of emotions that I need to express
They're crawling out, the later it gets
The more time passes, the more urgent it feels to express these emotions
It's so hard, so hard to believe
It's difficult to have hope for the future
In the good unfolding, we lack the patience
We struggle to wait for positive outcomes
Come back down, we're all ready now
We're waiting for someone to return or for a situation to change
We're all drowning in our follies
We're all struggling with our mistakes and weaknesses
Broken hearts and broken bodies
We're hurting emotionally and physically
A line, a sight is hid behind
There's a hidden meaning or motive behind someone's words or actions
Behind your eyes, no greater vision
Someone may appear empty or lacking direction
The life I lead has become
My life is increasingly influenced by someone else
Increasingly the life you lead in me
I'm becoming more like someone else
We can force our own mind
We can distract ourselves from our problems
It helps to pass the time
This distraction can temporarily alleviate our pain
Or you're faced on what could have been
Otherwise, we might face the regrets of missed opportunities
There's a fine line
It's difficult to balance memories and loneliness
Between memory and loneliness
We may hold on to memories, but they can also make us feel isolated
Though our hearts all scream inside us
We feel intense emotions that we're struggling to deal with
We don't dream we keep them quiet
We're afraid to hope or express our emotions because we're scared of getting hurt or disappointed
Contributed by Parker B. Suggest a correction in the comments below.