With Schwarzenbach on guitar and vocals, Bauermeister on bass, and Pfahler on drums, the band gained recognition in the late eighties and early nineties for their melodic yet driven sound built on the foundation for Schwarzenbach's poignant, bleeding-heart lyrics and signature rasp.
The band's first full-length release Unfun was put out by Shredder in 1990. On this, the band stuck close to the sound coming out of their contemporaries in the nascent pop punk scene in their sound, with the exception of Bauermeister's prominent bass lines and Schwarzenbach's lyrics, at times walking the line of the melodramatic.
Unfun was followed by Bivouac on Tupelo/Communion in 1992. Bivouac proved thicker and darker - both thematically and melodically - yet served to elevate the band above a crowd of previously similar acts. This more ambitious release also artfully used pieces of found-audio, in what was becoming one of the band's signatures, weaving it in and out of the ten minute title track, "Bivouac."
Their third release, 24 Hour Revenge Therapy, produced by the ubiquitous Steve Albini, unveiled a sparse pop-punk with more carefully crafted lyrics. This album also holds what has become arguably their best known song, "Boxcar."
Jawbreaker had seemed poised for critical and commercial success by the time of their fourth, and last album, Dear You. Despite a vigorous marketing push, Jawbreaker's album sales were anemic in the wake of a post-Green Day market, and was one of the causes leading to the end of the band's career in 1996.
The group recently reacquired the rights to Dear You and have successfully put the long out-of-print album back into circulation on Pfahler's label, Blackball Records.
The band's cult status as the definitive nineties proto-pop-punk band has grown since its breakup, and songs like "Kiss the Bottle" and "Jet Black" are referenced as influences by bands such as Sparta, Lucero, and Rocky Votolato. In 2003, a Jawbreaker tribute album, Bad Scene, Everyone's Fault was released on Dying Wish Records, and featured covers by 18 bands including Fall Out Boy, Nerf Herder, Sparta, and Face To Face.
Singer Blake Schwarzenbach went on to form the New York City-based band Jets to Brazil, who have also since broken up, and is now an adjunct English professor at Hunter College (CUNY). In the fall of 2008, he debuted his new band, Thorns of Life, formed with Aaron Cometbus of Crimpshrine and Pinhead Gunpowder on drums and ex-Gr'ups bassist Daniela Sea.
Drummer Adam Pfahler is currently drumming in San Francisco-based Whysall Lane, whose LP was released in 2006 on his own Blackball Records.
Bassist Chris Bauermeister has been playing in post-hardcore band Horace Pinker and pop-punk band Shorebirds, which was formed with Matt Canino, formerly of Latterman; Shorebirds split in the summer of 2008.
In 2021, Blake Schwarzenbach teamed up with Joyce Manor on a release.
In spite of the similar name, the band Jawbreaker Reunion is unrelated.
Into You Like a Train
Jawbreaker Lyrics
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No kind of love
I don't wanna make no scene
Lovers come and go
Or make you mrs. anyone
Or make you mr. me
Into you like a train
Into you like a train
Yeah fall in love
Yeah fall in love
I don't wanna tape you down
Or shack you up with me
Or put you where the flowers go
Or get into your mind
I'm into you like a train
Into you like a train
Into you like a train
Now fall in love
Yeah fall in love
If you believe that anyone
Like me within a song
Is outside it all
Then you are all so wrong
If you believe that anyone
Like me within a song
Would try and change it all
Then you have been put on
I'm into you like a train
Into you like a train
Into you like a train
Yeah fall in love
Yeah fall in love
No kind of love
No kind of love
I don't wanna wear no side
Or complicate it all
Or celebrate your prettiness
And kick you in it all
I'm into you like a train
Into you like a train
Into you like a train
Yeah fall in love
Yeah fall in love
If you believe that anyone
Like me within a song
Would try and change it all
Then you have been put on
So wrong
Into you like a train
The song "Into You Like a Train" by Jawbreaker is a love song that expresses the singer's desire to be with someone without any strings attached. The lyrics reveal that the singer doesn't want to make the person they love their partner or pressure them into a commitment. They express their pure love for the person without any conditions. They assert that their love is like a train, powerful, unstoppable and inevitable.
The use of repetition in the lyrics of the song emphasizes the nature of the love between the singer and the person they love. The singer repeats the phrase "into you like a train" several times throughout the song, emphasizing how strong their feelings are. The song emphasizes that the singer does not want to change the person they love in any way, nor do they want to possess them or control their lives. They simply want to love them unfettered, just like a train that moves on its track.
Line by Line Meaning
No kind of love
There's no specific type of love being referred to in this song
I don't wanna make no scene
I don't want to cause any drama or fuss
Lovers come and go
Relationships don't always last forever
Or make you mrs. anyone
I don't want to marry you off to someone else
Or make you mr. me
I don't want to be in control of you
I'm into you like a train
I'm very much in love with you and it's intense
Yeah fall in love
Let's fall in love together
I don't wanna tape you down
I don't want to hold you back or restrain you
Or shack you up with me
I don't want to force you to live with me
Or put you where the flowers go
I don't want to control where you go or what you do
Or get into your mind
I don't want to invade your privacy or manipulate you mentally
If you believe that anyone
If you believe that someone
Like me within a song
Like me in this song
Is outside it all
Is not part of it all
Then you are all so wrong
You're completely mistaken
Would try and change it all
Would attempt to alter everything
Then you have been put on
You've been tricked or deceived
I don't wanna wear no side
I don't want to take a stance or pick a side
Or complicate it all
I don't want to make things more complicated
Or celebrate your prettiness
I don't want to just admire your physical appearance
And kick you in it all
And tear you down or hurt you in some way
I'm into you like a train
I'm still deeply in love with you
So wrong
Incorrect
No kind of love
Still no specific type of love mentioned
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: DUNCAN KILBURN, JOHN ASHTON, RICHARD BUTLER, ROGER NICHOLAS MORRIS, TIMOTHY BUTLER, VINCENT DAVEY
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
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This is certainly a contender for best cover ever.
Paddy Campbell
Excellent cover of one of my favourite songs EVER
Dan Eisert
This is so cool, My Family's Race Car On The Cover!!! How cool is that!
Todd Michael Johnson
What’s the story!?
Dag Nasty Odi
dope. you guys still have it?
Doug Smith
A killer cover of am incredible song that could have easily been a complete disaster.
One of my absolute favourite covers...
Red Zen
Excellent cover version of The Psychedelic Furs' "Into You Like A Train": This cover version by Jawbreaker was released in 2002, I believe. I shall have to listen to more of Jawbreaker. They did a bang-up job on this song.
Stephan St. Claire-Méfret
rocking. great show in Humboldt you guys.
LaShane Arnett
<3 Nice!
4ur3liu5
this is my theme song