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Ranging from tender to anthemic, Jets Under Fire’s sensibility and melodic, piano-driven style will definitely garner them comparisons to brit sensations like Keane, Travis, and the Verve. However, the band’s music is also shaped by Smashing Pumpkins, The Beatles, and the Beach Boys.
That being said, just one listen to their third release, Kingdoms, makes it obvious the band is informed by their influences, not confined. Built around Jason Poe’s emotive vocals, Jets Under Fire’s songs are unflinchingly introspective and penetratingly beautiful. What’s more is that Poe has that rare ability to suck the audience into his world, making it all but impossible not to hang silently on every note at one of their dramatic live performances. Poe’s delivery of lyrics like “Baby, I feel just like a fool,” and “All I need is a piece of solid ground,” is so honest and devoid of posturing that before you know it you’ve dug up these feelings and you’re experiencing them as you listen. This phenomenon is obvious to anybody who has ever seen the band live. It’s not uncommon to hear total silence when the band drops away during a bridge leaving only Poe’s words sung in his unmistakable, heartbreaking way. And in a city where people see live music to catch up with wayward friends, make new ones, and generally socialize, that speaks volumes about the band’s connection with its fans. Great songwriting, showmanship, and good old-fashioned hard work have done much to create the loyal fan base they now boast, but it’s Jason Poe’s ability to really make you experience the world through him that makes Jets Under Fire so hard to dismiss as just another brit pop band.

Jets Under Fire began as the solo project of Jason Poe, front man for The Professional Americans. The project started as a fit of creative fury after a job loss in 2002 and progressed slowly over the next three years. First came the Dave Bazan-inspired Promises, which was written as a linear concept album in 2002 and recorded in a small storm shelter in Southwest Missouri two years later. Poe’s bitter sweet melodies and emotive lyrics exploring the ideas of self-righteousness and forgiveness helped create a small but loyal fan base after the record was released the same year.

Jets Under Fire’s second release, The Winter EP, came in December 2004 and showcased a much more complete adaptation of Poe’s vision. Unlike the quiet, acoustic reverie of Promises, the new work was piano-driven and included a full band. Though some of the songs still boasted the quiet side of Jets Under Fire fans had come to love, the more bombastic tunes like All the Sad Songs and the fact that Poe played all the instruments, produced, and recorded the EP himself, garnered him a new level respect from his peers. In July 2005, Jason's full-time band, The Professional Americans, relocated to Austin, TX to try their luck in the legendary music scene. Despite promising label interest, The Professional Americans began to suffer from a lack of solidarity and within a year the members had gone their separate ways. Poe no longer had any reason to ignore the momentum Jets Under Fire had gained over the last three years and he set out to put together a set of players that could bring his music to life. Featuring drummer Corbin Petersen (formally of The Professional Americans) and bass player Todd Meador (formally of Cord), Jets Under Fire is now a recognizable name in the Austin music scene and is poised to go much, much further.

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Band Members:
Jason Poe - Vocals/Guitar
Corbin Petersen - Drums/Vocals
Todd Meador- Bass/Vocals
Stu Smtih-Guitar

Broken Parts
Jets Under Fire Lyrics

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We've been looking around
For the answers but the answers can't be found
Inside of me Inside of you
Say that love is the one
In some ways you are right in some ways you're wrong
If love is the key tell me
Why don't we set the whole world free

We've been built with broken parts
You know and I know
That we've been broken from the start
You feel it in your heart

Girl I love you true
It's what we say and at least it's halfway true
I swear that I try
But girl you know our love is the broken kind

We've been built with broken parts
You know and I know
That we've been broken from the start
You feel it in your heart

The losers the winners
The profits the sinners
The poor and the privileged
We suffer the same
We try to deny it but we cannot change

It leaves us where?
All alone in the cold and sequestered air
To count the cost
Someone tell me everything's not lost

We've been built with broken parts
You know and I know
That we've been broken from the start

You know and I know
That we bear this weight here in our hearts

Overall Meaning

The above lyrics belong to the song 'Broken Parts' by Jets Under Fire. The song revolves around the idea of searching for answers in life, particularly in love, and the realization that we are all flawed and broken in our ways. The song starts with the singers acknowledging the quest for answers but being unable to find them despite searching inside themselves and each other. They question the notion that love is the key to everything, wondering if it could set the whole world free, calling attention to the stark present realities of societal divides.

The chorus of the song is particularly strong, acknowledging that human beings are all flawed and fractured in some way, and that this is particularly true when it comes to relationships. The lyrics convey the notion that they have both loved each other truly, but their love is not enough to overcome the brokenness of the situation. The song then takes a philosophical turn, talking about winners and losers, the rich and the poor, sinners and prophets, and how, despite these differences, we are all broken in some way. The song ends on a slightly hopeful note, with the singers wondering if everything is truly lost, asking if someone can tell them that things will get better.

Line by Line Meaning

We've been looking around
We've been searching for answers.

For the answers but the answers can't be found
But we can't seem to find them.

Inside of me Inside of you
The answers might be within ourselves.

Say that love is the one
People say that love is the answer.

In some ways you are right in some ways you're wrong
But love isn't always the solution.

If love is the key tell me
If love really is the answer,

Why don't we set the whole world free
Then why can't we make the world a better place?

We've been built with broken parts
We were born with flaws.

You know and I know
We both know it's true.

That we've been broken from the start
We've been flawed since birth.

You feel it in your heart
We can feel it deep down.