Vasoli has lately been focusing on his side project, known as Person L. Tom has been recording with his new band, Cheap Seats, with Matt as their manager. Mike also has a side project, called The Traded Series. The origins of the group that would become The Starting Line go back to 1999, via an AOL instant message from Churchville, Pennsylvania guitarist Matt Watts to vocalist/bassist Kenny Vasoli. It asked if the then fourteen-year-old Vasoli, who was at that time in a band called Smash Adams, was interested in "Jamming and shit", as the message title read.
Only a few weeks later, Vasoli found himself rehearsing with his future bandmates Watts, guitarist Mike Golla and drummer Tom Gryskewicz. Soon, the band started touring under the name Sunday Drive, selling out home-made merchandise and a self-recorded demo cassette that the guys titled 'Four Songs'. Their first official release was a three-way split with The Jimmy Tuesday Band and The Commercials contributing three songs each, the work released on KickStart Audio in 2000.
Sunday Drive was soon approached by We the People Records and asked to produce a recording session (the infamous We the People Records Sessions). Set for a release in December 2000, the twelve songs were initially planned to become the band's debut full-length With Hopes of Starting Over on We the People Records, but they ended up serving only as demos for tracks on future releases, as the band signed with Drive-Thru Records in April 2001. On Drive-Thru, they soon released their debut EP With Hopes of Starting Over. Yet, as the name Sunday Drive was already taken by a Christian rock band, they went on as The Starting Line.
On July 16, 2002, almost exactly one year after the release of their EP, the full-length Say It Like You Mean It followed. The songs ranged from energetic and fast-paced to melancholy and calm, dealing with performing on stage ("Given the Chance"), feeling homesick ("Left Coast Envy") and getting even with Vasoli's ex-girlfriend Karina ("Up & Go", "Hello Houston", among others). The hit single "The Best of Me" and its two music videos, as well as the second single "Leaving", received heavy radio and TV airplay, securing The Starting Line a spot on the Warped Tour.
Due to their desire to put out new material, the band decided to release an all-unplugged EP, recorded in three sessions over the following year. The first three songs (recorded in The Prize Fight's Bob Jones' bedroom in August 2002), the second session (recorded in Vasoli's basement in March 2003) and the last track (recorded on the band's touring bus in April 2003) became The Make Yourself at Home EP, released on November 25, 2003. The CD and the DVD version issued simultaneously, featuring an acoustic set performed live at Skate & Surf 2003 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, would be their last releases put out solely on Drive-Thru Records, as The Starting Line was signed by Geffen Records soon afterwards.
Their major label debut, Based on a True Story, came out in May 2005. Lyrically, the band dissociated themselves from the post-relationship formula that was predominant on their previous records. On this album, a lot of the songs (e.g. "Inspired By the $", "Autography" and "The B-List") were explicitly inspired by the band's disdain for their record label Geffen and its executives. The album was far more successful than the band's 2002 effort and sold 42,000 copies within its first week, as opposed to its predecessor's 11,000. The release was followed by the semi-headlining Nintendo Fusion Tour with Fall Out Boy, kicking off in September 2005. A few dates into the tour, The Starting Line were — at their request — released from their record deal with Geffen, and became free agents. In early January 2006, their signing with Virgin Records was announced.
On March 5, 2008 the band announced in an e-mail and on Absolutepunk.net they would be going on a break in order for Ken and Brian to explore Person L, Matt and Tom to explore The Seventy Six, and Mike to spend time with his two daughters and explore The Traded Series. The band had been playing with the idea of coming back in 2011, but in a chat with absolutepunk.net, Kenny Vasoli said, ""it's looking good, may even be earlier. I hung with Matt and Tom the other day, we all are still in love with one another.
On November 10, 2009, The Starting Line released their first-ever live concert CD, film and documentary DVD titled "Somebody's Gonna Miss Us" via Image Entertainment on a 2-disc set. Through intimate and honest interviews with the band, friends and family fans will get a glimpse into the inner workings of the group and a career that spanned nearly a decade, five releases, and thousands of shows.
On December 29, 2009, The Starting Line had a reunion concert at the Theater of Living Arts. Starting Line guitarist Matt Watts stated on the website AbsolutePunk that "this doesn't mean that TSL are back together....It simply means that we're taking a break from our break, and wanted to play a fun show in Philadelphia and continue to focus on our lives outside of TSL"
The Starting Line added a second holiday show on December 30, 2009 in Philadelphia at the Trocadero Theater. This was added due to the fact that the first holiday show scheduled for December 29, 2009 sold out in a little over an hour and the band would like to give their local fans a better chance to see them. Towards the end of their set, Kenny Vasoli announced the band's reunion. However, the group has only toured intermittently since then.
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A Goodnight's Sleep
The Starting Line Lyrics
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Was in your arms
Spent tangled up in you
A sudden morning
Crashed in the room
With an uninvited sudden change in you
What can I say
Who's stuck outside
And looks just like you too
You can sleep in your own bed tonight
Sleep away as summer came screaming out my name
You can sleep in your own bed tonight
I hope for your sake that you don't wake up as broken as I am
For the lack of better
Words to say
All I said was goodnight
Once again
In self defense I won't sleep a wink
To prevent dreaming of you
You can sleep in your own bed tonight
Sleep away as summer came screaming out my name
You can sleep in your own bed tonight
I hope for your sake that you don't wake up as broken as I am
Sleep in your own bed
Tonight
I that some day you will wake up as lonely as I am
You can sleep in your own bed tonight
Sleep away as summer came screaming out my name
You can sleep in your own bed tonight
I hope for your sake that you don't wake up as broken as I am
Sleep in your own bed tonight
I that some day you will wake up as lonely as I am
Cause it works both ways
Cause it works both ways
Cause it works both ways
Sleep in your own bed
The Starting Line's song A Goodnight's Sleep is a heart-wrenching ballad about a failed relationship. The opening lines "A better slumber was in your arms, spent tangled up in you" gives the impression of a couple who used to be in love and would spend nights in each other's company, but that is all over now. A "sudden morning crashed in the room with an uninvited sudden change in you" implies that something happened that changed the relationship dynamic, and the singer isn't sure what went wrong.
The chorus "You can sleep in your own bed tonight, sleep away as summer came screaming out my name" suggests a sense of longing and regret as the singer wishes that they could have been together longer. They hope that their previous partner doesn't wake up as broken as they are. The last verse "For lack of better words to say, all I said was goodnight, once again in self-defense I won't sleep a wink, to prevent dreaming of you" implies that they have ended things but can't seem to break the emotional tie with their previous partner.
Overall, this song is a poignant tale about regret, heartbreak, and the desire for closure.
Line by Line Meaning
A better slumber
I slept better when I was with you
Was in your arms
I slept soundly when I was holding onto you
Spent tangled up in you
We were wrapped together in love, limbs intertwined
A sudden morning
The abrupt arrival of daylight
Crashed in the room
Was overwhelming and unpleasant in its arrival
With an uninvited sudden change in you
You became different in the light, unrecognizable from the person I knew the night before
What can I say
I don't have the words to express my disappointment or confusion
Where's that girl from last night
Who was full of life and love, and seemed like a different person than the one I see now
Who's stuck outside
And can't seem to find her way back to the person I connected with
And looks just like you too
But physically, you're still the same person
You can sleep in your own bed tonight
You don't need me to comfort you, you can rest alone
Sleep away as summer came screaming out my name
As the summer night calls out to you, inviting you to sleep deeply
I hope for your sake that you don't wake up as broken as I am
I don't want you to experience the pain and loneliness I'm feeling now
For the lack of better
I don't have better words or actions to express myself
Words to say
My vocabulary is insufficient to convey my emotions
All I said was goodnight
I couldn't find the right words to say more than a simple farewell
Once again
This has happened before, I'm experiencing this pain again
In self defense I won't sleep a wink
To protect myself from dreaming about you and the pain it brings, I'll stay awake
To prevent dreaming of you
I don't want to relive the happiness I felt with you in my dreams and then wake up to the harsh reality
I hope for your sake that you don't wake up as broken as I am
I don't want you to feel the same pain and despair that I'm experiencing now
Sleep in your own bed tonight
You don't need me to feel secure and comfortable while sleeping
I that some day you will wake up as lonely as I am
I hope that someday you'll understand the pain of losing someone you love and will sympathize with my pain
Cause it works both ways
The pain of heartbreak is universal, it affects both parties involved
Sleep in your own bed
You don't need me to make you feel safe or loved while sleeping
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: GOLLA, GRYSKIEWICZ, VASOLI, WATTS
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