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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Saddest Girl Song
The Starting Line Lyrics
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Heart torn out, down for the count and still come back for more.
This lesson is learned too well.
Though, only unlearned by the time your wounds have healed.
Have you had enough?
I guess not because your lips are stuck to his.
It's Time to say enough is enough, you would be so better off.
You can't win.
Stop expecting change, he's just a lost cause that you're waiting on.
Take a look around, you could have anyone.
So leave undeserving him.
It only hurts at first.
But then you will find someone to give you everything you want.
Try not to go running back to him.
So it goes unsaid that we've been here before.
Lonely nights and endless fights and sleeping on the floor.
And he's sorry, so the story goes.
It's read and replayed and ends the same way
Stop expecting change, he's just a lost cause that you're waiting on.
Take a look around, you could have anyone.
So leave undeserving him.
Stop expecting change, he's just a lost cause that you're waiting on.
Take a look around, you could have anyone.
The Starting Line's "Saddest Girl Song" is a song that deals with the difficulty of leaving a toxic relationship. The lyrics describe a pattern of heartbreak and reconciliation, with the singer unable to break away from a relationship despite knowing how bad it is for her. The song's opening lines, "So it's safe to say that we've been here before; Heart torn out, down for the count and still come back for more," suggest that the singer has been through a similar situation before, perhaps with the same person.
As the lyrics unfold, it becomes clear that the singer is stuck in a cycle of hoping for change from her partner, only to be disappointed again and again. The chorus drives this point home with the lines, "Stop expecting change, he's just a lost cause that you're waiting on / Take a look around, you could have anyone / So leave undeserving him." Despite knowing that she could have someone better, the singer still can't bring herself to leave the relationship, and the song ends on a note of resignation: "So it goes unsaid that we've been here before / Lonely nights and endless fights and sleeping on the floor."
Overall, "Saddest Girl Song" is a powerful depiction of the struggle to break free from toxic relationships. The singer's reluctance to leave her partner despite knowing that she deserves better is a relatable experience that many listeners will be able to identify with.
Line by Line Meaning
So it's safe to say that we've been here before;
We've experienced heartbreak in the past and unfortunately, it's happening again.
Heart torn out, down for the count and still come back for more.
Despite feeling hurt and defeated, we still continue to pursue love.
This lesson is learned too well.
We've learned the painful lesson of loving someone who doesn't love us back.
Though, only unlearned by the time your wounds have healed.
We only realize the mistake of our actions when the pain has subsided and the wounds have healed.
Have you had enough?
Have you reached your breaking point?
I guess not because your lips are stuck to his.
You continue to stay with someone who doesn't treat you right and return to him time and time again.
It's Time to say enough is enough, you would be so better off.
It's time to put an end to this toxic relationship and move on to someone who treats you better.
You love him but tough because it's not coming back from him.
You may love him but you need to accept that he doesn't reciprocate those feelings and move on for your own sake.
You can't win.
Continuing to fight for someone who doesn't love you back is a losing battle.
Stop expecting change, he's just a lost cause that you're waiting on.
It's time to stop hoping for a miracle and accept that he will never change.
Take a look around, you could have anyone.
There are plenty of people out there who would treat you better than he does.
So leave undeserving him.
It's time to leave him behind and find someone who deserves your love.
It only hurts at first.
The initial pain of letting him go will eventually subside.
But then you will find someone to give you everything you want.
You will find someone who will love you and give you everything you are looking for in a partner.
Try not to go running back to him.
As tempting as it may be to go back to him, it's important to resist that urge and move forward.
So it goes unsaid that we've been here before.
The fact that we've experienced this pain before is left unspoken.
Lonely nights and endless fights and sleeping on the floor.
The relationship has brought about feelings of loneliness, arguments, and sleeping on the floor.
And he's sorry, so the story goes.
He apologizes for his behavior but the cycle continues and nothing changes.
It's read and replayed and ends the same way.
The story of this relationship is a never-ending cycle of heartbreak that always ends the same way.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: GOLLA, GRYSKIEWICZ, VASOLI, WATTS
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