Yep, Jawbreaker wrote sad lyrics and that's what made them great. They were way in to domestic tradgedy and were plain speakers at that so I always thought of them as the Raymond Carver of rock. How often does someone set up a romantic moment in a song with "Hayes broke the scissors, apologized" or "I did the dishes while you read out loud"?

The best thing about their lyrics though was probably that it is so easy to live vicariously through them. After awhile, you feel like you were the one that wrote and lived that shit and Blake only wrote it all down for you and sang out loud.

What's really sad though is that there are only a handful of people who are still interested enough in Jawbreaker to join a Tribe about them.

I think I saw this band close to 100 times back in there day it seemed I could never get enough. They found their way on to every compilation I ever made and I was never so in to memorizing lyrics outside of Bad Religion.