Since making their debut with 2007’s A Lesson in Romantics, the band has sold over 1.1 million albums, steadily amassing a worldwide following. “But even though there’s a lot of negativity on the song, there’s still a hopeful chorus because I think we need to try to stay hopeful.” And to close out Sunnyland, Mayday Parade deliver the album’s stripped-back title track, a melancholy mid-tempo number that unfolds with graceful acoustic guitar work, delicate harmonies and subtly detailed storytelling. “That song was written within months of Donald Trump being elected and came from feeling upset that something as horrible as that could happen,” says Sanders. While much of the album explores personal matters like loss and love (as on the stirringly romantic, piano-laced “Piece Of Your Heart”), songs such as “It's Hard to Be Religious When Certain People Are Never Incinerated By Bolts Of Lightning” emerge as an outward-looking burst of anger. Whether they’re taking on a folk-infused ballad like “Always Leaving” or channeling brutal punk fury into tracks like “If I Were You,” the band sustains an undeniable intensity. The result is an album built on impassioned vocals, sing-along choruses and deeply heartfelt lyrics.įrom the album-opening “Never Sure” - a tortured love song driven by blistering riffs and pummeling drumbeats - Mayday Parade instill all of Sunnyland with unbridled energy. The band recorded the album with longtime producers Zack Odom and Kenneth Mount, and also teamed up with Grammy nominated producer John Feldmann (Blink-182, Panic! At the Disco) and Howard Benson (Of Mice & Men, My Chemical Romance) for the very first time. The follow-up to their acclaimed 2015 album Black Lines, Sunnyland finds Mayday Parade both reflecting on the past and pushing toward the future. “It was a super-creepy place - it was overgrown with vines, and still had some of the hospital beds and IV stands - but we have all these good memories of hanging out there when we were younger.” “The hospital shut down sometime in the mid-’80s but then it just stayed there for decades,” says lead vocalist Derek Sanders. The sixth studio album from Tallahassee-based rock band Mayday Parade Sunnyland gets its title from an abandoned hospital where the band members used to sneak in to explore as teenagers. She staying in Tallahassee for now and I think it's kind of cute cause it seems like she really wants to go home but she cares about him to much to go back. So MAYBE it was to try and get her to stay? I honestly don’t remember where she said she lived ( I think it might be down around G-vill but I’m not sure at all) but yeah that’s what I think the song was written for. This is a long shot but MAYBE!!!! (extreme maybe here people) I remember her saying that when she finished school (She goes the Aveda Cosmetology school here in Tallahassee) that she was going to back home. She’s going out with one of them I just can’t remember which one and I know she’s told me the name more then once so it’s driving me crazy right now lol (yeah I kinda zone out sometimes, The first time she told me about them I couldn’t remember there name, and this time she told me about a show there playing at the beta bar on the 24th) but yeah 3 weeks ago because of the girl that does me hair. Well to be honest I only started listening to them about. there all from Tallahassee except I think the drummer. General CommentFor the person who wanted to know where there from. So sing it over again, and over again, and over again Now sing it over again, and over again, and over again (x3)

Ill sing you every song I know if it will make you to stayĪnd I could call you baby doll all the timeĪnd you'd whisper in my ears, you'd say, 'I missed you boy' Stay and watch the stars come out and then the sun as they all fade away While the view from every rooftop says to stay I'll sing you every song I know if it will make you want to stayĮvery line that I've cried every note that was split with this penĪnd every line in every song, they all seemed to come out wrong,Īnd this Tallahassee skyline hasn't changed So stay and watch the stars come out and then the sun as they all fade away Well that sounds like a good excuse for coming homeĪnd this Tallahassee skyline that keeps singing out a songĪnd now it's your song they've been singing all night longĪnd this Tallahassee rooftop just keeps calling out your name

Mayday parade stay song