Relient K: Five Score and Seven Years Ago

Relient K has been on the scene for seven years, and this is the fifth album release, hence the name.

Though they have had a loyal fan base, they have recently been recognized by the mainstream with their last release, MmmHmm. Relient K has catchy lyrics as well as great musicality.

Five Score and Seven Years Ago, proves to be a mature progression of their music. It still has Relient K's style and quirky lyrics but they are more grounded and musically challenging.

The song, "The Best Thing," I think could be described as a catchy love song. Its a song about someone knowing they love someone but somehow feel inadequate, but the person they love, loves them too, and they sing about how this is the best thing that has happened to them.
"All my life
I've been searching for you
How did I survive
In this world before you
Cause I don't want to live
Another day without you now"

The song,"Forgiven," is a slightly dark song about forgiveness, and not casting the first stone, so to speak, because as the song says,
"And you can't see past the blood on my hands
To see that you've been aptly damned
To fail and fail again

Cause we're all guilty of the same things
We think the thoughts whether or not we see them through
And I know that I have been forgiven
And I just hope you can forgive me too"

"Must have Done Something Right," is a song about a person who can't believes that they ended up with this person, and that this person is so much better than they are. And that they'd to have done something right to land them.
"If anyone could make me a better person you could
All I gotta say is I must've done something good
You came along one day and you rearranged my life
All I gotta say is I must've done something right"

Check out Relient K's site and their Myspace to learn more about them!

I know I've only described a few of the songs on the CD, but just to give you an idea, here's a play list of some of the songs off the CD.