Listen to this when
Seventy Times 7
Forgive them? Still deciding 🥀
Who it's for
Brand New's Jesse Lacey wrote this in the middle of a public feud with a former close friend, wrestling with a broken friendship and whether to forgive.
Betrayed and bitter→Working through it
Feelings it meets
What it is
"Seventy Times 7" is a song from Brand New's debut album, Your Favorite Weapon, released in October 2001 through Triple Crown Records. It is about a feud between frontman Jesse Lacey and John Nolan of Taking Back Sunday, who wrote about the same feud from his side in "There's No 'I' in Team." The title refers to Matthew 18:22, the biblical passage on forgiveness.
Where to find it
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Before you start
Heads up: Explicit language.
Age: Suggested 16+
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter LXXII
