I Never Said That I Was Brave is an EP by Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...

-based post-hardcore

Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups...

 band mewithoutYou

MewithoutYou

Me Without You, stylized as mewithoutYou and abbreviated as mwY, is an American rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The band consists of vocalist Aaron Weiss, guitarist Michael Weiss, bassist Greg Jehanian and drummer Rickie Mazzotta. MewithoutYou's music is generally dominated by...

, their first-ever recording. It was released on the small Kickstart Audio label in early 2001, and has since been out-of-print.

The five songs feature the band at its hardest sounding, with frontman Aaron Weiss screaming instead of the singing-speaking hybrid he is known for today. Two tracks ("I Never Said That I Was Brave" and "We Know Who Our Enemies Are") were later re-recorded for the band's subsequent album, [A to B] Life; the sequel to "Four Word Letter" appears on Catch for Us the Foxes

Catch for Us the Foxes

Catch for Us the Foxes is indie rock group mewithoutYou's second full-length album, released on October 15, 2004 by Tooth & Nail Records.Catch for Us the Foxes reached a peak position of number 20 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers on October 23, 2004...

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Track listing

Song notes

• "I Never Said That I Was Brave" opens with the lyrics "You might sleep, but you'll never dream", which are from "Suffer Little Children
  Suffer Little Children
  "Suffer Little Children" is a song by the Manchester band, The Smiths, that was included on their eponymous debut album in 1984. The song is about the Moors murders that took place on Saddleworth Moor in the West Riding of Yorkshire between 1963 and 1965...
  
  " by The Smiths
  The Smiths
  The Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce...
  
  . (The song title "Suffer Little Children" is, in turn, taken from a Bible verse Matthew
  Gospel of Matthew
  The Gospel According to Matthew is one of the four canonical gospels, one of the three synoptic gospels, and the first book of the New Testament. It tells of the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth...
  
   19:14.)
• "I never said that I was brave" is also a lyric from Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...
  
  's "So Long, Marianne" off Songs of Leonard Cohen
  Songs of Leonard Cohen
  Songs of Leonard Cohen is the debut album of Canadian musician Leonard Cohen. It foreshadowed the future path of his career, with less success in the United States and far better in Europe, reaching #83 on the Billboard chart but achieving gold status only in 1989, while it reached #13 in UK and...
  
   (1967).
• "We Know Who Our Enemies Are" comprise lyrics taken from the song "Oh Comely" by Neutral Milk Hotel.
• Two Fugazi lyrics are referenced. In "Flamethrower" Weiss sings "promises, promises, promises, words" which is a reference to the Fugazi song "Promises." In "We Know Who Our Enemies Are" the lyric "here comes the kiss-off" is a reference to the Fugazi song "Dear Justice Letter."