“Alive With the Glory of Love” by Say Anything

"Alive With the Glory of Love" first surfaced on Say Anything's For Sale... EP in 2004, then came roaring back to front the band's second album, ...Is a Real Boy, as its first single, hitting radio in June 2006 and the shops that September. Max Bemis wrote it, and it's a love song set in the darkest place imaginable: a half-true story drawn from his own grandparents, both survivors of the Holocaust, following a couple holding on to each other through the ghetto, time in hiding and a work camp.

Bemis has said he was thinking about what it means to love someone and be torn away from them, and why that still matters now. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette heard it as intense and strangely uplifting, which is about right for a song that screams hope at the worst of history. It climbed to 28 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart.

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