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There’s an old jazz standard called I Have The Room Above Her, and it’s a love song, like, ‘I hear her come in, and I hear her get dressed, and I’m in love with her, blah blah blah…’ I thought that was kinda cool. And I’m a big comic book nerd – I love Batman, and I love the really spooky Batman comic books, like Damned and Arkham Asylum and The Long Halloween. The really dark ones. I was reading it, just sitting there at my desk one day, and thinking about I Have The Room Above Her. And I was like, ‘That’s also kinda weird and stupid, because he’s listening to this lady down below him, and it’s a weird kind of voyeur thing.’ But then I was like, ‘What if she’s a vampire and she’s killing people down there?!’ People think it’s about having an affair – with the lines, ‘ But I’m afraid that if I see her / I will not see you again’ – but it’s not about that; it’s because she’s gonna kill you. You start reading enough comic books and really spin your imagination, and I was like, ‘What if this lady is a vampire or a murderer, and she lives beneath him?’ And there’s the line, ‘ Sometimes I think I hear some movement / Like something can’t get away,’ and he’s hearing all these weird sounds, like, ‘What is going on down there?!’ but he’s too scared to look. And so, actually, it’s a horror song ( laughs). And then the end is the guy sitting in the corner of his bedroom late at night, and he’s playing the radio really quiet, so she doesn’t hear him and know that he’s home. I’ve never told anyone what it’s exactly about before!” Offiziellecharts.de – The Gaslight Anthem – History Books" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved November 3, 2023. Saalman, Austin. "The Gaslight Anthem - History Books (Thirty Tigers)". Under the Radar . Retrieved October 29, 2023. Cohen, Jonathan. "The Gaslight Anthem Reveal 2022 Reunion Tour Dates". Spin . Retrieved July 21, 2023. Austriancharts.at – The Gaslight Anthem – History Books" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved November 8, 2023.

The Gaslight Anthem Concert Setlist at House of Blues, Houston, TX, USA". setlist.fm . Retrieved July 21, 2023. Walton, Ed (October 25, 2023). "ALBUM REVIEW: History Books – The Gaslight Anthem". Distorted Sound . Retrieved October 28, 2023. Well, definitely the first song, Spider Bites. That almost captures the whole record. But I also think Michigan, 1975 also really captures a lot of the record. And The Weatherman does, for sure. I mean, there’s a lot. They all belong there, and this time I feel like we didn’t mess up and leave a Blue Dahlia [Handwritten B-side] off the record!” I Live In The Room Above Her’ explodes with powerful guitar riffs, staging a grand introduction, tempering off a little for the verses while still holding a bite to the tones. The dramatic swinging of the main hook culminates in the biggest chorus on History Books. The distorted guitar tones ring out and a softer final verse fades out. Album closer ‘A Lifetime of Preludes’ mirrors the solemn album introduction of ‘Spider Bites’, sending History Books home on a soft and somber note filled with regretful nostalgia and holding a bittersweet finality to itself. The LP delves into “everything from mortality to mental illness to the more precarious dimensions of human connection” throughout, and “achieves the tremendous feat of hitting every raw nerve while endlessly inspiring wildly triumphant singing-along”.Shutler, Ali (April 29, 2023). "The Gaslight Anthem return with first new song in nine years, announce US tour". NME . Retrieved August 16, 2023. I think everything is better,” begins Brian Fallon, when asked to compare the last time The Gaslight Anthem released an album to now. It’s a simple answer, but an emphatic one. “ Everything!”

Michigan, 1975 9/16/23 Grand Rapids, MI (song premiere)" ". September 18, 2023 . Retrieved October 3, 2023– via YouTube. Following the reunion announcement, on March 28 the band announced a world tour, with dates across Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. [16] The tour began at the Columbiahalle in Berlin, Germany, on August 9, 2022, and concluded on October 8, 2022, at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey, [17] with another round of tour dates across North America throughout May 2023 announced in February 2023. [18]

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Fans are really resonating with that song – and particularly the line, ‘ I’d be young better now.’ Was that inspired by any one thing from the past, or just a more broad feeling?