11/21/2023 0 Comments Captin crunch lyrics![]() ![]() Dead-friend residue is going to be all over that thing. Ashes should at minimum be stored in a lid-tight container, or else you’re going to have ash everywhere.Īlso, do they plan to eat out of that bowl later? That’s revolting. Those ashes are irreverently stored in a cereal bowl, which, it should be said, carries no distinction from other types of bowls. “Breakfast” sets a scene (table?) of a group of friends gathering to scatter the ashes of their dead friend. We’re gathered here to sprinkle ashes / From our late friend’s cereal bowl Hold the milk, put back the sugar / They are powerless to console, Despite its color, the song can be pretty tasteless at times (kind of like Lucky Charms). In other words, the Newsboys were really, really proud of “Breakfast,” and Christians were really, really jamming out to this song 11 years ago. It would go on to appear on a staggering nine other albums, including about a half-dozen different Newsboys Greatest Hits collections. 4 position in January 1997, a time when Toni Braxton, the Spice Girls and Blackstreet (yep) were jockeying around the mainstream Hot 100. “Breakfast” spent 13 weeks- that’s a quarter of a year- on the CCM charts. Also, there are damnation warnings (“They don’t serve breakfast in hell!”). The song combines food puns (“Rise up Fruit Loop lovers, sing out Sweet and Low”) with funeral iconography (“With spoons held high, we bid our brother Cheerio”) to strike a nice, healthy, balanced tone of swashbuckling humor and oh-by-the-way-our-friend-is-dead-forever morbidity. “Breakfast” is about-I swear this is true-these guys who mourn the death of their friend by honoring what he loved most in this world: breakfast. ![]()
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