YMMV / The Script

• Heartwarming Moments:
  • "Science and Faith" is about the singer realizing that love is beyond science and that he has been too cynical to realize how happy love can make him.
  • "For the First Time" is about a couple's determination to stick together through hard times.
  • "This is Love" is all about various forms of love and what the Power of Love can accomplish.
  • In "I'm Yours", the singer admits his many faults but tells the listener that he will stick by her despite them.
  • "Flares" is about how the singer coming to help someone when they're having a hard time in their life.
• Moment of Awesome: "Hall of Fame" is pretty much a moment of awesome in song. Every line is some kind of "Give them hell".
  You can go be the greatest, you can be the best
  You can be the King Kong banging on your chest
  You can beat the world, you can beat the war
  You can go to God, go banging on his door
  
  You can throw your hands up
  You can beat the clock
  You can move a mountain
  You can break rock
• Seasonal Rot: 3 received bad reviews. All albums before and after were much better-received.
• Tear Jerker:
  • "Breakeven" is a bleak breakup song in which the singer complains that he is struggling after his breakup while his girlfriend recovered.
  • In "Walk Away," the singer warns his girlfriend to leave her, knowing that he will hurt her if she stays.
  • "Flares" starts out as one when it's all about the pain in the listener's life, but rapidly transforms into heartwarming as the singer declares his desire to help them out and lets them now You Are Not Alone.
  • "If You Could See Me Now" might hit a note for everyone who has lost their parent, as the singer recounts how their father encouraged them to be a singer all their life, and now that they have made it he is no longer there to see it.
• Signature Song: "Breakeven" was their first big hit and held this title for a while, but "Hall of Fame" became even more popular. Both are played reasonably often and get big reactions at live performances, with "Hall of Fame" usually being the closer.