Brand New - Sowing Season Lyrics Meaning

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
Rudyard Kipling

This part of the song is from a poem by rudyard kipling called if. Its said that Jesse saw this poem at his fathers house and used that part of the poem in the song.

According to Kipling in his autobiography Something of Myself, posthumously published in 1937, the poem was inspired by Dr Leander Starr Jameson, who in 1895 led a raid by British forces against the Boers in South Africa, subsequently called the Jameson Raid.[2] This defeat increased the tensions that ultimately led to the Second Boer War. The British press, however, portrayed Jameson as a hero in the middle of the disaster, and the actual defeat as a British victory.

I think this songs about the mistake jameson made in the raid. He went a lot earlier then he was supposed to. This caused him to get captured by the boer army. The part when he says a whisper from your father couldnt fix it made me believe that his father told jameson not to do this raid and jameson didn't listen. This caused him to get captured in the raid.