Forever The Sickest Kids hit the reset button on love on their new song "Chin Up Kid."

It might take you a second to confirm that you hit play on the right track at the outset of Forever The Sickest Kids' new song "Chin Up Kid" (from their forthcoming album, J.A.C.K.). The new song opens with a scratchy vinyl effect, a playful string jaunt, and an unexpected triumphant burst of old-timey, guy-on-a-penny-farthing harmonies. Have FTSK gone all Panic At The Disco-meets-Queen on us? But things return to form for the Dallas band soon enough, however, and we're off to the races on a rush of guitars and pop-punk energy.

Listen to Forever The Sickest Kids' "Chin Up Kid" after the jump.

"Everybody hurts every once and in a while/ and everybody goes to sleep with a broken heart," Caleb Turman sings over a cavalcade of guitar noise and underlying synth pulses. "Good things come and go/ but kid you'll learn how to cope." If you're looking for pop-punk's "it gets better" summer anthem, then you've found it.

"It's a feeling that anyone who's been through heartbreak will recognize," the band explained. "'Chin Up Kid' can be a very relatable song to most. We wrote this song about keeping your head up through heartbreak and trying times. Young love can come and go before you realize you even had it."

The song morphs into multiple stylistically different passages besides the out-of-left-field intro before it's through. The verses push along on a traditional punk-pop speed, while the choruses change pace abruptly. Toward the middle of the song, video game effects color in the cracks, forcing home the lyrics about starting over and giving it another shot once it seems like you've lost the game.

"We hope this song motivates the listener to find inner strength to keep moving on and pressing forward." Meet your new soundtrack to soldiering on. J.A.C.K. is out June 25 on Fearless Records.

+ Listen to Forever The Sickest Kids' "Chin Up Kid."

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