The Format Segues into fun.

[07:31:12] I wrote down the lyrics to Be Calm in sentence form instead of stanza form. This is a morose song. It reads like a letter to someone in a mental hospital, from someone in a mental hospital across the street. A note between friends rather than lovers. The narrator has moved recently and is disturbed by his surroundings, to a point that it agitates his already existing anxiety and depression.
There is a specific line that goes "after all, you lost your band, you left your mom." It occurred to me that this was either Nate referring in third person to himself or there was someone else in the picture whom I wasn't aware of.

I hopped on Google and entered "why did The Format break up?" I came across a blog entry that linked me to another blog entry written by the previous manager of The Format. This was by far the best blog entry I have ever read. [I'll link it later]
The manager talked about Nate and Sam, who were apparently the only people fronting the band; they had other "extra" musicians while on tour, just like fun. does. The way he talked about them made me want to cry. Imagery of two disheveled best friends from Arizona smoking ciggs and holding hands for dear life came to mind.
Even though they probably weren't ever holding hands, it thrilled me to think they were the type to do so... The name Sam made me think of Frodo and Sam from Lord of the Rings... And in thinking this, I came to realize that Nate was probably writing this letter that turned into Be Calm to Sam.
I immediately turned back to my notebook and read over the lyrics again; very possible. They were both most likely experiencing separation anxiety after the breakup, which is why the words can apply to both the narrator and the subject.

I haven't been this into a band since you-know-who, and Nate's biography on wikipedia reads probably much like Ryan Ross's does. The difference being that I was present for Ryan Ross's early music career and ditched when he began his next one, and I know virtually nothing about Nate's early years in The Format - only his successes with fun. The Format seems to me like it was sort of disturbed, going by the video for Dog Problems. And those lyrics served to point me in the direction of my Be Calm revelation as well.. The song that has the happiest tune hides the most gloom.