Playlist Taking Back Sunday

taking back sunday - make damn sure

You've got this new head filled up with smoke
I got my veins all tangled close
To the jukebox bars you frequent
The safest place to hide
A long night spent with your most obvious weakness
You start shaking at the thought
You are everything I want
'Cause you are everything I'm not

And we lay, we lay together
Just not too close, too close
(How close is close enough?)
We lay, we lay together
Just not too close, too close

I just wanna break you down so badly
(Well I trip over everything you say)
I just wanna break you down so badly
(In the worst way)

My inarticulate store bought hangover hobby kit
It talks, it says you, oh you are so cool
Scissor shaped across the bed,
You are red, violent red
You hollow out my hungry eyes
You hollow out my hungry eyes

And we lay, we lay together
Just not too close, too close
(How close is close enough?)
We lay, we lay together
Just not too close, too close

I just wanna break you down so badly
(Well I trip over everything you say)
I just wanna break you down so badly
(In the worst way)
I just wanna break you down so badly
(Well I trip over everything you say)
I just wanna break you down so badly
(In the worst way) Worst way!

I'm gonna make damn sure
That you can't ever leave
No you won't ever get too far from me
You won't ever get too far from me
I'll make damn sure
That you can't ever leave
No you won't ever get too far from me,
You won't ever get too far from me
You won't ever get too far from me (never get too far)
You won't ever get too far

I just wanna break you down so badly
(Well I trip over everything you say)
I just wanna break you down so badly
(In the worst way) Worst way
I'm gonna make damn sure (I just wanna bring you down so badly)
I just wanna break you down so badly (Damn sure)
(In the worst way) Worst way

taking back sunday - catholic knees

Dusting off the old life from my catholic knees
I've scraped them up good
(Scraped them up good)
Scraped them up good
You doctored to turn them clean

Oh yes, we are patient, patient
Salt-licked wounds merely bruised
None of that'll matter
None of that'll matter soon
Agitate, see how much you can take
None of that'll matter
None of that'll matter

Everything was moving so fast
Everything was moving so fast
Everything was moving so fast
Everything was moving...

Before my hands had the chance to grow
All I was told
"good enough's as good as it's gonna get"
Yeah "good enough's as good as you'll ever get"

Said I made a conscious decision
Shake the skin I been stuck in
Stretched my bones
Believe in nothing

I can't quite seem to catch my breath
(but I couldn't forget)
None of that'll matter soon
(None of that'll matter soon)
None of that'll matter soon
(None of that'll matter soon)
Lord, please keep my feet flat on the ground

Everything was moving so fast
Everything was moving so fast
Everything was moving so fast
Everything was moving so fast

That's where you came in
Yeah, here we are
Yeah, here I am
That's where you came in
Lord, please keep my feet flat on the ground
Lord, keep my feet flat on the ground

Everything was moving so fast
Everything was moving so fast
Everything was moving so fast
Everything was moving...

taking back sunday - great romances of the 20th century

September never stays this cold
Where I come from, and you know
I?m not one for complaining (I'm not one for complaining),
But I love the way you?d roll
Excuses off the tip of your tongue
As I slowly fall apart (slowly, quietly, slowly)
Fall apart

This won?t mean a thing come tomorrow
And that?s exactly how I?ll make it seem
Cause I'm still not sleeping,
Thinking I?ve crawled home from worse than this

So please, please (please)
I?m running out of sympathy (I'm running out of sympathy!)
And I never said I?d take this
I never said I'd take this lying down

She says
"Come on, come on, let?s just get this over with?
She says
"Come on, come on, let?s just get this over with?
(I never said I?d take this lying down, let's just get this over with,
and I've crawled home from worse than this)
She says
"Come on, come on, let?s just get this over with?
She says
"Come on, come on.."

(You always come close but this never comes easy)
I still know everything
(You always come close but you never come easy)
I still know everything
(This always comes close but you never come easy)
I still know everything
(You always come so close...)
I still know everything, I still know everything, I still know...

You always come close but this never comes easy
You always come close but you never come easy
You always come... you come in close

(I never said I'd take this lying down)
I never said I'd take this lying down
But I've crawled home from worse than this
If it's not keeping you up nights
(Then what?s the point?)
Then what?s the point?
(Then what?s the point?)
Then what?s the point?

I'm in your room
Is this turning you on
Am I turning you on?

I'm in your room
Are you turned on?
I'm on the corner of your bed,
I'm thinking maybe,
Are you turned on,
Are you turned on?

taking back sunday - 12 days of christmas

Hey, Merry Christmas, Adam!
Merry Christmas, Fred!
Merry Christmas to everyone
Yeah man
You having a good year?
Yeah, It just feels good to be next to you here on the holidays
Hearing you say merry Christmas
It just warms my heart, man
It's like soul food, like fired okra
Dude, I'm having a great holiday this year, It's awesome
Yeah man, so you wanna sing for these people or what?
Yeah, here we go
Okay

On the first day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
A partridge in a pear tree
I don't even know what a partridge is, to be honest
A partridge is a bird
I think it's a bird that doesn't fly
Like Danny Bonaduce?
Um, no, it's ?
He's ripped, ripped I'm telling you
I heard he's a little, you know, fallen on the deep end, maybe
Oh, yeah, well
He's gonna kick my ass now
No, it's against that napoleon complex, he's short

So, on the, on the second day of Christmas
My true love gave to me two turtle doves
And a partridge in a pear tree
Turtle doves?
They're nice
Do they have shells?
Uh, I don't know

But, on the third day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Three French hens
Two turtle doves
And a partridge in a pear tree
From now on can you sing
"And a Danny Bonaduce"?
[Laughs]

On the fourth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Four calling birds
Three French hens
Two turtle doves
And a Danny Bonaduce
That's good!
Yeah, yeah, it works, the syllables

Yeah, so I started to wonder
If my true love, my old lady
Was going to get me anything
Other than a bunch of birds
Yeah, they're all, like, pooping everywhere and stuff, it's gross
They're hard to clean up after
So far she got me four calling birds,
French hens, turtle doves
The French hens, which are the French hens
They're eating all your cheese
Drinking up all your wine
Like all hours of the day
I love France
So, I was wondering when
She was going to get me something good

And on the fifth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Five golden rings
Nice!
Yeah, I was finally happy
Four calling birds
Three French hens
Two turtle doves
And a par?Danny Bonaduce

So, like, with the five golden rings
That's kinda nice
Yeah, but on the sixth day
She started getting?
Like Lil Wayne
Or what's another rapper
That has like a bunch of silly jewelry?
Um, I don't know any, man

But, on the sixth day
It kinda went downhill
And the seventh cause she got me
Six geese a-laying
Geese a-laying?
Like laying down?
No, like, geese that are laying
Like, ohhh, like
That's gross
Yeah, I don't know about that
And then on the seventh day?
I often wonder how geese would go about doing that
If you're picking up what I'm putting down
I-I don't want to talk about it, man
Okay

On the seventh day?
Seventh day
Seven swans swimming
More birds!
Swimming?
I hate it

On the eight day it got really weird
Cause on the eight day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Eight maids a-milking
What?!
Yeah!
What, are they milking the geese cause they're laying?
I think they're like lactating or something
I don't get that
Yeah
I'm not into it

But, on the ninth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Nine ladies dancing
Nice! Okay, cool
Oh, well that explains the maids a-milking
No, these were like exotic dancers
Like you can see on the internet
Yeah, it was nice
There was like one of those poles and all that stuff
Yeah, but this is your old lady
That's getting you all these things
That's kinda weird
I know, but she's looking out for me, you know
Tenth day, tenth day
Okay

On the tenth day it got crazy again
Cause she gave me ten lords a -leaping
Like the dark lords?
I don't know
That's so weird

And then the eleventh day
Pipers piping
Pipers piping?
These are, by far, the strangest gifts I have ever received
I don't understand?
Wait, like, laying pipe?
No, that's the geese that are laying pipe
Oh, well maybe they're laying it with the pipers
Which would be weird all together

But, on the twelfth day of Christmas
This is the last day
My true love gave to me
Twelve drummers drumming
Everybody could use a good drummer
Yeah, I could use twelve drummers
Yeah
The Grateful Dead had two drummers
Dude, Slipknot has like ten
Yeah
Did you get to, like, choose which drummers
Or are they just studio guys?
I think they were pretty bad ass
Oh, cool
I mean, not that Mark's not
I mean, Mark's kicking some ass
Yeah
You know
Was he one of the twelve?
Um, I don't know, but

So, let's go down the list
And finish this godforsaken song off
Oh, okay
And wish everyone a very merry Christmas

Twelve drummers drumming
Eleven pipers piping
Ten lords a-leaping
Nine ladies dancing
Let's give it up for the ladies dancing
Go ladies!
Okay
Eight maids a-milking
Seven swans a-swimming
Six geese a-laying
Five golden rings
Four calling birds
Three French hens
Two turtle doves
And a Danny Bonaduce

Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!

taking back sunday - a decade under the influence

Sad, Small, sweet, so delicate
We used to be this dying breed
(I got a bad feeling about this
I got a bad feeling about this)

You kept still until the long drive home
You slept safe and close to the window...
(I got a bad feeling about this
I've got a bad feeling about...)

Who's to say you'll have to go? (I could go all night)
Well say you'll have to go (I could go all...)
To hell with you and all your friends
To hell with you and all your friends, it's on

Sad, small sure in porcelain
You're skin and bones, I'm a nervous wreck (when It comes to this)
(I got a bad feeling about this
I got a bad feeling about this)

You kept still until the long drive home
You slept safe and close to the window
(I got a bad feeling about this
I got a bad feeling about...)

Who's to say you'll have to go? (I could go all night)
Well, say you'll have to go (I could go all...)
To hell with you and all your friends
To hell with you and all your friends, it's on

Well I got a bad feeling about this (what is this for?)
I got a bad feeling about...

Anyone will do tonight
Anyone will do tonight
Close your eyes, just settle, settle
Close your eyes, just settle, settle
Anyone will do tonight
Anyone will do tonight
Close your eyes, just settle, settle
Close your eyes, just settle, settle
Anyone (anyone) will do tonight
Anyone (anyone) will do tonight
Close your eyes, just settle, settle
Close your eyes, just settle, settle

Well I got a bad feeling about this,
I got a bad feeling about this (to hell with you and all your
friends, it's on).
I'm coming over but it never was enough
I thought it through and my worst brings out the best in you
Well I got a bad feeling about this
I got a bad feeling about this (to hell with you and all your
friends, it's on)
I'm coming over but it never was enough
I thought it through and my worst brings out the best in you
Well I got a bad feeling about this
I got a bad feeling about this (to hell with you and all your
friends, it's on)
I'm coming over but it never was enough,
I thought it through and my worst brings out the best in you
Well I got a bad feeling about this,
I got a bad feeling about this (in you...).
I'm coming over but it never was enough,
I thought it through and my worst brings out the best in you
Well I got a bad feeling about this,
I got a bad feeling about this (in you...).
I'm coming over but it never was enough
I thought it through and my worst brings out the best in you
I got a bad feeling about this,
I got a bad feeling about this,
I got a bad feeling about this (in you, I am...)
I got a bad feeling about this (in you, I am...)
I got a bad feeling about this (in you, I am...)
I got a bad feeling about this (in you, I am...)
I got it bad (yeah)
I got it bad
I got it bad
I got it bad
I got it bad
I got it bad

taking back sunday - autobiography of a nation

write these words back down inside we have burned their villages
and all the people in them died and we adopt their customs
and everythign they say we steal all the dreams they had we kill
still we all sleep sound tonight
is this what you wanted to hear
we erased their images and dance
and replaced them with borders and flags
everything they say we stole
at the top of this timeline you'll rmember
this is the lipstick in the collar and in my own life
i've seen it in the mirror
sometimes at the cost of others hopes
so write these words back down inside that's where you need it
the most
and without conviction of heart you will never feel it at all
yeah we all dance to the same beat when we're marching yeah
the tv tells us everytihgn we need to know
and this scene is painted in all the fashions of the moment
and history is all the same
everything you say you stole
every dream you dreamt you bought

taking back sunday - beautiful girl

A beautiful girl can make you dizzy,
Like you've been drinking jack and coke all morning.
She can make you feel high,
Full of the single greatest commodity known to man:
Promise. promise of a better day,
Promise of a greater hope,
Promise of a new tommorow.
This particular aura,
Can be found in the gait of a beautiful girl.
In her smile, and in her soul.
In the way she makes every rotten little thing about life
Seem like it's gonna be ok.

September never stays this cold,
Where i come from and you know,
I'm not one, for complaining.
But i love the way you roll
Excuses off the tip of your tounge,
As i (slowly) slowly, quietly, slowly, fall apart.

This won't mean a thing come tomorrow,
And that's exactly how i'll make it seem.
'cause i'm still not sleeping,
Thinking i've crawled home from worse than this.
So please, please, (please)
I'm running out of sympathy,(i'm running out of sympathy)
I never said i'd take this,
I never said i'd take this lying down.

She says, "c'mon c'mon,
Lets just get this over with."(3x)

I never said i'd take this lying down.
Well i've crawled home from worse than this,
From worse than this!

You always come close
But this never comes easy.
I still know everything.(3x)

You always come close
But this never comes easy.(2x)

I never said i'd take this lying down.(2x)

You always come!
You're coming close.

I never said i'd take this lying down.
But i've crawled home from worse than this.
If it's not keeping you up at night,
Then what's the point?(4x)

I'm in your room,
Well is this turning you on?
Am i turning you on?

I'm in your room,
Are you turned on?
I'm on the corner of your bed
Are you turned on?(2x)

taking back sunday - best places to be a mom

Thought a lot about the morning after
There's some things I need to get off my chest
Reject the preconceptions we both surely have
That the grass is always greener
Or temptation tastes much sweeter
I don't wanna talk
I don't wanna talk
Peel back your skin, invite me in...

Am I just like the rest of them?
(The rest of them)
The sum of my father
And all his sins
I didn't need an answer when it
You said it all, saying nothing at all
You said it all, saying nothing at all...

I see it so much clearer
Through the smoke and past the mirrors
Past the bright brutality of people we have been
But you didn't need an explanation
Oh I had no expectations
I don't wanna talk
No I don't wanna talk
Peel back your skin, invite me in...

Am I just like the rest of them?
(The rest of them)
The sum of my father
And all his sins
I didn't need an answer when it
You said it all, saying nothing at all
You said it all...

The waiting for this in suspense
The hope at the foot of my bed
I don't wanna talk, don't wanna talk
I don't wanna talk, don't wanna talk
Just wanna taste you...

Am I just like the rest of them?
(The rest of them)
The sum of my father
And all his sins
I didn't need an answer when it
You said it all, saying nothing at all
You said it all, saying nothing at all
Said it all, saying nothing at all
Said it all, saying nothing at all...

taking back sunday - bike scene

I'll leave the lights down low
so she knows I mean business
And maybe we could talk this over
Cause I could be your best bet
Let alone your worst ex
And let alone your worst...

I wanna hate you so bad
But I can't (but I can't) stop this
anymore than you can

So honestly, how could you say those things
when you know they don't mean anything
And you know very well
that I can't keep my hands to myself,
hands to myself

I wanna hate you so bad
But I can't (but I can't) stop this
anymore than you can

This is all wrong and it shows
There's certain things I promised not to let you know,
(I've got a silly way of keepin you up on the edge of my seat,
I've got a silly way of keepin you up on the...)
not to let you know
I never let you, never let you, never...

You've got this silly way
of keeping me on the edge of my seat
But you're only counting the clock against the train
And I'm miserable, oh
(I've got a silly way of keepin you up on the edge of my seat,
I've got a silly way of keepin you up on the...)
And you're just getting started
I'm miserable, oh
And you're just getting started

You've got me right where you want me
(let's never talk) Let's never talk, let's never,
let's never talk about this again because...
I didn't want it to mean that much to me
I didn't want it to mean that much to me
I didn't want it to mean that much to me
I didn't want it to mean that much to me

Anyway... yeah

taking back sunday - bonus mosh pt ii

So, scream I heard about your message,
And how it reeks of your indifference,
Simply tied horizontal straight from your wrists.
(So scream louder now)
I'm bound to come around about
(Bound to come around)
But can't you, can't you feel it rolling off your lips,
Tensing up your shoulders,
C'mon say it...

[Chorus]
Well, it's love (It's love)
Make it hurt (I deserve it)
Well, it's love (It's love)
Make it hurt (I deserve it)
Well, it's love, it's love, it's love...
Make it hurt.

I said I use the inconsistencies
That undress the machine,
You're the poster boy, their selling point, the focus for their
new campaign.
(Something has to be)
Bound to come around about
(Bound to come around)
Oh, but can't you, can't you feel it rolling off your lips,
Tensing up your shoulders, c'mon...

[Chorus]

The keys to the castle
(Are right where I left them)
The princess walked in just to take more attention,
'Cause after all, well isn't that all that I've been after and,

After all, well isn't that all that I'm after,
You're so...

(No way out) I give up in you, well, I give up in you,
(No way out) I give up in you.
(No way out) Well, I give up in you, I give up in you,
(No way out) Well, I give up in you.

I wanted you for nothing more,
Than hating you for what you were,
If that's what you wanted to hear,
(Well, if that's what you wanted to hear)
I wanted you for nothing more,
Than hating you for what you were,
(Don't leave, leave) If that's what you wanted to hear,
(If that's what you wanted to hear)
I wanted you for nothing more,
Than hating you for what you were,
(Don't leave, leave) If that's what you wanted to hear,
(If that's what you wanted to hear)
(It's love, it's love) I wanted you for nothing more,
(Make it hurt, I deserve it) Than hating you for what you were,

(If that's what you wanted to hear)
That's what you wanted to hear,
(To hear) If that's what you wanted to hear.
(If that is how you'll let it burn)

taking back sunday - brooklyn

Well you are worth more than the man I am
Sad and in love, hands trembled of life that we would have stolen
Anyways, stolen
Well, anyway

To Brooklyn, I'm homebound
A trap to the east
Marking miles of martyrs
With better men, with better men than me
And I wanted to tell you, I just didn't know

Genuine and unprepared
If you, you see something then you should say something
If you, you see something could you just say something

Genuine and unprepared
If you, you see something then you should say something
If you, you see something could you just say something
Say something

Something awful itches in these walls
I found a subtle genius in that white, hot hatred of yours
Misuse is practice, perfected and played
In time I'm gonna get what's mine

To Brooklyn, I'm homebound
A trap to the east
Marking miles of martyrs
With better men, with better men than me
And I wanted to tell you, I just didn't know how

Genuine and unprepared
If you, you see something then you should say something
If you, you see something could you just say something

Genuine and unprepared
If you, you see something then you should say something
If you, you see something could you just say something
Say something

Oh, we are going, we're going, we're...
Once, twice, three times, sold!

You're better off believing everything you heard was true

You're better off believing everything you heard was

You're better off believing everything you heard was true

You're better off believing everything you heard was

Genuine and unprepared
If you, you see something then you should say something
If you, you see something could you just say something

Genuine and unprepared
If you, you see something then you should say something
If you, you see something could you just say something

You say something

Say something

taking back sunday - call me in the morning

Well, I don't know where you're going
But I know where you've been
I've been tracing all your footsteps
I've been counting up your sins
A ticking bomb, a false alarm, a wrecking ball...
You left before I had the chance to say:

"Just call me in the morning."
Call me when you're home
I know what you've been through, don't let go
Don't let go...

Well you reached into my mouth
Pulled out a single bloody tooth
I've never shown that to anyone
Yeah, no one knows but you
A ticking bomb, a false alarm, a wrecking ball...
I left before you had the chance to say:

"Just call me in the morning."
Call me when you're home
I know what you've been through, don't let go
Honey, don't let go

Just call me in the morning
Call me when you're home
I know what you've been through
Don't let go

Oh!

You never knew that it would take so long
(You never knew that it would take so...)
To understand you're right where you belong.

I don't know where we're going
But I know where we've been
We've been hiding from each other
we've been hiding from our sins

Call me in the morning
Call me when you're home
I know what you've been through
Don't let go

Call me in the morning
Call me when you're home
I know what you've been through
Don't let go

(Don't let go)
Don't know where we're going!
(Don't let go)
But I know where we've been!
(Don't let go)
We've been hiding from each other!
(Don't let go)
We've been hiding from our sins!

Call me when you're home...
I know what you've been through...
Don't let go...

taking back sunday - capital m e

The nicest man i ever met
was more malicious than malcontent
yeah he taught me how to hold my tongue
and wait to strike til their backs were turned
and you slither away like the snake that you are
yeah you slither away like the snake that you are

All i ever did was look up to you
if all i ever did was let, let you down
ain't nothin stopping me now

Divinity spell correctly beneath the receding pride of his twenties was
capital M-E(I could've subscribed)
Was capital M-E(But you cant say i didn't try)
You say what you want(maybe i didn't get my way)
so you say what you want(maybe i didn't get my way)

All i ever did was look up to you
if all i ever did was let, let you down
ain't nothin stopping me now

Was it everything you hoped for?
was it all of that and more?
too much to, soon up to
could you be true, was it
everything you hoped for?
was it all of that and more?

All i ever did was look up to you
if all i ever did was let, let you down
ain't nothin stopping me now

taking back sunday - carpathia

I'm gonna leave the same way I came
Up from the ashes, then I'm from the ashes
If our house had stood here on this wood foundation
Then you, you could've fooled me
I admit I was a fool for your southern days
(One hundred and fifty degrees in the shade)
It wasn't an option to go back to my place
(No, I was put in my place)
And you...

We lived in separate houses
We have for all our lives
It would've been nice to say
(It would've been nice to say)
Sure would've been nice to say I knew you
When, oh, when will this sinking feeling
Feel like, "Man, that was ages ago?"

I don't worry half as much as I did
When I was an experiment, your resident tourniquet
Life's not about your neck
Wait, just what is it?
I am the mantle, and you're a painting
Come rest your frame on me
(Come rest your frame on me)
I was a tower, and you were an airplane
We happened before we knew what was happening

We lived in separate houses
We have for all our lives
It would've been nice to say
(It would've been nice to say)
Sure would've been nice to say...
When, oh, when will this sinking feeling
Feel like, "Man, that was ages ago?"
When, oh, when will this sinking feeling
Feel like, "Man, that was ages ago?"

"Man, that was ages ago..."
"Man, that was ages ago..."

("Man, that was ages ago...")
We lived inside each other
Such careless, lazy lovers
("Man, that was ages ago...")
Would've been nice to say
Sure would've been nice to say

When, oh, when will this sinking feeling
Feel like, "Man, that was ages ago?"
When, oh, when will this sinking feeling
Feel like, "Man, that was ages ago?"

("Man, that was ages ago...")
Man, that was ages ago...

taking back sunday - concealer

with fists raised high in tightened knots
the room explodes and now this blood is on your hands
and there is no time for a second chance
to paint my face with blood and tears and cover up
in an open book that no one reads
a misspelled word that no one knows
you stole the rain
and then you turned around and tore my life in two
just like the picture
that once hung on the wall in the room that we used to share
so fold me up
and put me back in the place where you used to keep your heart
you think its getting smaller?
its been that way for quite some time now
the cadence beats down on the tar
it sounds the same as your fists raining down
(if you wanted to change the way i look at you...)
we've go to leave before the sun sets
or maybe we don't have time
time to waste
it won't be long until you're gone into the night
(if you wanted to change the way i look at you...)
you won't have time to paint my face with cover-up

taking back sunday