Taking Back Sunday Album

well my dear what long arms you have
all the better to hold you down
slap my wrists with that sweet consequence

what are we, what are we to do,
what are we, to do with you (x2)

i am, i'm ready to be new again
i'm ready to hear you say, who i am is quite enough (quite enough) (x2)

well my dear what deep roots you have
all the better to hold you down
we live inside your branches
your family's nest asks
boy where have you been
you don't know where i've been

what are we to, to do with you (x2)

i am, i'm ready to be new again
i'm ready to hear you say, who i am is quite enough (quite enough) (x2)

don't know where i've been (x2)

well my dear what long arms you have
all the better to hold you down

i am, i'm ready to be new again
i'm ready to hear you say, who i am is quite enough (quite enough) (x2)

cause you don't know where i've been
no you don't know where i've been
you don't know where i've been
you don't know where, you don't know where no.

i am, i'm ready to be new again
i'm ready to hear you say, who i am is quite enough (quite enough)

i am i am, i'm ready to be new again
i'm ready to hear you say, who i am is quite enough (quite enough)

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Go on tell me that you're better and you'd rather just forget
that things have gone so far,
Yeah tell that me that you're better and you'd rather just forget
that things have gone too far

Woah!

You're all I see
Sink into me
Sharpen your teeth,
Sink into me
Sink into me
(Sink in, sink in)

Well I'd like to see all roles reveresed
to watch you hang on every word,
I'd like to see you have your way
I keep my grammar well rehearsed
Correct each stutter every slur
Come on and have your way with me

Now tell me that you're better and you'd rather just forget
that things have gone so far
You tell me that your better and you'd rather just forget
and things have gone too far

Heyyyy!

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

You're all I see
Sink into me
Sharpen your teeth,
Sink into me
Sink into me
(Sink in, sink in)

Well I'd like to see all roles reveresed
to watch you hang on every word,
I'd like to see you have your way
I keep my grammar well rehearsed
Correct each stutter every slur
Come on and have your way with me
Come on and have your way with me

I'd like to be in all the kind
Who could sing, but don't 'cause you're shy
That way I'd live inside your throat
and hang from every word you spoke

All right!

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

You're all I see
Sink into me
Sharpen your teeth,
Sink into me
Sink into me
(Sink in, sink in)

I'd love to see you have your way
Go on and have your way with me
(And hang from every word you spoke)

I'd love to see you have your way,
(Correct each stutter every slur)
Go on have your way with me

Sink into me

your flower tongue wilts with too much sun
and that's where we've been living for so long
she's still sending off the western coast
and watch the sun set with your shrinking voice
see, i hate the boy she loves the most
i'm just enough to fill the void her daddy left.

lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely,
don't you go changing for me.
(she's sin, she's sin)
what can you hide?
what can you hide?
lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely,
don't you go changing for me.

but i often wondered just how deep i could
sink my teeth into that crease on your arm
the place where all the good times,
they grow and grow.

what would it take to stay the same for me?
well, would it sound the same coming from me?
such an awful tearing sound.

lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely,
don't you go changing for me.
(she's sin, she's sin)
what can you hide?
what can you hide?
lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely,
don't you go changing for me.
changing for me...

oh, all the things they said about you,
paper thin walls stacked around you,
an hour glass is silhouetting me.

no matter how hard i try
or how dirty your thought
there is no place on god's great earth
where you can go to hide from me

lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely,
don't you go changing for me.
(she's sin, she's sin)
what can you hide?
what can you hide?
lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely,
don't you go changing for me.
changing for me...

Yeah

I played deaf, immersed in that
Technicolored kind of black and white type
Counting one to seven through the roof
If my lady only knew how high I am
I am tonight

I crack open the safe myself now
Forty-five, twenty-two, June until September
Three months 'til December

The summer is over and I doubt
I doubt I'll be seeing you around
I'll be seeing you around

'Cause I ain't working for you anymore
No, I ain't working for you anymore
So go prove to the world what you already proved
That you just couldn't do on your own

Let's have a talk about the good times
But you were always giving in
Let's have a talk about the good times
Boy, you were only giving in

The summer is over and I doubt
I doubt I'll be seeing you around
I'll be seeing you around

The summer is over and I doubt
I doubt I'll be seeing you around
I'll be seeing you around

Let's have a talk about the good times
But you were always giving in
Let's have a talk about the good times
Boy, you were only giving in to me

The summer is over and I doubt
I doubt I'll be seeing you around
I'll be seeing you around

The summer is over and I doubt
I doubt I'll be seeing you around
I'll be seeing you around

The summer is over and I doubt
I doubt I'll be seeing you around
I'll be seeing you around

The summer is over and I doubt
I doubt I'll be seeing you around
I'll be seeing you around

open the gate to your appartment complex,
your not getting off that easily.
i climb the fence,
the one that you've been sitting on.
(how long)
before i'm just a memory,
(how long)
before you can't remember me,
remember me.

i never had a choice,
i never had a choice,
to lead the choke-hold mold and romance you ???
i couldn't find the part to fix
the lessons nagging in my brain
(how long)
before i'm just a memory,
(how long)
before you can't remember me,
remember me.

lover, lover
on the fence
bat your eyes, ball your fist and swing
swing, swing, swing, swing, swing.

lover, lover
now tell me this,
passion over consequence,
when did the latter take my leave?
just swing, just,
swing, swing, swing, swing, swing.

i never had a choice,
i never had a choice,
the evening lit itself
and watched my reservations fall to the floor
fall to the floor, now sit with me
(how long)
before i'm just a memory,
(how long)
before you can't remember me,
remember me.

lover, lover
on the fence
bat your eyes, ball your fist and swing
swing, swing, swing, swing, swing.

before you leave
lover, lover
tell me this,
passion over consequence,
when did the latter take my leave?
just swing, just,
swing, swing, swing, swing, swing.

open the gate to your appartment complex,
did you forget of your call for me?
(did you forget it?)
how long did you expect to keep me waiting?
how long before i'm just a memory?

lover, lover
on the fence
bat your eyes, ball your fists and swing
swing, swing, swing, swing, swing for me.

lover, love
now tell me this,
passion over consequence,
since when did the latter take the lead?
just swing, just,
swing, swing, swing, swing, swing.

See, it's not like I didn't mean
What I said when I said
"I'll put my money where my mouth is"
And I put my money where my mouth was
Until I couldn't breathe through my nose
And now I'm staring at the floor
Where my second life just ended
Where I lost not one but two friends

Yeah, I had it all
Was sitting on top of the world
But I threw it away
Well, just to prove that I could
I put my money where my mouth is

See, I recall quite perfectly who I was
Both before and after the drugs
Both before and after the drugs
"I'll put my money where my mouth is"
I put my money where my mouth was
I got a strong will, just weak hands
And I don't know what to do
With either one of them

Yeah, I had it all
Was sitting on top of the world
But I threw it away
Just to prove that I could
Just to prove that I could
I put my money where my mouth is
I put my money where my mouth is
I put my money where my mouth is

You're a knight in shining armor
Of a mother and a father
You had everything, everything you needed
And it was made crystal clear
That would not change

Yeah, I had it all
Was sitting on top of the world
But I threw it away
Yeah, just to prove that I could
Yeah, I had it all
Yeah, I had it good, so good
But I threw it away
Just to prove that I could, I could
Just to prove that I could
I put my money where my mouth is
I put my money where my mouth is
I put my money where my mouth is
Yeah, I had it all

On a borrowed mattress, you were stopping time
I've been watching you
I've been watching you
For hours and hours before you knew
You are exciting news
I've been saving up to buy you
You are the polished pearl grips of your father's .45

Give me all those gory details
Do tell, do tell

So cut me up, Jenny
Well, cut me up gently

Well, I took full advantage of
Being taken full advantage of
Yeah, I took what I could get
And eventually it took the place of love
The matchmakers in heaven
Oh, they've got a one-track mind
So in our case, well, I don't think they mind

Fingerprints, a perfect match
You know, you didn't have to leave the way you do
I've been watching you
I've been watching you
Most times you never knew
You are a Sunday afternoon with nothing to do
You are Manhattan in June
As the population's wearing next to nothing

So cut me up, Jenny
Well, cut me up gently

Well, I took full advantage of
Being taken full advantage of
Yeah, I took what I could get
And eventually it took the place of love
The matchmakers in heaven
Oh, they've got a one-track mind
So in our case, I don't think they mind
No, in our case, I don't think they mind

So cut me up, Jenny
Well, cut me up gently

Give me all those gory details
Do tell, do tell

So cut me up, Jenny
Well, cut me up, Jenny

So cut me up, Jenny
Well, cut me up gently

I took full advantage of
Being taken full advantage of
Yeah, I took what I could get
And eventually it took the place of love
The matchmakers in heaven
Oh, they've got a one-track mind
So in our case, I don't think they mind

So cut me up, Jenny
(Cut me up, Jenny)
Cut me up gently
(Cut me up gently)

So cut me up, Jenny
(Cut me up, Jenny)
Oh, cut me up gently
(Cut me up gently)

So cut me up, Jenny
(Cut me up, Jenny)
So cut me up, Jenny
(Cut me up gently)
Oh, cut me up gently
(Cut me up gently)

Cut me up, Jenny
Cut me up gently

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

Oh yes, we are patient, patient
Salt-licked wounds merely bruised
(But none of that'll matter)
None of that'll matter soon
Educate, 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, I made a conscious decision
To shake the skin I was stuck in
It stretched my bones
Believe in nothing
I can't quite seem to catch my breath
(But I cannot forget)

That 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...)

But that's where you came in
Yeah, here we are
Yeah, here I am
That's where you came in
Now, here we are
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...)

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

And all I ever did was look up to you
And if all I ever did was let, let you down
Ain't nothing stopping me now

The vanities fell correctly beneath
The receding part of his twenties
Was capital M-E (I couldn't subscribe)
Was capital M-E (but you can't 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)
But I got, I got away

All I ever did was look up to you
And if all I ever did was let, let you down
Ain't nothing stopping me now

Was it everything you hoped for?
Was it all of that and more?
Too much too soon?
Or too good to be true?
Was it everything you hoped for?
Was it all of that and more?

Well, all I ever did was look up to you
And if all I ever did was let, let you down
Ain't nothing stopping me now

But all I ever did was look up to you
And if all I ever did was let, let you down
Ain't nothing stopping me now

I’m gonna leave the same way I came
Up from the ashes, then out 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 you seven 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 a 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...

We found a house
with a yard
And moved all of my things in
And most of your things in
And honey I was proud of it
Yeah honey I was proud of, you...

You quote the good book
when its convenient
but you dont have the sense
no you dont have the sense
to tie your tangled toungue
instead you slash it through the mud

and some boxes
and hand me down couch, and chair
they used to be at your church
we borrowed them from there
and cabinet-record player
with nothin but james taylor
tore the carpets from the corners
to put in that hardwood floor
i'd be a fool to have asked for more

You quote the good book
when its convenient
but you dont have the sense
no you dont have the sense
to tie your tangled tongue
instead you slash it through the mud

The love you had was good enough
The paths that we were stuck between
beside myself i stop to think,
oh lord what have i done

You quote the good book
when its convenient
but you dont have the sense
no you dont have the sense
to tie your tangled tounge
instead you slash it through the mud

I'm going to leave the same way I came
Up threw the ashes
Then out through the ashes
If a house once stood here on this worn foundation
Then you sure could have fooled me.
Though 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
I was put in my place
After all, we live in separate houses
We have for all our lives
It sure would have been nice to say I knew you, though
I don't worry half as much as I did
When I was an experiment
Your resident tourniquet lax now about your neck
Waiting, just waiting...
Waiting, just waiting...
When will this sinking feeling
Feel like
"Man, that was ages ago"
I am a mantle
You dear, are a painting.
Come rest your frame on me.
Come rest your frame on me.
I was a tower,
You dear, were an airplane.
We happened before we knew what was happening.
It sure would have been nice to say I knew you, though.
Man, that was
Ages ago.

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Dusting off the "all night" from my catholic knees
I scraped them up good
Yeah I scraped them up good
And You
You doctored them clean
Oh yes I am patient,
...salt lick wounds
Merely bruise...
And soon
None of that will matter.
None of that will matter soon
On some ancient date seeing how much you could take
None of that will matter,
None of that will matter soon...
Before my hand had the chance to grow old I was told
"Good enough's as good as it's gonna get"
Yeah, good enough's as good as you'll ever get...
So sister says I,
"I made a concious decision that I'd kill to forget
It went
Shake the skin I've been stuck in
Stretch my bones, honey
Believe in nothing..."
And that's where you came in
Yeah here we are
Yeah, here I am...
Everything was moving so fast
Everything was moving so fast
Everything was moving so fast
I can't quite seem to catch my breath