Louder Now

Taking Back Sunday Louder Now Lyrics
1.What's It Feel Like To Be a Ghost?

...Then you said a little more about your dreams like that was
my call
'If youwould only listen'
Bypassed everything and went straight for the neck
I study
We're studied
Up nightly
Dreagged you out into the streets before you buckled at the
knees and said
Louder, say it louder now ...
'What's it feel like to be a ghost?'
Quick just not quite painless it sits perched on oyour arms
tacky and irrelevant a
permanent reminder that, oh Christ, Ihave no idea what I am
doing...
I said, 'So look closely, there might be something you like'
'What was it like?'
I look so close but it's been months and who knows if I will get
this right ...
Oh and I...
I study
Up nightly ....
Dragged you out and into the streets before you buckled at your
knees...
A simple question
Asked three times fast
'Are you up?
Are you up for?
Are you up for this?'


2.Liar(It Takes One To Know One)

All our serets they are tailored trouble draped loose now around
your hips
Your spotless instincts are valid
We co-exist
We've got twenty-six days to work with
We've got twenty-six days to see what all gets done,
I'm an addict for dramatics,
I confuse the two for love
'You can't tell me that don't beg...'
Liar, liar
If we're keeping score
Then we're all choir boy at best
(Intrusive and arrogant)
Then back on that island that you swear by
Still barely can afford
(It moves, it moves, it moves)
It remains a question of
'How long will this hold?'
'Is it any different now that we are ...'
'Oh, don't you go there, not here, not now'
Not here
Not now...
Liar, Liar, you silly little boy ...
It takes one to know one,
Besides it's justlike you said...
'We're all choir boys at best.'


3.MakeDamnSure

I just want to break you down so badly...
You've got this new head filled up with smoke
I got my veins all tangled close
To those jukebox bars you frequent
They're 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
Because you are everything I'm not
We lay together
Just not too close
How close is close enough?
In the morning
My inarticulate
Store bought
Hangover hobby kit talks
It says you... oh you...
You are so cool
(I trip over everything you say)
Scissor shaped across the bed
You are red...(Violent red)
You hollow out my hungry eyes
I bite my tongue... I take my time...
And...
I'm going to make damn sure that you can't ever leave
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
You won't ever get too far from me
You won't ever get too far...


4.Up Against(Blackout)

So this is waht we're up against,
Face it,
This is what we're up against.
Waiting and waiting
Every minute is a minute away...
Regrets always work,
However,
Excuses are better
A pratical exchange
A trade for the truth
You know it never held up ...
Pretend that it still could now
This is what we're up against
Waiting and waiting
Every minute is a minute away
Turning the clocks back
We're turning out clocks back
But never ourselves
Prioritizing...
'Go with the flow kid,,
Just relax.'
Just relax.
You never feel the jetlag unless you're trying to fit in
So let's pretend that we still could now...
every minute is a minute away...
Less is more except when it comes to mistakes
'How long is long?'
That depends...
'How long it takes.'
The years
Not months
Not days
Your blackout memory
This is what we're up against...
Face it,
This is what we're up agains.


5.My Blue Heaven

Two sides weist and then collide
You're calling off the guards
I am coming through
Adulteress conditioned to a spin cycled submission...
'You know, sometimes it just feels better to give in'
It felt better you give in,
But it's all too familiar
And it happens all the time
all the cards begin to stack up
Twisting hearache into fine little pieces that avoid an awful
crime
Still it's you I can't deny...
A dull heat rises from the sheets
See, I'm both
Apatient boy...and a jealout man
Am I coming through?
My double standardized suspicion is remedied,
Oh remedy,
My blue heaven
My sweet surrander
My blue heaven
(Take two of these then call me in the morning)
Most times it's just easiere to give in,
I was casier to give in.
So that's just what I did and now as
We swing and we sway
This tiny voice in my head starts to sing
'You're safe child, you are safe.'
You're safe child, you are ...
Is this all too familiar?
Does it happen all the time?
I'm just asking you to hear my...
Could you please,
Just once,
Just hear me...
More than anything you wanted to be right...
You want more than anything to be right
Still it's you...


6.Twenty-Twenty Surgery

I'll take with me every single luxury when I leave you can count
on me
for that and nothing more,
The view from this side's not what I thought it'd be
Promised something different we dose our eyes and let go of the
wheel
(...just...let...go.)
Still, all young childdren listen because they've got so mmuch
to learn
(turn it in, tune out)
We'll get you home in time to make the rent...
(...Should be for free for being me)
It's not the quantity or the quality that bothers me
... It's the means
Twenty-twenty surgery
We're offering,
For this one time only,
Twenty-twenty surgery for cheap...
As the dollar signs doll up a picture prefect point of view for
You are so,
So sensitive...
Me, I am a machine...


7.Spin

That look was priceless
(Oh please dont let me got carried away)
I've seen it before and it still suits you the same
You catch on quick as the cynics stop before they give the sme
review
Someone told me this is where the prty is...
'Are you coming home?'
The abortion that you bad,
It left you clinically dead and made it all that much easier to
lie
Said,'it's nothing that I'm proud of'
Well, It's nothing that I'm proud of
This is phase one
This is a preview
So pay attention
We're making an example out of you
I heard this is where the party is...
'Are you coming home?'
You had your chance
Open arms reject assuming hands...
We're making an example out of you...
So don't act like you're the first one
I treat it like diease
Sure it's rough around the edges
But I'm the onlly thing you see.
Don't act like you can't see me darling,
I'm coming in.
Don't act like you don't see me...
Coming ... listen,
You had your chance
Now spin,
Spin 'sugar' spin....


8.Divine Intervention

Despondent
Distracted
You're vicious and romantic
These are a few of my favorite things
All of those flavors and this is what you choose
Past the bluse and on to something new
Something real
And make it timeless
An act of god
Nothing less will be accepted
If you're calling me out
Then count me out
We're stubborn and melodramatic
A real class act
See, I know a few of your favrite things
And at five in the morning
It all comes up
Pouring out the sme way in
'I need something real, something timeless
An act of god and nothing less will be accepted'
So if you're calling me out
Then count me out...


9.Miami

The whole truth
And nothing but the truth...
'In the morning it's a different story, understand'
The whole truth
Is nothing but a good excuse for
(Stop me if you've heard this one before)
'So long as you don't torture me with your past'
Oh, please,
Let's be honest,
Sideways blinders
Allow reminders to stay
Constant, unreluctant and consistently subject to change...
There is no way around them...
Miami, Miami, Miami,
Every hour on the hour...
(Stop me if you've heard this one before)
'Whoever I was then I can't ever be again.'
'You have to, you just have to trust me'
The terror held in wedding bells
The comfort in 'there's no one else'
The truth be told
(The whole truth...)
I'm never going to know...
The faith you've found I've never felt.


10.Error: Operator

There's been an accident, there's been an accident
Breathe in then out calm down
Calm down
Breathe in...
Then out...
Count backwards from ten
'Murder,
Oh murder,
Where have you been?
Would you,
Oh could you,
Would you do it again?
Sometimes I swear I can see straight through you
Concentrate, Concentrate, Control, Concentrate.
This doesn't feel like anything.
We
Can't
Go
Back.


11.I'll Let You Live

The first degree we a riot
You were making sure
My lesson's learned
I'm not ashamed but I'm trying
I've some to expect the standards you have set...
Tell me just how dangerou is second best
You've settled for less and I'm sure you'll settle again
You'll settle for less.
There's no stopping me
I'm gutting you out,
There's not stopping this...
The closer look is the further that you get.
Already stubborn skin thickens
In a valiant attempt to understand
So understand.
There's not stopping this
I'm gutting you out
There's no stopping me.
I got tired of waiting, waiting and I'm still waiting...
When the guilt subsides
The night begins.
Came as gift from a good friend
That disapproves
But understands
That you represent
And actively encourage
All of my worst habits
They all are proof
That we're both capable of the most terrible things
'Don't test me'
There's no stopping this
I'm gutting you out
I know it's not what you deserve,
Still, there's no stopping me...
I'm gutting you out

I'm gutting
There's no stopping this...