Notes From The Past

Taking Back Sunday Notes From The Past Lyrics
1.This Photograph Is Proof

Lyricist:Adam Burbank Lazzara, Frederick Pau Mascherino, Mark
O'connell, Ed Reyes, Matthew A Rubano

Well, I'll wait till you listen
I won't say a word to follow your instincts
Which just never worked for me
Oh, you're silent but strong
Yeah, I'm playing that card
And you're noticing nothing again

Now I'm lying on the table with everything you said
Keep that in mind, the way that it felt
When the most I could do was to just blame myself
(Feel it out for once and feel nothing like everyone else)
When the most I could do was to just blame myself

And I know you know everything
I know you didn't mean it
I know you didn't mean it

I know you know everything
(Drop everything)
(Start it all over)
I know you didn't mean it
(Remember more than you'd like to forget)
I know you didn't mean it

So, we're talking forever and you almost feel better
But, better's no excuse for tonight
You see, it's never bad enough to just leave or give up
But, it's never good enough to feel right

Now I'm lying on the table with everything you said
It will all catch up eventually
Well, it caught up and honestly
The weight of my decisions were impossible to hold
But they were never yours, they were never yours
(They were never yours)

Well, I know you know everything
I know you didn't mean it
I know you didn't mean it

I know you know everything
(Drop everything)
(Start it all over)
I know you didn't mean it
(Remember more than you'd like to forget)
I know you didn't mean it

Drop everything
Start it all over
Remember more than you'd like to forget

Drop everything
Start it all over
Remember more than you'd like to forget

Would you like to forget?
Would you like to forget?
Drop everything, start it all over
Well, drop everything, start it all over
(Would you like to forget)
Drop everything, start it all over
Start it all

Well, I know you know everything
I know you didn't mean it
I know you didn't mean it

I know you know everything
(Drop everything)
(Start it all over)
I know you didn't mean it
(Remember more than you'd like to forget)
I know you didn't mean it

I know you know
I know you know

I know you know
(Drop everything)
(Start it all over)
I know you know
(Remember more than you'd like to forget)
You know, you know, you know


2.You Know How I Do

So sick, so sick of being tired
And oh so tired of being sick
We're both such magnifacent liars
So crush me baby, I'm all yours

So obviously desperate
So desperatly obvious
I'll give in one more time and feed you

We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore
We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore
We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore
We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore

So sick, so sick of being tired
And oh so tired of being sick
Willing and ready to prove the worst
Of everything you said about

So obviously desperate
So desperatly obvious
So good at setting bad examples
Listen, chic, I've had all I can handle

We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore
We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore
We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore
We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore

Think of all the fun you had
The finest line divides a night well spent from a waste of time
And think of all the days you spent
Alone with just your TV set and I, well I can barely smile

We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore
We won't stand for
We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore
We won't stand for, let's go

He's smoked out in the back of the van
Says he's held up with holding on and on and on and on and on
He's smoked out in the back of the van
Says he's held up with holding on and on and on and on and on


3.Ghost Man On Third

Lyricist:Shaun Cooper, Adam Burbank Lazzara, John Thomas Nolan, Mark
O'connell, Edward Reyes

Jinx me something crazy, thinking if it's three
Then I'm as smooth as the skin that rolls across the small of
your back
It's too bad its not my style if you need me
I'm out, and on the parkway patient and waiting for

Headlights dressed in a fashion that's fitting
To the inconsistency of my moods

It's times like these when silence means everything
No one is to know about this
It's times like these when silence means everything
No one is to know about

It's a campaign of distraction
And revisionist history

It's a shame I doubt they'd notice
It's a shame, I doubt they even care
No one is to know about this

It's a shame I doubt they'd notice
It's a shame, I doubt they even care
Don't let me down

But whatever I have been getting myself into
Lately has been slicing inches from my waist
It's my fist vs. the bottle
And that's how bad could this hurt

Against I won't feel a thing, I tell you all about
It's just not workin' out, not workin' out

It's a campaign of distraction
And revisionist history

It's a shame, I doubt they'd notice
It's a shame, I doubt they even care
No one is to know about this

It's a shame, I doubt they'd notice
It's a shame, I doubt they even care
No one is to know about this
Don't let me down


This is what living like this does
This is what living like this does
This is what living like this does
This is what living like this does

This is what living like this does
This is what living like this does
This is what living like this does
This is what living like this does
This is what living like this does


4.You're So Last Summer

Lyricist:Shaun Cooper, Adam Burbank Lazzara, John Thomas Nolan, Mark
O'connell, Edward Reyes

She said, 'Don't
Don't let it go to your head
Boys like you are a dime a dozen
Boys like you are a dime a dozen'

She said, 'You're a touch overrated
You're a lush and I hate it
But these grass stains on my knees
They won't mean a thing'

And all I need to know
Is that I'm something you'll be missing

Maybe I should hate you for this
Never really did ever quite get that far
Maybe I should hate you for this
Never really did ever quite get that

I would never lie to you
Unless I had to, I'll do what I got to
Unless I had to, I'll do what I got to

The truth is you could slit my throat
And with my one last gasping breath
I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt

And all I need to know
Is that I'm something you'll be missing

Maybe I should hate you for this
Never really did ever quite get that far
Maybe I should hate you for this
Never really did ever quite get that

'Cause I'm a wishful thinker with the worst intentions
This'll be the last chance you get to drop my name
'Cause I'm a wishful thinker with the worst intentions
This'll be the last chance you get to drop my name

If I'm just bad news, then you're a liar
If I'm just bad news, then you're a liar
If I'm just bad news, then you're a liar
If I'm just bad news, then you're a liar

If I'm just bad news, then you're a liar
If I'm just bad news, then you're a liar
If I'm just bad news, then you're a liar
If I'm just bad news, then you're a liar

Maybe I should hate you for this
(If only you knew half as much as you pretend to)
Maybe I should hate you for this
(If only you knew half as much as you pretend to)


5.Twenty-Twenty Surgery (Single)

We are living the worse like rat now (somehow)*
Could you pose a threat
The focus is melted
Greed is never enough (Greed is never enough)
The view from this sides so much..
The view from this sides so much..
The view from this sides so much..

Better I see more behind you
Said don't stop me now, don't stop him now
Not till you feel bigger then better
Then cheater, then bitter, than cheap
Well its not the quantity that bothers me
(And its not the quantity that bothers me)
And its not the quality that bothers me

It's the means, twenty twenty surgery
Twenty twenty surgery
Twenty twenty surgery
For cheap, well I bet you think you're leaving
Well twenty-twenty surgery
Well twenty-twenty surgery
For cheap, well I bet you think you're leaving
Well I bet you think you're leaving
Don't you know

Well all young children listen
'Cause they've got so much to learn (Turn it in, turn it in)
We'll get you home in time
To make the rent should be for free for being me

Well it's not the quantity that bothers me
(It's not the quantity that bothers me)
It's not the quality that bothers me

It's the means, twenty twenty surgery
Twenty twenty surgery
For cheap, well I bet you think you're leaving
Twenty twenty surgery
Twenty twenty surgery
For cheap, and I bet you think you're leaving
Well I bet you think you're leaving
Don't you know, Don't you know, Don't you know

I don't, I don't need you like you think
I do, I don't, I don't need you like you think
I do, I don't, I don't need you like you think (I bet you're
leaving soon)
I do, I don't, you don't well come g-g-get it all
I don't, I don't need you like you think
I do, I don't, I don't need you like you think
I do, I don't, I don't need you like you think
I do, I don't, I don't you don't g-g-get it all

Twenty twenty surgery
Twenty twenty surgery
For cheap, and I bet you think you're leaving
Twenty twenty surgery
Twenty twenty surgery
For cheap, and I bet you think you're leaving
For cheap, and I bet you think you're leaving

You're so sensitive
I am, I am a machine
You're so sensitive
I am, I am a machine
You're so sensitive
I am, I am a machine
You're so sensitive
I am, I am a machine

Well I am a machine.


6.The Ballad Of Sal Villanueva

Lyricist:Cooper Shaun , Lazzara Adam Burbank , Nolan John Thomas ,
O'connell Mark, Reyes Edward

It's not that I don't trust you
Well, I just know what you've been up to
And while this dial tone is agreein'
With everything I've had in mind
And you've got your high as a kite tricks in the bag

So as his eyes move past your shoulders
And the shades start movin' in the
Same direction don't worry I
Well, I won't say a thing

And you can't blame a girl
(You can't blame a girl for)
For stickin' to what she knows
(Stickin' to what she knows)

I hope he takes his time and I
Hope he keeps your eyes closed tight and
I hope that when he leaves you still
Can smell him on your sheets 'cause I can, I can

I hope he takes his time and I
Hope he keeps your eyes closed tight and
I hope that when he leaves you still
Can smell him on your sheets 'cause I can, I can

If I could get to sleep then
I guess, you could stop pretendin'
'Cause if I didn't think you loved it
Well, then I wouldn't play along and

You've got your high as a
(You've got your high as a)
Kite tricks in the bag
(Kite tricks in the bag)

I hope he takes his time and I
Hope he keeps your eyes closed tight and
I hope that when he leaves you still
Can smell him on your sheets 'cause I can, I can

I hope he takes his time and I
Hope he keeps your eyes closed tight and
I hope that when he leaves you still
Can smell him on your sheets 'cause I can, I can

You're down for sellin' me out while I play dumb
It's cool 'cause I let you, thought I'd never catch you
You say, 'We're only friends, yeah, real good friends'
I bet, I bet

You're down for sellin' me out while I play dumb
It's cool 'cause I let you, thought I'd never catch you
You say, 'We're only friends, yeah, real good friends'
I bet, I bet

You're down for sellin' me out while I play dumb
It's cool 'cause I let you, thought I'd never catch you
You say, 'We're only friends, yeah, real good friends'
I bet, I bet

Forget your legs around my hips
Forget your hands pressed on my back
Forget the letters that I kept
This is another I won't send

Forget your lips, your eyes, your thighs
Forget our one last kiss goodnight
Forget me staking out your house
That's right, I've got you figured out

Forget your legs around my hips
Forget your hands pressed on my back
Forget the letters that I kept
This is another I won't send


7.A Decade Under The Influence

Lyricist:Adam Lazzara, Fred Mascherino, Mark O'connell, Ed Reyes, Matt
Rubano

Well, sad, small, sweet, so delicate
You used to be this dying breed
(Well, I've got a bad feeling about this
I've got a bad feeling about this)

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

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

Well, sad, small, sure and porcelain
You're skin and bones, I'm a nervous wreck when it comes to this
(Well, I've got a bad feeling about this
I've got a bad feeling about this)

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

Who's to say you'll have to go? Well, say you'll have to go
(I could go all night, 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?)
Well, 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 will do tonight
(Anyone)
Anyone will do tonight
(Anyone)
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

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

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

I got a bad feeling about this, I got a bad feeling about this
(To hell with you and all your friends)
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
(To hell with you and all your friends)
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, I got a bad feeling about this
(I am you, I am, you, I am)
I got a bad feeling about this, I got a bad feeling about this
(You, I am, you, I am)

Well, I got it bad, well, I got it bad
Well, I got it bad, well, I got it bad
Well, I got it bad, well, I got it bad


8.Number Five With A Bullet

Lyricist:Adam Lazzara, Fred Mascherino, Mark O'connell, Ed Reyes, Matt
Rubano

We're gonna die like this, you know
Miserable and old
Really gotta hand it to you
Really gotta hand it to you

Are you positive?
Absolutely sure?
Well just get dressed, don't do this
Just get dressed, don't do this

You spent the night lit and listening to Miles Davis
You said that makes you want to fall in love
Or be smart enough to keep your distance
You can't decide, you can't decide

We're gonna die like this, you know
Miserable and old
Really gotta hand it to you
Really gotta hand it to you

Well just so you know
(Are you positive?)
When we get home
(Absolutely sure)
We're through
(Just get dressed, don't do this)
We're through
(Just get dressed, don't do this)

It's a long way back south and to where I belong
Oh yeah you've been there once or twice and you still don't like
it
I say, 'You just never gave it a chance'
Well give me a chance, give me a chance

Besides, did you ever stop to think
If we could keep this up, living like thieves?
But you can't decide, you can't decide
No you can't decide, well you can't decide

We're gonna die like this, you know
Miserable and old
Really gotta hand it to you
Really gotta hand it to you

Well just so you know
(Are you positive?)
When we get home
(Absolutely sure)
We're through
(Just get dressed, don't do this)
We're through
(Just get dressed, don't do this)

Are you positive?
Absolutely sure?
Are you positive?

We're gonna die like this, you know
Miserable and old
Really gotta hand it to you
Really gotta hand it to you

Well just so you know
(We're gonna die like this, you know)
When we get home
(Miserable and old)
We're through
(Really gotta hand it to you)
We're through
(Really gotta hand it to you)

Just so you know
(Are you positive?)
When we get home
(Absolutely sure)
We're through
(Just get dressed, don't do this)
We're through
(Just get dressed, don't do this)

Well just so you know
When we get home
We're through
Well just so you know
When we get home
We're through


9.One-Eighty By Summer

Come on just say it,
You need me like a bad habit,
One that gives you the interest of indepth and love.
Come on just say it (Are you afraid to),
You need me like a bad habit (Say what you want to, tell me you
want to),
One that gives you the interest of indepth and love (Are you
afraid to say what you want to, tell me you want to).

Well I hold my tongue use it to assess,
The damage from way back when it mattered,
But nothing seems important anymore,
We're just protecting ourselves from our self,
And I don't think I'll ever come back down (I don't think I'll
ever come back down),
I don't think I'll ever come back down (I don't think I'll ever
come back down),
I don't think I'll ever come back down (I don't think I'll ever
come back),
I don't think I'll ever come back

Are you ashamed to say what you want to tell me you want to.
Are you ashamed to say what you want to tell me you want to.
(Come on just say it) Are you ashamed to (Come on just say it)
say what you want to tell me you want to.
(Come on just say it) Are you ashamed to (Come on just say it)
say what you want to tell me you want to.

I'm making the difference,
It just seems pointless,
Well I'll be obvious,
That's got out of focus,
Why can't you just be happy,
Why can't you just be happy.
And I don't think I'll ever come back down (I don't think I'll
ever come back down),
I don't think I'll ever come back down (I don't think I'll ever
come back down),
I don't think I'll ever come back down (I don't think I'll ever
come back),
I don't think I'll ever come back...

(Just come back {over and over, about 15 times})
Just come on just say it,
Come on just say it,
Well I'll just say it,
I'll just say it,
I need you defenseless, dependent and alone.
(Just come back {over and over, about 9 times})
She says live up to your first impression,
Well my best side was your worst invention,
In case you live without the intention,
In case you live without the intention.
(Just come back {over and over, about 8 times})
She says live up to your first impression,
Well my best side was your worst invention,
In case you live without the intention,
In case you live without the intention.

She says live up to your first impression (Come on, just say
it),
Well my best side was your worst invention (Come on, just say
it),
Why cant you live without the intention (I need you defenseless,
dependent),
Why can't you love without the intention (alone).
She says live up to your first impression (I just say it),
Well my best side was your worst invention (I just say it),
Why cant you live without the intention (I need you defenseless,
dependent),
Why can't you love without the intention (Alone),
Why can't you love (Defenseless, dependent),
Why cant you love (Defenseless, dependent),
Why can't you lovewithoutlovewithout (Defenseless, dependent,
defenseless, dependent),
Why can't you love (Defenseless, dependent),
Why can't you love (Defenseless, dependent),
Why can't you lovewithoutlovewithout (Defenseless, dependent,
defenseless, dependent).