A finales de la década de los 90, los jóvenes Jesse Lacey, Garrett Tierney y Brian Lane comenzaban en el mundo de la música con la banda The Rookie Lot, una banda de post-hardcore de la zona de Long Island junto a Brandon Reilly, guitarrista también de bandas como The Movielife y Nightmare of You. Tras la desintegración de esta banda, Lacey se enrola en Taking Back Sunday, otra banda de post-hardcore también de la escena de Long Island. Graba con ellos su primer material no oficial
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
CFmaj7 We sent out the SOS call CFmaj7 It was a quater past four C In the morning Fmaj7AmAm7 When the storm broke our second anchor line CFmaj7 Four months at sea CFmaj7 Four months of calm seas CFmaj7 Only to be pounded in the shallows AmAm7 Off of the tip of Montauk Point
CFmaj7 They call them rogues CFmaj7 They travel fast and alone CFmaj7 One hundred foot faces AmAm7 Of God's good ocean gone wrong CFmaj7 What they call love is a risk CFmaj7 Cause you will always get hit C Out of nowhere Fmaj7AmAm7 By some wave and end up on your own
Chorus
FC The hole in the hull defied the crews attempts AmAm7 To bail us out FC And flooded the engines and radio AmAm7 And half buried bow
Verse
CFmaj7 Your tongue is a rudder CFmaj7 It steers the whole ship CFmaj7 Sends your words past your lips AmAm7 Or keeps them safe behind your teeth CFmaj7 But the wrong words will strand you CFmaj7 Come off course while you sleep CFmaj7 Sweep your boat out to sea AmAm7 Or dashed it to bits on the reef
CFmaj7 The vessel groans CFmaj7 The ocean pressures its frame CFmaj7 Off the port I see the lighthouse AmAm7 Through the sleet and the rain CFmaj7 And I wish for one more day CFmaj7 To give my love and repay debts CFmaj7 But the morning finds our bodies AmAm7 Washed up thirty miles west
Chorus
FC They say that the captain Am Stays fast with the ship Am7 Through still and storm FC But this ain't the Dakota Am And the water is cold Am7 We won't have to fight for long
Ending
C This is the end
This story's old
But it goes on and on Fmaj7 Until we disappear
Calm me and let me taste
The salt that you breathed C While you were underneath
I am the one who haunts your dreams Fmaj7 Of mountains sunk below the sea
I spoke the words but never Am Gave a thought to what they all could mean
I know that this is what you want Am7 A funeral keeps both of us apart
You know that you are not alone C Need you like water in my lungs