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!
(Guitar and Bass together--very quiet slide to each chord)
[Intro] EbmF#B x2
[Verse] EbmF#BEbmF#B I'm heaven sent, Don't You Dare Forget EbmF#BEbmF#BEbm I am all you've ever wanted, with all the other boys old problems F#BEbmF#B Sorry I don't, i just needed you to know EbmF#BEbmF#BDb i think in decimals and dollars, i am the cost to all your problems BbEbmF#B shelter from cold, we are ne--ver alone DbBb coordinate brain and mouth, EbmF#BDb then ask me what its like to have myself so figured out wish i knew
(now another guitar comes in picking the A and D strings of the intro chords) other wise just play intro x2)
[Verse 2] EbmF#B I hope this song starts a craze EbmF#B the kind of song that ignites the airways EbmF#BEbm the kind of song that makes people glad to be where they are F#B with you ever theyre there with EbmF#BEbmF#BEbm this is war, every line is about who i dont wanna write about anymore F#BEbmF#B hope you come down with something they cant diagnose, dont have the cure for DbBbEbmF#B holding on to your grudge, oh its so hard to have someone to love DbBb and keeping quiet is hard EbmF#BDb because you cant keep a secret if it never was a secret to start at least pretend you didnt want to get caught
(heavily distorted guitar comes in on GET slides on E string to first chord of chorus, possibly guitar doing the picking before. drums kick in)
[Chorus] F#BEbm We're Concentrating on falling apart BF# we were contenders now throwing the fights BEbmF# just wanna believe, i just wanna believe, i just wanna believe... yeah