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!
The kind you'd find on someone that could save C If they don't put me away
It'll be a miracle Am Do you believe you're missing out
That everything good is happening somewhere else C But with nobody in your bed
The night is hard to get through
AmC And I will die all alone AmC And when I arrive I won't know anyone
Am Well Jesus Christ I'm alone again
So what did you do those three days you were dead C Because this problem's gonna last
More than the weekend Am Well Jesus Christ I'm not scared to die
I'm a little bit scared of what comes after C Do I get the gold chariot
Do I float through the ceiling
AmC Do I divide and fall apart AmC Cause my bright is too slight to hold back all my dark AmC This ship went down in sight of land AmC And at the gates does Thomas ask to see my hands
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F I know you'll come in the night like a thief Am But I've had some time alone to hone my lying technique F I know you think that I'm someone you can trust Am But I'm scared I'll get scared and I swear I'll try to nail you back up F So do you think that we could work out a sign Am So I'll know it's you and that it's over so I won't even try F I know you'll come for the people like me Am But we all got wood and nails GF Turned into a hate factory Am But we all got wood and nails GF Turned into a hate factory Am we all got wood and nails GF Turned into a hate factory Am Yeah we all got wood and nails GF And we sleep inside of this machine