Taking Back Sunday's Tell All Your Friends is a great album to listen to while going through a bad relationship (or if you just want to listen to a great album). The theme of a dilapidated relationship occurs throughout with each song lending its' own interpretation to it, which is great since everyone has their own interpretations of the path their relationship is on. After my friend gave this album to me, my initial reaction to it was, 'This must be an acquired taste.' I didn't particularly have strong feelings towards it, due to the fact that I honestly couldn't hear any words. However, I kept listening and I'm glad I did. I found that the more I listened, the more I could hear. This lead to intense drumming on the steering wheel, screaming at the top of my lungs with the window down, and jumping around my room letting the music determine where I ended up. Listening to this album let me find the beauty in lyrics hidden within emotional vocals that kept building with each song. Every song has a buildup. Every song has a message. Every song in this album has beauty within, all you have to do is listen.
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends Album Lyrics; 1. You Know How I Do Lyrics: 2. Bike Scene Lyrics: 3. Cute Without The E (Cut From The Team) Lyrics: 4. There's No 'I' In Team Lyrics: 5. Great Romances Of The 20th Century Lyrics: 6. Ghost Man On Third Lyrics: 7. Timberwolves At New Jersey Lyrics: 8. The Blue Channel Lyrics: 9. Listen to Tell All Your Friends on Spotify. Taking Back Sunday Album 2002 10 songs. Taking Back Sunday Lyrics. Album: 'Tell All Your Friends' (2002) You Know How I Do. Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team) There's No 'I' In Team.
Here's a breakdown of the album:
1. You Know How I Do.
It starts out with uplifting beats and lyrics of someone who states that they are, 'So sick so sick of being tired and also tired of being sick' as well as being 'Such bad compulsive liars.' They go on to say how they want a change in that they 'won't stand for hazy eyes anymore.' The relationship has been getting too obscured for them They started out with rose colored eyes, but now they are realizing how obscured their vision has been. This song definitely sets the theme for the rest of the album and introduces the listener to how the band builds up something throughout their songs culminating in a wonderful vocal climax at the end of each song.
2. Bike Scene.
The lyrics 'I want to hate you so bad but I can't stop this anymore than you can' shows that the relationship is starting to go downhill. He wants to hate her but can't bring himself to because he still loves her while also recognizing that she is stuck in the same situation as well.
3. Cute Without the ‘E' (Cut From the Team).
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This is where we see their downfall. He acknowledges that she has power over him and gives her a choice of either having his 'finger on the trigger' or him 'face down across the floor. With descriptions of her 'having her gun to his head' as part of the refrain, this power is clearly evident. He goes onto think about his regrets regardless of what she had done to him in the past. Duel vocals come in to signify how the mind works suggesting that he constantly wrote about her with her never loving him, along with wondering why he can't love anyone else. The song ends with him stating how everything was her fault while the duel vocals appear again to show how destructive she is and how desperately he wants to keep her on a pedestal despite this.
4.There's No ‘I' in Team.
His mind gets to him when he starts to think of them as best friends. Thinking of her 'starting fist fights versus fences' and acknowledging that he learned about breaking hearts from her leads to a breakdown. This is evident in the strong vocals which signify a mind not being able to handle things anymore. His best friend is so toxic to him that they deserve to be dead to him.
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5. Great Romances of the 20th Century.
This song seems to be a lot more upbeat than the other ones possibly because it shows him realizing what the relationship is to him. That clarity can be refreshing. He wonders if he isn't on her mind then what's the point in remaining with her.
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6. Ghost Man on Third.
The vocals in this song are haunting as he continues to realize her influence on him. He compares it to him punching a bottle and how it hurts him. He doesn't want her to bring him down anymore and recognizes how devastating she is while screaming, 'This is what living like this does!'
7. Timberwolves at New Jersey.
He rips her words apart when he tells her that they are 'worse than teenage poetry.' He wants her to admit that she was wrong. Yet, he got what he wanted out of her. He doesn't want to think of her again because she only makes things worse.
8. The Blue Channel.
He finds out that she has been keeping secrets from him. She's been sleeping with other guys. He wants to leave her.
9. You're So Last Summer.
This is where her perspective is first shown. She doesn't want their relationship to go to his head because she can get another guy like him easily. He wonders if he's good enough to miss and it is clear how much he loves her when he says, 'As you could slit my throat and with my one last gasping breath I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt.' He wonders if he should hate her for their relationship. He also calls himself a wishful thinker with the worst intentions and she's been lying to him if she considers him bad news since 'boys like him are a dime-a-dozen.'
- Head Club.
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9. You're So Last Summer.
This is where her perspective is first shown. She doesn't want their relationship to go to his head because she can get another guy like him easily. He wonders if he's good enough to miss and it is clear how much he loves her when he says, 'As you could slit my throat and with my one last gasping breath I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt.' He wonders if he should hate her for their relationship. He also calls himself a wishful thinker with the worst intentions and she's been lying to him if she considers him bad news since 'boys like him are a dime-a-dozen.'
- Head Club.
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Their relationship culminates with this song. He recognizes that they are getting distant and he never meant it to be the way it is for them. The signs are evident to him. He wants to blame her and is sick of writing every song about her. Finally done, he leaves her.
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I highly suggest giving this album a listen. And then another. And then more, simply because there's so much to it. Though it may not seem like your type of music at first, trust me in saying that it's an acquired taste that I am glad I acquired.
