This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
So if you're lonely
You know I'm here waiting for you
I'm just a crosshair
I'm just a shot away from you
And if you leave here
You leave me broken, shattered, I lie
I'm just a crosshair
I'm just a shot, then we can die
Ah
I know I won't be leaving here with you
I say, "don't you know?"
You say you don't know
I say, "take me out"
I say, "you don't show"
Don't move, time is slow
I say, "take me out"
I say, "you don't know"
You say you don't go
I say, "take me out"
If I move, this could die
If eyes move, this could die
I want you to take me out
I know I won't be leaving here (with you)
I know I won't be leaving here
I know I won't be leaving here (with you)
I know I won't be leaving here with you
I say, "don't you know?"
You say you don't know
I say, "take me out"
If I wane, this could die
If I wait, this could die
I want you to take me out
If I move, this could die
Eyes move, this can die
Come on, take me out
I know I won't be leaving here (with you)
I know I won't be leaving here
I know I won't be leaving here (with you)
I know I won't be leaving here with you
You know I'm here waiting for you
I'm just a crosshair
I'm just a shot away from you
And if you leave here
You leave me broken, shattered, I lie
I'm just a crosshair
I'm just a shot, then we can die
Ah
I know I won't be leaving here with you
I say, "don't you know?"
You say you don't know
I say, "take me out"
I say, "you don't show"
Don't move, time is slow
I say, "take me out"
I say, "you don't know"
You say you don't go
I say, "take me out"
If I move, this could die
If eyes move, this could die
I want you to take me out
I know I won't be leaving here (with you)
I know I won't be leaving here
I know I won't be leaving here (with you)
I know I won't be leaving here with you
I say, "don't you know?"
You say you don't know
I say, "take me out"
If I wane, this could die
If I wait, this could die
I want you to take me out
If I move, this could die
Eyes move, this can die
Come on, take me out
I know I won't be leaving here (with you)
I know I won't be leaving here
I know I won't be leaving here (with you)
I know I won't be leaving here with you
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Saw them live recently- before they played it, they explained it.
'Franz Ferdinand' are named after the guy who was shot, a minor incident in Eastern Europe that lead to the outbreak of World War 1. Ferdinand and his wife were shot at the same time; the song talks about the moment between his wife being shot and him dying- he feels he might as well be dead, "Come on, take me out!", his wife's murders have left him 'broken, shattered I lie'.
A very melancholy for such a upbeat song with such a funky riff.
Bosnia is widely considered to be part of Eastern Europe. Great song, I love the historical reference.
Franz Ferdinand was the Arch Duke of Austria, was killed by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Serbian movement known as the "Black Hand" on June 28, 1914, and is considered the final straw that caused the Great War to break out.<br /> <br /> <br /> And, 'dame13', I am an American and am careful with my history and take it seriously. I also know that we primarily became involved in WW1 because the Germans tried to get Mexico to join them and attack us via the infamous "Zimmerman Note", and likely sunk the Lusitania.<br /> <br /> Your profile says that you yourself are in the United States, so how much of our own history do you know?
yeah honestly dame13, I'm from the U.S. too, and i am a history buff myself. Uhm..ignorant is a strong word. maybe misinformed but ignorant?<br /> <br /> Think before you speak my friend.
On the "Greatest Song of the Noughties"(E4) (Take Me Out came a shockingly lowly 16) Alex Kapranos stated he was 'watching a movie where two snipers were trying to kill each other. They were in hide-outs opposite each otherwaiting for the other one to make a move and this seemed like a good metaphor for the way people interect with each other, not wanting to give away their emotions and sometimes you justw ant to give away your position and say "Oh go on! Take me Out!!! Just end it I'd rather that than continue the tension". <br /> <br /> In addition the account of Franz Ferdinands death by Joachim Remak (called Sarajevo) says that the aRch-dukes last words were "It is nothing" in responce to Count Harrach asking him if he was suffering after being shot in the neck (unless he was the Black Knight from Monty Python a redundant question).
umh dame? mean much? come on, don't be a jerk! <br /> plus, that's really bias. saying "all Americans are stupid" is like saying "all dark skinned people speak Spanish." its stupid<br /> so , before you diss the U.S. by saying we're stupid, think about how stupid and ignorant you're being
It wasn't really a minor incident. He was the leader of one of the major countries of World War I. The band is named after Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. Assassinated by a student hired by a Serbian Nationalist group (The Black Hand.) And the assassin was one of six assassins hired that day to assassinate him.
Crosshair nailed it. Gawd knows where he got the energy to write so much:) It's an excellent song by an excellent band... one of my favorites, although I probably say that about a few too many bands ;) The about a guy in love but he lacks confidence. Haven't met too many of those types in my lifetime. Wow, music makes me laugh....just thinking about a college-aged man named Yasime Rahim from Tanzania who's dad was a diplomat to Russia. Yasime asked me to marry him after we had known each other (sitting around listening to music) just two weeks. I laughed thinking he was joking. He immediately left the room and didn't speak with me for a few days....finally explaining that in his country not all people date first. Then he proposed again. Talk about feeling like a schumck for saying NO. We did begin a friendship, though, and he promised not to ask me again. Sorry for the story of my life; I had just forgotten about that first proposal...
Yeah I must be from his country. :|
I see three potential interpretations running in this song.
1: Voice is of Ferdinand, talking towards his wife, in the moments between her death and his.
2: Voice is of Ferdinand, talking towards his assassin, right before being shot.
3: Voice is of a person, somewhere, who wants to be with someone, but knows they won't be, and is "broken shattered I lie" by their rejection.
As I see it, #1 or 2 is definitely intentional, and #3 is most likely partially intended. The reason I believe he's speaking to his assassin is because the words "take me out" seem to be most specifically directed towards the assassin. In this interpretation, the song takes place in the split second where Ferdinand makes eye contact with the shooter, right before being killed. Accordingly, the song is about the emotional connection between them, and Ferdinand begging to die out of sadness over the loss of his wife, by that interpretation.
Today is the 100th anniversary of Franz Ferdinand and his wife being killed, thus starting WW1, so this is the song of the day I suppose.
this song makes me wanna dance! the riff is jus so damn catchy!
Excellent song.
Great song then...nice little history lesson. What of the video? Did it contain any imagery to suggest its meaning? I remember seeing a lot of old school imagery like bareknuckle boxers from near the start of the last century. I really like the switch of guitar play about a quarter of the way through. It's a sound I haven't heard before, very catchy and unusual.
It is quite sad if you focus on the lyrics... I also like the bit when the beat slows down, just before the main riff comes in.
Oh, god, not the MTV thing again. I really don't see what the problem is; sure, all the shows suck, but what does that have to do with the videos they play? And if it wasn't on MTV, where else would you see it? VH1 only plays "adult-alternative". All the other music videos are owned by MTV. Launch is nice, but I like to watch videos before they get ran through the grain-o-filter. Near as I can tell, the only reason that a band would stay permanently underground is that NO ONE WANTS TO LISTEN TO THEM. Getting accepted into mainstream is a reflection that it at least sounds good, even if people don't fully appreciate what they're listening to. Unless you make it a point to listen to things that no one else could enjoy, be prepared to hear more of your favorite bands on the radio, or even(GASP!) MTV. I mean, you never hear Juggaloes complain about ICP selling out.
what I mean about the mtv thing is, now all the teenybopper idiots might like this band. They're a very good band, one of my favourites... it's just that it's kind of weird to think if teenyboppers/the mtv generation would really like this band.