MakeDamnSure
"MakeDamnSure" is a song by American rock band Taking Back Sunday. It was released as the first single from their third album, Louder Now. It has experienced much more success than the band's other singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and Modern Rock Tracks chart. It is their most successful single to date.
MakeDamnSure is featured in Saints Row 2.
The song ranked at #52 on Rolling Stone's "The 100 Best Songs of 2006".
Music video
The music video for the song "MakeDamnSure" (directed by Marc Klasfeld) switches between scenes of the band playing in a wind tunnel and scenes of violence and destruction (such as a car crashing from a cliff, or bombs exploding in a village). The wind in the tunnel gradually increases, and when the loud chorus part repeats for the last time, it almost blows them away. As the song slows down, the violent images are replayed, but this time, they are transformed into a short scene considered to be happy, i.e. the scene of the police officers using fire hoses on protesters turns into a scene of a woman watering her plants, and the Cincinnati Red's former stadium being demolished turns into a shore view. The video ends as Adam Lazzara, who's viewed singing in profile, slowly turns into a boy, who blows on the microphone, which has turned into a dandelion, whose seeds blow away, and then starts running in an open field, as the camera pans upwards and the video fades away.
Podcasts:
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by Taking Back Sunday
MakeDamnSure
by: Taking Back SundayYou've got this new head filled up with smoke
And I got my veins all tangled
Close to the jukebox bars you frequent
The safest place to hide
A long night spent with your most obvious weakness
You start shaking at the thought
You are everything I want
'Cause you are everything I'm not
And we lay, we lay together just not
Too close, too close
(How close is close enough?)
We lay, we lay together just not
Too close, too close
I just wanna break you down so badly
Well I trip over everything you say
I just wanna break you down so badly
In the worst way
Well my inarticulate store-bought
Hangover hobby kit it talks
And it says, "You, oh, you are so cool"
It says, "The shade across the bed
You are red, violent red
You hollow out my hungry eyes
You hollow out my hungry eyes?
And we lay, we lay together just not
Too close, too close
(How close is close enough?)
We lay, we lay together just not
Too close, too close
I just wanna break you down so badly
Well I trip over everything you say
Well I just wanna break you down so badly
In the worst way
I just wanna break you down so badly
Well I trip over everything you say
I just wanna break you down so badly
In the worst way
(Worst way)
I'm gonna make damn sure
That you can't ever leave
No, you won't ever get too far from me
You won't ever get too far from me
I'll make damn sure
That you can't ever leave
No, you won't ever get too far from me
You won't ever get too far from me
You won't ever get too far from me
(Ever get too far)
You won't ever get too far
I just wanna break you down so badly
Well I trip over everything you say
Well I just wanna break you down so badly
In the worst way
(Worst way)
I'm gonna make damn sure
I just wanna break you down so badly
I just wanna break you down so badly
(Damn sure)
In the worst way