The Novelists

Chapter 11 // November 2013 // Take Back // They Will Follow

Joel Ackerson – vocals, guitars, Rhodes, and drums
Eric Andersen – vocals, piano, and Rhodes
Megan Slankard – vocals and guitars
Zack Teran – vocals, electric bass, synthesizers, and drum programing

“Take Back” and “They Will Follow”

Produced by The Novelists // “Take Back” was engineered by Michael Cross at Ex’pression College For Digital Arts, and Joel Ackerson at True Story Records // Additional Engineering by Megan Slankard // “They Will Follow” was engineered by Joel Ackerson at True Story Records // Additional Engineering by Zack Teran // “Take Back” and “They Will Follow” were mixed by David Peters.

Guest musician on “Take Back”

Kyle Caprista – Drums

“Take Back” ©℗ 2013 Joel Ackerson

“They Will Follow” ©℗ 2013 Joel Ackerson and Eric Andersen

 

LYRICS

TAKE BACK (Ackerson)

 

Don’t think I didn’t see you standing there, like every other guy in here

Just because I didn’t stop and stare

Don’t think that I don’t love the way you smell, just because you couldn’t tell

How I chose to show you that I care

 

You see, the temperature is rising and our bodies are reacting

So we tell ourselves lies, the way we do when we’re attracted

Like nothing’s more important than the moment that we’re in

But the moment will be gone for us, if that’s the way we spend it

 

I don’t wanna be with you for just one night                                (It’s just one night)

I won’t patronize and tell you that it just isn’t right                        (It feels so right)

Cause there’s another explanation for the way that I act   (I want you)

I don’t wanna be something that you’ll wanna take back

 

I know you’ve had a little alcohol, your inhibitions set to fall

And you’re telling me you like the way I sing

And though I’d love to take the compliment, I know it wasn’t what you meant

Not to say it doesn’t mean a thing

 

Oh, to make it with an angel who is running from her demons

Just to join them in the morning when we wake up from this dream and see

Nothing more between us and the moment we were in

Then a, “how are you… good morning… I hope I never see you again”

 

I don’t wanna be with you for just one night                                (It’s just one night)

Probably think that I don’t like you if I put up a fight                    (Please don’t fight)

But there’s another explanation for the way that I act       (I want you)

I don’t wanna be something that you’ll wanna take back

 

Please listen carefully                                                                            (Say my name)

So I know that you’re hearing me                                                            (‘Cause I’ll be)

Cause I told you the truth, that I wanted to know you                   (Famous)

If you could just trust me to show you                                        (Someday)

 

All that I’m saying is wait and see, try the possibilities

Everything is open to us now…

 

And I’m asking for your number cause I really wanna use it

And I hope you’ll take a chance on me, but either way you choose

It will be better for the both of us to stop and look ahead

Than to take a shot at permanence and spend it in a temporary bed

 

I don’t wanna be with you for just one night                                (It’s just one night)

Rather wait so I can have another day by your side                     (By my side)

Maybe then will start to see this as the love that we lack (I want you)

And then I’ll never be something that you’ll wanna take…

I never wanna be something that you’ll wanna take…                   (You)

I don’t wanna be something… that you’ll wanna take back           (You)

 

 

 

 

 

THEY WILL FOLLOW (Ackerson)

 

I knew a man, he worked hard everyday

Making money for a family he never got to see

He lived for them, the way that he was told

And wondered why it troubled him to think of growing old

 

Searching for answers                   (You better start loving the life you live)

Looking for love                               (To get more outta the times they told you)

 

Follow your dreams (‘Cause they’re never gonna tell you that it’s)

Harder than it seems           (Or tell you how it’s all about)

Taking the lead

Take the lead…   and they will follow you

 

I knew a girl, who spent her life alone

Trying to possess a thing that she could never own

She prayed for him to see him do the same

And never understood why it was she who felt ashamed

 

Searching for answers                   (You better start loving the life you live)

Looking for love                               (To get more outta the times they told you)

 

Follow your dreams (‘Cause they’re never gonna tell you that it’s)

Harder than it seems           (Or tell you how it’s all about)

Taking the lead

Take the lead…   and they will follow you

 

They will follow you, they will follow you

 

Follow your dreams (‘Cause they’re never gonna tell you that it’s)

Harder than it seems           (Or tell you how it’s all about)

Taking the lead

Take the lead…   and they will follow you

 

Follow your dreams (‘Cause they’re never gonna tell you that it’s)

Harder than it seems           (Or tell you how it’s all about)

Taking the lead

Take the lead…   and they will follow you

 

They will follow you, they will follow you

They will follow you, they will follow…