Second single from their debut album Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos explained: “The idea came out of stuff we’d been talking about as a band – we all like the photo montage style that you get from the dada artists who would literally cut up photographs and make new images with the pieces. You get this strange, disjointed look where limbs and heads aren’t the same proportions. So you get a very jarring effect.”
“It’s kind of two dimensional in a three dimensional style if that makes any sense. It’s a montage of images; ourselves, pictures and things taken from other places and put together in a strange, abstract way. That’s what gives the video that strange, jerky style.”
Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out – Video and Lyrics
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
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 know
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 can die
If I wane, this can die
I want you to take me out
If I move, this could die
If eyes move, this could die
Come on, take me out
I know I won’t be leaving here
I know I won’t be leaving here
I know I won’t be leaving here
I know I won’t be leaving here with you