Did you ever get the feeling
That there's something come undone
An unreeling in the seaming, the stitching gone
So you rip a little harder 'til that rip becomes a run
Feel the fabric of existence – come unspun
Hey there we don't care, could be standing way out where
You're naked and freezing 'til you run
Freeze or run
But don't stop feeling audacious
There's no one to save us
So just carry on
And don't go blaming the neighbours
You know they're the same as us
We should just get on
Get on
With a plastic carrier bag in each hand
The rain fell low so you were standing
Under the holly tree with exasperated feelings and
Hey ho you don't know
Is it a joke? No, I said no!
I'm serious, more serious than I've ever been
I've ever been
So don't stop feeling audacious
There's no one to save us
So just carry on
And don't go blaming the neighbours
You know they're the same as us
We should just get on
Get on
Did you ever get the feeling
That your world has come undone
No revealing of a reason to carry on
When hey there... it's there
Waiting just in there
Ready any time to come along
Along
So don't stop feeling audacious
The unknown and the famous
They say just carry on
And no there's just us to save us
Forget any favours
We should just get on
Get on with it
Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 2002. The band's original line-up was composed of Alex Kapranos (lead vocals, lead guitar, keyboards), Nick McCarthy (rhythm guitar, keyboards, vocals), Bob Hardy (bass guitar, percussion) and Paul Thomson (drums, percussion, backing vocals). Julian Corrie (keyboards, lead guitar, backing vocals) and Dino Bardot (rhythm guitar, backing vocals) joined the band in 2017 after McCarthy left during the previous year, and Audrey Tait (drums, percussion) joined the band after Thomson left in 2021. The band is one of the more popular post-punk revival bands, garnering multiple UK top 20 hits. They have been nominated for several Grammy Awards and have received two Brit Awards—winning one for Best British Group—as well as one NME Award.
The band's first single, "Darts of Pleasure", just missed out on the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 44. Their second single, "Take Me Out", proved their big commercial breakthrough, peaking at number three. "Take Me Out" charted in several other countries and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal; it became the band's signature song. Their self-titled debut studio album won the 2004 Mercury Prize and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Album.
In 2005, the band released their second studio album, You Could Have It So Much Better, produced by Rich Costey. It peaked within the top-ten in multiple countries and earned Grammy-nominations for Best Alternative Album and for one of the singles, "Do You Want To". The band's third studio album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, was released in January 2009; by then the band had shifted from a post-punk-focused sound to a more dance-oriented sound. A remix album of Tonight, titled Blood, was released in July 2009.
Four years after the release of Tonight, the band released their fourth studio album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action, in August 2013. In 2015, Franz Ferdinand and American rock band Sparks formed the supergroup FFS and released a one-off self-titled album in June 2015. Following the departure of McCarthy, the band released their fifth studio album, Always Ascending, in February 2018.
