Seven hours till the moon sleeps I lose my mind as I drive away Your cigarettes are in the back seat I cant bring myself to throw away
All of the film from the camera that took All the pictures of the images in my mind
So I'll drive a straight line When I cross the state line Out on to the ocean, in a moment I'll be gone Then you wont have to feel torn
Pass the churches full of guilted faith They send there hangovers from last night It won't do me any good to pray, cause even god knows that you were right
And I was wrong but yeah it kills me that my kid will never know me, with another man by his side
So I'll drive a straight line When I cross the state line Out on to the ocean, in a moment I'll be gone Then you wont have to feel torn
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
So I'll drive a straight line When I cross the state line Out on to the ocean, in a moment I'll be gone
So I'll drive a straight line When I cross the state line Out on to the ocean, in a moment I'll be gone
So you grew up in a town where everybody's all the same Like a city full of zombies going by the same name Saying eat this, wear that, think ya know just where it's at. When everybody's just alike, now tell me how you deal with that?
This much is true, so here's a finger let me say it
There's the right way, then there's my way There's a highway, if you don't like it you can take it So just talk away, I don't hear a word you say I'll be my way, if you don't like it you can take it
You got the ultimate song, but you're fuckin' up the words And you're fallin' from the bridge that goes straight into the verse. They're saying do this, do that, tell ya how to wear your hat If everyone was just alike, I don't think I could deal with that!
This much is true, so can you hear me as I'm saying
There's the right way, then there's my way There's a highway, if you don't like it you can take it So just talk away, I don't hear a word you say I'll be my way, if you don't like it you can take it
I don't want to, be the one who Does everything like I'm told to (4x)
There's the right way, then there's my way There's a highway, if you don't like it you can take it So just talk away, I don't hear a word you say I'll be my way, if you don't like it you can take it
Oh well remember the guy who was a football star He had it made with the ladies, but he never got far Five years past, now he's gotten kind of fat Working eight days a week at a Laundromat With his momma and his daddy breathing down his neck About everything he does so much it makes him sick So he sits home alone, with the game on TV, As the crowd goes wild he says, "That coulda been me!"
Just another day in suburbia It's a beautiful day in suburbia! Best not let it get the best of you Is it everything you thought it would be?
Remember playing games at the rich kid's home? His dad owned a bank, while his mom was alone Everyday with the mailman, the trash man, lawn guy Kid didn't look a damn thing like his dad (I knew why) He grew up got a job making eighty grand a year Had a wife and kid all the guys called a queer But his dad never knew, he was too blind to see He said "Guess it kinda ran in the family!"
Just another day in suburbia It's a beautiful day in suburbia Best not let it get the best of you Is it everything you thought it would be?
Remember the girl, down the street, with the kids That used to come outside, but she never did Cause she was trying to hide the bruises where her old man beat her Cause he hit her in the face with an old space heater (Ow!) Then he'd come home drunk and tried to force sex on her But he didn't see the fourty-four stuffed in the covers So she waited 'till he came, he lie there naked, Before she blew his head off, she told him she'd been faking All along - so long - for everything you done wrong Here's a bullet, go to hell, 'cause its where you belong!
Just another day in suburbia It's a beautiful day in suburbia Best not let it get the best of you Is it everything you thought it would be Just another day in suburbia Yeah this is how we're living in suburbia Best not let it get the best of you Is it everything you want it to be
No one understands it, no one comprehends it I Guess you had to be there, from the outside looking in So I put my Outkast record on, turn up the volume cause I'm all alone! And scream away (yeaaaah!!)
Remember the cutest couple in the world You know he was the punk and she was daddy's little girl And graduation came and she wanted him to stay But he had bigger better dreams waiting out in LA She cried and he cried as the plane flew away She never ever wanted it to end this way Two years later she reads in the news He'd gone on to be a big star but nobody knew Cause he changed up his name but his heart stayed the same Cause every song he wrote was about her he claimed But he never got to tell her cause he died that year From all of the coke, and the pills, and the beer And the whole world cried, but just or one day... Cause sooner or later..the pain goes away!
Just another day in suburbia It's a beautiful day in suburbia Best not let it get the best of you Is it everything you thought it would be? Just another day in suburbia Yeah this is how we're living in suburbia Best not let it get the best of you Is it everything you want it to be..
Partied at a house till four, came out from a closet door Makeup all over my face. We just did what people do, how was I to know that you were gonna turn around and say...
'Somethin's not right, somethin' that night'
you gave in, I gave out I put in, you put out And you screamed and I shouted Now we're both in lotsa trouble You gave in, I gave out I put in, you put out And now something' about it says We're both in lotsa trouble Both in lotsa trouble yeah yeah
No one knows about the mess we got ourselves into, I guess responsibility slapped my face Now I'll never look at you without being a part of you I know you're scared of what we gotta face
But I'll hold you tight, and be your nightlight
Cause you gave in, I gave out I put in, you put out And you screamed and I shouted Now we're both in lotsa trouble You gave in, I gave out I put in, you put out And now something' about it says We're both in lotsa trouble Both in lotsa trouble yeah yeah
She drives a black Iroc with hot pink leather Got a good butt but can't remember whether She's a good girl or she's bad Or count the sex she's had she Comes home late with grocery sacks and Brothers in his hat doin' Michael Jackson Doesn't know her dad, since he dropped her on her head And if there's one think I can say Is she takes all my breath away
She doesn't know my name She doesn't know her name Every time that I call, she can't remember at all That's the last I fall for Alicia Amnesia
She got a summer job at the mall in town Sellin' shiny clothes to the bands in town Who are trying to be so cool And they always make her drool Takes all I have to say hey When she's cleaning out the manic panic hair dye trays And I can always bet, She'll ask me if we've met If there's one thing I can say Every time she walks away
She doesn't know my name She doesn't know her name Every time that I call, she can't remember at all That's the last I fall for Alicia Amnesia
Can you please remind me how you feel. This emptiness is real. And I can't bear the thought of it Can you please remind me how to smile? I lost track after awhile. Is happiness so hard to get
Is it me or is this over? As I got sober I watched you fade away. Is it me or is this ending? As I was pretending I watched you fade away.
I didn't know that time could move so slow. When you've got nowhere to go. The silence is so deafening. Wakin' up, on the wrong side of your mind. How could I have been so blind? To see I'm losing everything.
Is it me or is this over? As I got sober I watched you fade away. Is it me or is this ending? As I was pretending. I watched you fade away.
Sooner or later we gotta stop this elevator. You go your way and I'll go mine. I'm sure that I'll be fine.
Is it me or is this over? As I got sober I watched you fade away. Is it me or is this ending? As I was pretending I watched you fade away...
Sober...cause I got sober Cause I got sober.... I watched you fade.
I walk around in circles, just like a dog with vertigo, As I go insane. The sun shines all around me, on the world, and everybody with somebody, while I'm in the rain.
'Cause it's you that can break me and keep me on my back. 'Cause it's you that can save me from falling into the black.
The streetlights flash in tempo with my heart that's poundin' although I, haven't had a heart for days. If I could just be honest, get my feelings off my chest, and on your mind I could find the way.
'Cause it's you that can break me and keep me on my back. 'Cause it's you that can save me from falling into the black. Hold me and tell me that everything's gonna be all right. And I'll tell you that everything's gonna be alright.
'Cause it's you that can break me and keep me on my back. 'Cause it's you that can save me from falling into the black. you that can break me and keep me on my back. 'Cause it's you that can save me from falling into the black. The black, (Hold me and tell me that everything's gonna be all right.) oh, fall into the black.
So you had a lot of friends, big black Benz, Rockin' like "Dokken" til the party ends. Pink champagne, can't complain, everyone's there for you. Messed up hair, messed up nose, Cocaine habit that no one knows about. Even thought the lies get told, everybody knows the truth.
Can ya get down? I don't wanna be around When you come down Get your feet back on the ground Can ya get down? You ain't acting like you're suppose to When you fall down, will it even make a sound
'Cause you're a boom batter and your wallet's getting fatter, fatter Livin' for yourself thinkin' no one else will even matter Skeezin' and you sneezing, your allergic to the normal crowd I heard you were from Cartersville (Oh my God, don't say that too loud!) So afraid that they're gonna know, that you're gonna show that you're normal Normal? (normal!) Shit I'd better fight, overdose, date a model I suppose Everything'll be alright
Can ya get down I don't wanna be around when you come down Get your feet back on the ground Can ya get down You ain't acting like you're s'posed to When you fall down Will it even make a sound?
Can you get down? I don't wanna be around When you come down Get your feet back on the ground Can ya get down You ain't acting like you're suppose to When you fall down, will it even make a sound?
Keep it down I don't wanna be around Keep it down I don't wanna be around When you come down Get your feet back on the ground. Can ya get down You ain't acting like you're suppose to (s'posed to) Will it even make a sound?
I was set up from the get-up, and I drove the wrong way home Into your eyes of blue, yeah I could barely take my mind off you So you set it, then you let it, slowly take the life from you Getting so high from the fumes, of a burned out so-called you
And I feel so far away from close to you and maybe... We could try to find a way to walk right through The plastic wall between my heart and you
You were faking, I'd mistaken, you for someone I once knew Into the ring I flew, like a wrestler falls on cue Can you show me? Please show me. why it all went down in flames Was it 'cause I made it through, and you were just too fucked up to?
And I feel so far away from close to you, and maybe... We could finally find a way to walk right through, the plastic wall between my heart and you.
Head is stinging, phone is ringing Words just burnin' right on my tongue Please put up the magazine I'm burning up like gasoline I'm all alone on the phone So baby won't you please pick up?
(Won't you please pick up?)
I was set up, from the get-up Won't you please pick up the phone?
I feel so far away from close to you, and baby All I wanted was to see you walk right through and I feel so far away from close to you and baby we can finally find a way to walk right through, the plastic wall between my heart and.. between my heart and you.
Little Jewish princess, never recognized Replaced the Star of David for the ones in your eyes So you popped a vicodine and ran away from everyone And everything you thought you knew
Hangin' by the pool with the leisure dudes Who never have a job, but they got the attitudes The clothes, and the shoes, and a disease or two, And every head turns on cue
When she flies like a ballerina babe strung up so high. Everybody have you seen her? The side no one knows, she shows on video She's a San Fernando sex star and she's fine Telephone screaming on the bathroom floor Momma tryin' to call ya since July 4 Erase the message along with the life Of everything ya knew before.
Life is pretty good with your wood grain walls Lime green carpet, and your meth lab stall Mattress full of money and five locks on the door As she falls to the floor
From tryin' to fly, like a ballerina babe Strung up so high, everybody have you seen her? The side no one knows, she screams on video She's a San Fernando sex star and she's fine
East coast transplant now in California Can ya feel the side effects of finally leaving Georgia? Nothing you can do about it, Daddy tried to warn ya Allowance cut off, blue jean cutoffs Feelin' like a cut out paper whore
When she flies like a ballerina babe Strung out so high, everybody have you seen her? The side no one knows, she screams on video She's San Fernando sex star
Where are you? Now, Where are you? Now, Where are you? San Fernando sex star
You got lost, for a while You've been trying to find a smile You got stood up, then you fell down When you needed, there was no one 'round
You loved the previews and hate the movies You scream at the screen, "Something move me!" Before you start to fade away
Give me all your fear, throw it all away And think about the good things, no matter what they say We'll take tomorrow, baby, yeah One day at a time
You just stare in space You found love but it got erased You're on the road with all the stoplights And you're too afraid to turn the wrong from right
You ate your soul and it made ya fat Starve yourself from everything else That makes you completely full
So give me all your fear, throw it all away Think about the good things, no matter what they say We'll take tomorrow, baby, yeah One day at a time
So you run, so you hide And you watched as they die They all fell, you could fall too Or you could sew your wings and try to fly right through
So give me all your fear, throw it all away Think about the good things, no matter what they say We'll take tomorrow, baby, yeah One day at a time One day at a time
As she woke up for the final injection The sickness was hard When there was no one around And it spread to her hands And it spread to her legs And they felt like the mud from the pond on the ground that she played in as a kid What she did to deserve this While her friends were at parties She was on the floor, with a mixture of blood Sweat and tears by her head That's when she said, can I be dead? Yeah I've heard that before
So as I'm writing this thank you note There's just one thing she wanted you to know Just before she had to go, she said that she liked you
Just hung the painting that we found of London I never saw the beauty of that city before As it sat in our basement next to board games and year books With a faint smell of must, dust and dog food on the floor
So as I'm writing this thank you note There's just one thing she wanted you to know Just before she had to go, she said that she liked you
Trash Day in Beverly Hills All the sad little mama's with their happy little pills They flirt with the lawn boys as they clean out the pools While the Mexican nannies take the children to school So much to be and nothing to do How did it ever end up that way? Trash day in Nashville, Tennessee No one can smell this religion but me I see it in hairstyles of young Christian men, That drink, smoke, and fuck like the world's gonna end Someday will come and we'll all just pretend That it never really happened that way Happen that way Happen that way Happen that way I can tell a lot by the way that you walk And I can hear the confessions in the way you talk And it's all the actions that give yourself away So I still don't talk, don't breathe It'll all be over soon Trash day in Atlanta, GA I can hear the sanitary truck from 2 miles away I've said everything that this town has to say Won't you bring me your waste and let me throw them away Maybe I was wrong to call your heart a spade But I wish it didn't happen that way Happen that way Happen that way Happen that way
Do you remember when we met? Liquor drinks and cigarettes All the boys were taking bets Credit cards, so in debt Bought drinks from you at the bar Poured them out behind my car So I could come back where you are And order from you again And again I'll be your open tap You'll be my favorite sin You're such a pretty melody I'm just a tattooed tragedy Oh baby we don't have to be Like the rest of them What time can we get out of here? I got some words you need to hear I really wanna make it clear I don't do this everywhere How do I make this not sound cheap? I wanna show you where I sleep Keep you there a couple weeks Make you come again And again I'll be your waste of time You'll be my happy end You're such a pretty melody I'm just another tattooed tragedy Oh baby we don't have to be Like the rest of them It's anything but hard to see I want all of you all over me There's not a single part of me That won't ever let you... You're such a pretty melody I'm just another tattooed tragedy Oh baby we don't have to be Like the rest of them It's anything but hard to see I want all of you all over me There's not a single part of me That won't ever let you go.
Her hair is like a crow's nest, she's got glitter in her eye Her smile is like a jack-o'-lantern trying not to cry She's been living, been living pretty hard Since her old man up and died a year ago
And I see her every morning while she's walking to the check She holds her head like she's got something heavy hanging 'round her neck Puts some money in her purse And hides somewhere he won't expect before she goes
Don't you think someone should take you home? Don't you think someone should take you home?
Well, she stole more than a little from her folks in Cartersville With that wrong foot in that right boot left a lot of room to fill With one foot on the platform and a lot of time to kill They shoulda' known
Don't you think someone should take you home? Don't you think someone should take you home?
Well, I haven't seen her lately, guess I just assumed the worst But I think I kinda miss her standing there with her lips pursed First thing in the morning eaning up against the church Like it's your own
Don't you think someone should take you home? Don't you think someone should take you home? Don't you think someone should take you home?
I wrote this down to make it sing just like a song A little part of me is hating where I've gone The living room disheveled, dishes piled up high Your naked silhouette contrasting in the light It's you... It's you... Pull off with guilt from a confusing kiss goodnight I drive with a cell phone burning as you cry yourself to sleep all night This parking lot is my best friend as it holds me while I stare I can see my breath, I can taste your shoulder, it's something in the air It's you... It's you... This song is just a stripped down version give or take a verse Wanna spare us all the details if it only makes things worse Oh... Oh... Oh... Ah...
