1. Giving Up On Love
2. Summer Wind Was Always Our Song
3. I.O.U. One Galaxy
4. Bad Case Of Broken Heart
5. Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left,
Right, B, A, Start
6. Road Signs And Rock Songs
7. If You Really Want To Hear About It...
8. Fast Times At Drop-Out High
9. Song For A Mix Tape
10. You Need A Hug
11. How I Spent My Summer Vacation
12. Teenage Riot
13. Song # 13
14. Hello And Goodbye
Giving Up On Love
these past few weeks I've been confused sometimes
I wonder if I'm better off alone. you fall in love then break your
heart. you fall in love again its never ending. I used to have
this friend who took his fiancé to see billy idol a couple weeks
before their wedding day. the chick got backstage and left my friend
outside. next day he called from a hotel asking for a ride.
I guess I'm giving up on love cause it really kind of sucks uninspired
and growing tired why am I always so attracted to drama? so here
I am grown up at 23 will someone tell me what it takes to be happy?
I play in my band and write a lot of songs about relationships and how
mine went wrong. maybe I'll meet that special girl along the way
then she'll break my heart and leave me crying.
Summer Wind Was Always Our Song
these break-up songs make sense again and I really
wish they didn't. sinatra's singing summer wind and I'm thinking
of the night we met. just one last time can I hear you say?
"you're my little boy I never want you to go away" where are you?
please believe in me. I'm not hanging up the phone 'til I hear you
say, "I love you. I need you near." just give me one last chance
and I'll never let you down again. oh and what I wouldn't give just
to kiss your lips again to hold your hand next to my heart and wake up
with you in our apartment. just one last time can I call you my sweetheart?
my best friend why do all good things come to an end.
I.O.U. One Galaxy
stars are out tonight and you're the brightest
one shining in my sky. it's like every wish I ever made came true.
the day I woke up lying next to you. will you be my best friend if
I offer you my heart? cause it's already yours. we could hang
out every night and watch the sun go down. as long as we could watch
it rise again. gave me a valentine. it's these little things
that stand the test of time. I've saved the tickets from the shows
that we've been to. and a thousand other memories of you. gave
you this i.o.u. today. it said good for one galaxy. once I
build my rocket to the stars. we'll fly away just you and me.
Bad Case Of Broken Heart
today I'm missing something in this small new england
town. here's to you my best friend. just wanted to say that
I miss having you around. I'm staring at your picture and dreaming
that I could hold your hand. we'd walk down to the ocean and I would
write your name in the sand. they say sometimes you need some time
apart but I've got a bad case of broken heart. and you're the only
one who's got the cure. and I can't live another day without seeing
you smile. 2000 miles between us and I guess that I'm the one to
blame. relationships and heartaches, these two things are one and
the same. the radio plays a love song. I smash my fist right
through the dial. here's to the broken hearted. a generation
born in denial.
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right,
B, A, Start
today was a good day. I didn't even have
to use my a.k. at least I didn't get my heart broken anyway wasting time
in east new jersey. guess I could tell you 'bout the snow covered
rooftops, sunsets, shooting stars and picturesque backdrops. or how
I went and hung out at quick-stop and pretended that I was in clerks.
sometimes you gotta stop and remember that your not gonna live forever.
be young, think smart, stay true and just follow your heart. remember
the times we watched "karate kid" and memorized every line skipped school
and went to the arcade hung out and played galaga all day. stole
a car and we drove to michigan. 600 miles with no destination.
except to get in the car and drive and see where we'll end up. sometimes
you gotta stop and remember. that your not gonna be young forever.
think smart, have fun, stay true and don't ever grow up. out of all
I've learned in life you always keep your friends close to your heart.
cause who will help you if you're falling down. and everything is
o.k.
Road Signs And Rock Songs
postcards on the floor but this pen can't write
loneliness no more. waking up all alone on the opposite side of the
coast. I'm committed to insecurity and you. and love is overrated.
it leaves you devastated heart ripped in two roadside state of mind boulevard
of broken dreams washed out this time after time I was lost and looking
but knew I'd never find what is mine in a world that's so unkind.
and love is overrated. it leaves you devastated. the only things
I know are road signs and rock songs and lonely hotel rooms. but
still I need you here, what's new? it's 6 a.m. las vegas doesn't
look so cool once the sun come up. I draw the blinds and I dream
of you. I'm committed to all these memories of you. and love
is overrated. it leaves you devastated. love is overrated.
If You Really Want To Hear About It...
another lonely seaside town where the seasons closed
it down. but if you close your eyes you can almost hear the sounds
of crowds gone by. another year you'll all be here falling in love
and watching sunsets and sunrises. it'll be grand and just what you
planned til tomorrow comes and you've said your last goodbyes. he
says he'll write, but he won't write and you will waste your time so stay
the fuck home and greet everyone with goodbye. on this lonely winter's
day while all the crowds were still away I realized the attraction to temporary
miles and holidays. boardwalk dreams all boarded up another souvenir
made to be broken. chasing the sun isn't my kind of fun. I'd
rather sit and catch snowflakes on my tongue. when summers gone I
won't be sad as you cling on to all the good times that you've had cause
being alone isn't really all that bad. don't ever tell anyone anything
or else you'll wind up missing everybody. don't ever tell anyone
anything.
Fast Times At Drop-Out High
alone at last. just nostalgia and I we were
sure to have a blast. for you it was just another sunday in a small
indiana town. I went by the place where you and I wrote our names
in wet cement and for a moment remembered how it felt to have no one understand
that there's this dream and they're not part of it. how soon we do
forget. the house was gone but the piano lingers on and so does the
fire that burned it to the ground. you can take away all of my rights
to see the day but you can't take away my love for the day. then
there's the time that you took me aside and said I was not your only son
childhood is so fucked up. I never had any closer friends than the
ones I had when I was young. alone again just you and i nostalgia
wave goodbye. I think it's time for me to go.
Song For A Mix Tape
today I made you a mix tape and I decorated it
with lots of stars. it had all my favorite songs. there was
jawbreaker and armchair martain, built to spill and the descendents.
hell I even put one of ours on it. falling for you was the easy thing
to do. if only somehow I could make you hang around. today
I made you a mix tape to say exactly how I feel inside and make you feel
it to. these are the songs that make me smile and cry myself to sleep
at night when I'm lying without you. I love you more than I ever
loved anyone before. hey silly girl I'm begging you. all of
these songs they remind me of you I hope that you like this song.
did you ever listen to the words and melody do you fell the pain inside
they way that it hurts me? when your in your room at night I hope
you'll be singing along. and make me a tape of your favorite songs.
You Need A Hug
maybe you should work for "sick of it all" or get
a job with the l.a.p.d. did someone switch your ritalin with ephedrine?
Just don't take your fucking problems out on me. I'd buy you a little
fuzzy bunny I'd put you on my x-mas card list if you'd promise not to take
your job so seriously and realize you don't have to be so pissed.
life ain't all that bad. life ain't all that bad. even if henry
rollins is your dad. life ain't all that bad. life ain't all
that bad. buck up litter camper, don't be sad. maybe you could
go hunting with ted nugent and see how many animals you could kill.
I'd pay all of my friends just to hang out with you and take you out to
sizzler for a meal. I'd take you to my favorite karoke bar and you
sing "let the sunshine in". you could stomp my ass into oblivion
but that doesn't mean I'll put up with your shit.
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
got out of bed today I'm alive, what can I say?
I'm really happy to be somewhere with someone who makes me happy.
I took the bus downtown. all day long I walked around I looked at
all the sights and thought about how lucky I am now. I was sick of
feeling down. so I gave it all away. 2000 miles from all I
know and so much better off today. I'm still waiting for the world.
to come crashing down again. and I'm still waiting for someone to
call me up and tell me your dead. sometimes I wonder what was going
through your head I don't know but I won't go there again. you make
me smile so wide when I look into your eyes. when your not around
you know your somewhere stuck inside my mind. so here I am today
I was lost for 20 years I found clarity the day I took a chance and moved
away.
Teenage Riot
3 years gone by and still everyone screws up our
name no matter what you do still some things never change seen a lot of
the world, met a lot of friends got a lot of fond memories there's nothing
like playing a basement show on a saturday night in pennsylvania.
start the show, here we go jumping in the crowd we've gotta tear this building
down. the cops show up as usual to try and ruin our fun. it's
time to show 'em all just how its done. gonna have a teenage riot.
they'll never understand what it's like to be a kid today. gonna
have a teenage riot. let's blow 'em all away. another night
we'll be staying in some crack hotel and sneaking everyone in through the
bathroom window. gonna blow up everything in sight and get chased
away into the night by some crazy bastard with a shotgun in his hand.
start the show, here we go jumping in the crowd we've gotta tear this building
down. the cops show up as usual and try to ruin our fun. its
time to tell them all to fuck off!
Song #13
the time has come to say goodbye to all our past
regrets. I'm sorry to inform you but I doubt you'll really ever understand.
friendships aren't built on false promises I've failed without defeat.
in this game of disrespect I'm a victim a small town tragedy. here's
the difference between you and I I'll tell the truth and count my blessings
so thanks for all you've done but I won't let you get the best of me.
you think I'm just a kid but you don't fucking get it. I'm strong
in my conviction and don't you forget it. so many things are left
unsaid but I won't even waste my time for us to go our separate ways I
hope you miss me when I'm gone. friendships aren't built on false
promises. I've failed without defeat. in this game of disrespect
I'm a victim of small town rivalry. farewell to all my friends with
self respect intact. nothing will last forever never looking back.
end is forever.
Hello And Goodbye
so long my friend, don't say goodbye just give
me one last kiss beneath this glowing sky. we'll go walking through
the park and hang out in the rain. tell a joke and watch me smile
as we drink away the day and know the next time that you make a wish upon
a star I'll be wishing on the same one that you do and every night I'm
all alone in some burn out highway town I'll be thinking of the day that
I met you. hello again, it's been to long. what happened to
our love since the last time I was gone? I detach myself again and
lose something everytime. the solutions in the problem temporarily
alright. and know the next time that you make a wish upon a star
that sometimes it might actually come true. our conversation can't
consist of hello and goodbye and the silence between saying I love you.
and sometimes I wonder 'bout that too.