Playlist Ataris

ataris - 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.

ataris - between you and me

Won't you come over?
You know that you want to.
How does it feel to know
I still want you?

Why do we always seem,
To want what we can't have?
Lessons learned.
But then I listen to my heart,
And it says still run back for more.

I'm happy for you.
I'm sure that he really loves you.
But it breaks my heart,
To know I can't hold you.

It's just hard to think
I'll never get the chance
To say you're mine.
But every time you hear this song
You'll know you've made a mark
On my heart and my mind.

ataris - takeoffs and landings

On this coldest of January nights
We'll Drive out past the runway, and watch the planes go flying by
The runway lights are the deepest blue, like the colors of your eyes
So, close them tight and kiss me one last time

If you could go anywhere right now,
Where would you go?
And would you miss me when you get there?
There's no place that I would rather be

Please don't let me go falling from the sky
This fasten seatbelt sign just needs to go out
If only you could be, right here by my side
Home wouldn't seem so far from here

Passports, customs, carry-on,
Remember to shut off all of your electronic devices
Fell asleep on Tuesday, woke up Monday afternoon
I slept right through your international dateline

If you could go anywhere right now,
Where would you go?
And would you miss me when you get there?
There's no place that I would rather be

Please don't let me go falling from the sky
This fasten seatbelt sign just needs to go out
If only you could be, right here by my side
Home wouldn't seem so far from here

Please don't let me go falling from the sky
This fasten seatbelt sign just needs to go out
If only you could be, right here by my side
Home wouldn't seem so far from here

Please don't let me go falling from the sky
This fasten seatbelt sign just needs to go out
If only you could be, right here by my side
Home wouldn't seem so far from here

ataris - radio 2

Meet me at midnight
At the broadcast tower
High above the hollywood sign
You bring your guitar and I'll bring my radio (radio)

Everyone will come from miles around
To witness this beautiful site
We'll set bonfires and pretend its the 4th of July

This is the starting of a brand new revolution
Bite the hand that feeds
Stand up and fight against messages that they're sending
Stop their frequency

You're always talkin' (its never ending)
It's about time that we turned off the radio
Call the request lines and tell them that it's over
You're always playin' all of the same songs
Over and over again
It's about time that we all turned off the radio

We'll listen to b-sides and sing along
To anthems of the years gone by
Integrity and honesty will prevail tonight
When it's all over (when it's all over)
One question still remains
Why do so many bands never make it to the radio?

[refrão]

Look outside your FM dial
They're preaching lies in 4/4 time
A generation without a voice
It's stripped of pride

ataris - hey kid

I wait for the day to come
when I'll wake up and be a stud.
I dream of a different world...
somewhere where we will go far.
I bitch about my life.
I bitch about the scene.
I hate this fucking town
wish that it was all a dream.

(Chorus) Bitch, bitch, bitch!
That's all you ever do.
Bitch, bitch, bitch!
Your ego will destroy you.
Bitch, bitch, bitch!
That's all I have to say.
Bitch, bitch, bitch!
Now I'll just fade away.

(Insert lame guitar solo here.)

Just as long as I act cool
then people will suck up to me.
They won't realize that I'm a fake
and that's what I'm going to be.
A dream and a kid
who changes every day.
Someone that has to talk
when he's got nothing to say

Hey kid, it's a great big world
out there that you think you need to see.
Hey kid, go on and live that life...
But live it without me!

(Chorus #2) Bitch, bitch, bitch!
That's all you ever do.
Bitch, bitch, bitch!
No one's more punk than you.
Bitch, bitch, bitch!
Your life is just a trend.
Bitch, bitch, bitch!
We'll see who's happy in the end

ataris - not capable of love

Beneath the glow of this hanging moon
Lies a city still and cold
Our silhouettes walk hand in hand
The drunken jukebox serenade

We pretend we're so innocent
Cause no one ever likes to hurt
Go take off that silver dress
And expose your naked heart

I'm not capable of love
That kind of love
That I felt when I was twenty one
Cause I'm not capable of love
That kind of love
That I felt when I was twenty one
Take it back

So happy birthday darling
Watch those candles melt away
Not unlike those chandeliers
At the bar where we both etched our names
Who would have thought we'd fall so hard
Who would have thought we'd fall so fast
Optimistic children
Clinging tight to all we never had

I'm not capable of love
That kind of love
That I felt when I was twenty one
Cause I'm not capable of love
That kind of love
Could I wish that I could take back
Take it back

You're the only one I want
I wish that I could take it back
Am I not capable of love
That kind of love
That I felt when I was twenty one
Cause I'd be right if I said
You're not my biggest regret
Could I wish that I could take it back

Cause I'm not capable of love
That kind of love
That I felt when I was twenty one
Take it back

ataris - that special girl

I need a girl who like to go to shows
I need a girl that won't make fun
Of my Clothes.
I'm looking for a special girl who
Wants to go all over the world,
If you're my special girl won't you
Let me know?

Do you have a boyfriend?
Or possibly a girlfriend?
Cause! I'm lonely all the time
And I wish that it would end.

I need a girl that likes to stay out late,
We'd share a cocktail, wouldn't it be great?
If only this were true
Then I would fall in love with you,
I'm looking for a special girl...
Could it be you?

I could write a stupid love song,
And sing it all across the world
But it wouldn't mean a thing.
Until I find my special girl.

Where will I find my special girl?

ataris - my hotel year

I saw the stars fall from the sky
And watched the tail lights fade away
As the sun began to witness a new day.
I drove five hundred thousand miles
To find a world unlike my own,
And now middle of nowhere seems like my home.

Alone, unknown... Yet fearing nothing but ourselves
Could be scarier than any crowded room.
I'm more alone with you than when I'm by myself.

Another night stuck on the vine,
Another low lit memory
Where time will slowly have it's way with me.

We live our lives to expect the worst
But once it happens what is left?
We will never have to be surprised again.

Just you and me not saying much of anything
Sometimes could mean more than a thousand words
Goodbye, farewell to this fucked up world that was my former self.

We never seem to have the time until we waste it
All gone, goodbye...
Think and think alike, never seemed to have the time
Until one day it's all gone, you've thrown it all away.

I'm glad you were a part of my hotel year.

ataris - 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.

ataris - and we all become like smoke

We all are so faithful
We all are so lost within our hearts
There's a spark in reply
And then our colors burst in gold
And we all become like...

Fading into nothing, fading into nothing
Just a trace of my life
That burns when I fade across

And still we all are so hopeful
So you write our sins in our blood
We look so tired in our eyes
Yet so afraid of

Fading into nothing, fading into nothing
Just a trace of my life
That burns when I fade across

We all are so, we all are so faithful

Fading into nothing, fading into nothing
Just a trace of my life
That burns when I fade across

Fading into nothing, fading into nothing
Just a trace of my heart
Leaves its mark upon a heart

ataris - whatever lies will help you rest

While Kansas city sleeps
cloaked in the twilight of this valley
at this church cross standing
roadside from a tree
I keep driving to the most desolate seclusions
my blackest secrets still imprison me
and why don't we say what we really feel?

Whenever things are at their best...
whatever lies will help you rest
whenever things are at their best...
why do we wait for it to fall apart?
fall apart

Welcome to the after-taste
of cheap wine and bad decisions
my heart trembles in this morning prayer
I can't turn my eyes
from this inner most seductions
but still somehow you found me there
and why don't we say what we really feel?

Whenever things are at their best...
whatever lies will help you rest
whenever things are at their best...
why do we wait for it to fall apart?

It's my mistake to say
I'm not the world safest bet
I've never been too good at being good
and its probably sad to say...

Whenever things are at their best...
whatever lies will help you rest
whenever things are at their best...
why do we wait for it to fall apart?

Whenever things are at their best...
whatever lies will help you rest
whenever things are at their best...
why do we wait for it to fall apart?

ataris - a soundtrack for this rainy morning

All this useless beauty is haunting to my heart
Dim the headlights, make amendments
Starry sea of night

Oh, sounds of silence so enchanting, all embracing
So seductive and so pure
Oh, I'm so insensitive, alright
Beauty is touched by the light

Stare into lights on this motorway
Puncturing in the night
I often wonder what it would feel like
A slight jump to the right
Everything goes blind

Oh, I'm so insensitive, alright
Sadness so touched by the light

Oh, sound of sadness, beautiful sadness
Whispering softly
And this final portion of night, it is ours

Oh, I'm so sensitive, alright
Oh, beauty is touched by the light

ataris - looking back on today

30th of April
Seems like yesterday
Bought a house above the ocean
Where our kids could laugh and play

I called you from Paris
To tell you that I
Wrote our names on the observation deck
Of the Eiffel Tower

Remember those nights playing summer wind on the jukebox of the bar we used to go
We made out in the bathroom and you walked me to my house
I try to convince you not to go home

If only I had more time I'd take you where you wanted to go
Italy isn't the same without you here

If only I had one wish
I'd want a million trillion life times that I could spend with you
Falling in love with you again and again
Again

First of November 1998
I was thinking of what to say when I would call
Denice come over to my house cause you're the one for me (your the one for me)
We'll drink cheap wine and watch for shooting stars

Remember our first apartment
Our couch was never big enough for two
Still we'd fall asleep in each other's arms and wake up on the floor
Now looking back it was made for me and you

If only I had more time I'd take you where you wanted to go (where you want to go)
Japan is really nice this time of year

If only I had one wish
I'd want a million trillion life times that I could spend with you
Fall in love with you again and again

If only I had more time
England isn't the same without you here

If only I had one wish
I'd want a million trillion life times that I could spend with you
Fall in love with you again and again

ataris - road signs rock songs

postcards on the floor
but this pen can't write lonliness no more.
waking up all alone
on the opposite side of the coast.

I'm commited to insecurity and you.
and love is overated.
it leaves you devistated
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 overated.
it leaves you devistated.

the only things I know are
road signs and rock songs and lonely hotel rooms.
but still I need you here, whats new?

it's 6am. 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 overated.
it leaves you devistated.
love is overrated.

ataris - secret handshakes

Marble stairs in this cathedral
Built by these hands five hundred years before
We will make good men better
We will make good men better

Draw the right hand across the neck
Drop the arm down to your side.
I hear the voices calling in the night.

Thirty-three degrees
Accepted right of hypocrisy
From this bitter cup we all shall drink
Here I am awake, itâ??s 2AM; itâ??s getting late
All I know is something isnâ??t right.

We will make good men better
How can you make good men better?

Draw the right hand across the neck
Drop the arm down to your side.
I hear the shadows calling in the night.

Get up, get up, get out
The fireâ??s burning now
Our bodies burned to ashes
Theyâ??ll be scattered to the forests.

Does it ever even faze you
That your fatherâ??s involvement with a cult
Nearly killed your first born child?

ataris