Playlist Everclear

everclear - santa monica

I am still living with your ghost
Lonely and dreaming of the west coast
I don't want to be your downtime
I don't want to be your stupid game

With my big black boots and an old suitcase
I do believe I'll find myself a new place
I don't want to be the bad guy
I don't want to do your sleepwalk dance anymore
I just want to see some palm trees
Go and try to shake your disease

We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die

I am still dreaming of your face
Hungry and hollow for all the things you took away
I don't want to be your good time
I don't want to be your fall back crutch anymore

I'll walk right out into a brand new day
Insane and rising in my own weird way
I don't want to be the bad guy
I don't want to do your sleepwalk dance anymore

I just want to feel some sunshine
I just want to find some place to be alone

We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die

everclear - 13 years

Woke up sweating in the sun
Sprawled across my big brother's grave
Shaking and drunk with sleep
I crawled to my feet and walked up into the shade
Of a young elm tree that must have been planted since the last
we came
Vicki, my mom, and me, cleaned the dirt
From the plaque that says his name
Walking to my girlfriend's car
Came back down on me
Yeah, I guess I fell to my knees
To keep from falling face-first into the dream
The vision that had had me twisting out under the afternoon sky
I didn't know it then
But it was thirteen years to the day he died

He held his hand in me
Like brothers we walked
Through the colorless world of an alcohol dream
I talked for hours
Trying the break through the silence
That he held over me
Then he started away, turned his head
Keep it up so you can die like me

Ever since my brother ODied
I've drifted all over from town to town to town
Every place I go it's always the same
I keep doing junk, I keep going down
My mama got religion and my sisters gave up
Man I just gave up too
I just died inside
Don't wanna die like George
Everybody says there's things to see
Everybody's pointing their fingers at me

I woke up driving
After another blackout from another bad drug
I can't shake this hell that I made for myself
For every other life I took
See my sister's son walk the line I walked
He's only sixteen
If he don't learn from my mistakes
He's gonna waste away
He's gonna die like me

everclear - 1975

Brawling scratches mean a bad hair day
Go on and press your face
All up against the glass
Watch and wonder as the pretty things spin and burn
Swing and missing all
Almost every time
Yeah, almost every time

Brawling scratches mean a bad hair day
Go on and press your face
All up against the glass
Watch and wonder as the pretty things spin and burn
Swing and missing all
Almost every time

I'm not alive, 1975
I'd spend my time wasted, dull, damaged, and blind
I'm not alive, 1975
Yeah, 1975

I see scratches and the idiot kids
I watched them getting high
Out in the cold blue sky
Watch and wonder as the asphalt babies burned
Dancing in the flame, laughing all of the while

I'm not alive, 1975
I'd spend my time wasted, dull, damaged, and blind
I'm not alive, 1975

Watch and wonder as they fade away...
Dull, damaged, and blind...
Sounds a lot like me
Dull, damaged, and blind...
Sounds a lot like me
Dull, damaged, and blind...
Yeah, almost all of the time
Dull, damaged, and blind...
Whoa, 1975

I 'm not alive, 1975
I was not alive, 1975
I'd spend all my time wasted dull, damaged, and blind 1975
Watch and wonder as they fade away...

everclear - a beautiful life

You seem to make the same mistakes everyday
Sometimes its hard to open your eyes
You want to be the only cake on the table
Yeah, you say you don't like surprises
You want to find a pretty little place to stay
You just don't want to live and leave

I just want to be where the sun shines down
I just want to be where the sun shines down
I just want to be with you

Oh,
I really hate how you push me away
I do not like it when you shut me out
I say I love you but I really don't know you
I want to change you but I don't know how
I want to leave when it gets ugly and cold
I want to leave but I have no where to go

I just want to be where the sun shines down
Yeah, I just want to be where the sun shines down
On a beautiful life
I just want to find a beautiful life
I want to be where the sun shines down
I just want to find a beautiful life
I don't care where we go
I don't care where we go

You seem to make the same mistakes all the time
Sometimes it's not too hard to understand why
You say you hate the things you have done
Yeah, you have been running with your back to the sun
You want to find a place where you don't have to hide
You say you're just happy to be alive

I just want to be where the sun shines down
Yeah, I just want to be where the sun shines down
Yeah, yeah
I just want to be where the sun shines down
On a beautiful life
I just want to find a beautiful life
I just want to be where the sun shines down
I just want to find a beautiful life
I want to be where the sun shines down
I want to be where the sun shines down

I don't care where we go
I don't care what we do
As long as I can be with you
I just want to be with you

everclear - a shameless use of charm

He was rolling in the rumor that he was the loser king for a day
She was kinda cross-eyed
She was damaged in a beautiful way
He was addicted to her body
When she opened up her legs and her heart
She was good at all the simple things
She was addicted to the subtle way he'd rip her apart

It was a shameless use of charm

She was delighted with the promise of a life of being bored and annoyed
He was happy with the pictures that he painted with distortion and noise
He was a sex-addicted user with a certain kind of flair
He did really not care that she was dumb and unaware
She was strong when they were naked and alone in the dark

It was a shameless use of charm

Everybody says they're looking for the fairy tale
No, they are just looking for a way to fall
Everybody says they are looking for the true love lost
True love lost

He was big, bigger than the life she knew
Back when she was good with being slow and confused
She was clean
The best thing he had ever seen
She looked just like those girls he saw in Playboy magazine

They were lost
They were looking for the easy dream
Living high on borrowed time and running low on self-esteem

They were lost
They were helpless to the rush
It felt just like a white drug

Everybody says they're looking for the fairy tale
No, they are just looking for a way to fall

Everybody says they're looking for the happy ending
No, they are just looking for a way to fall soft

Just like anyone, they are just like everyone
They were looking for the easy way to have it all

Everybody says that they are looking for the true love lost
True love lost
True love lost
True love lost

everclear - all fucked up

I am all fucked up
And I am ready to break
I don't wanna be the guy
Who is always on the outside
I wanna find my own
good place

All fucked up
And I don't know how
How I ever got to where I feel
Like I am dying on the inside
I want to be happy
But I don't know how

I am all fucked up
And it's always the same
I always get so close,
Then I let it get away
I got no one but
myself to blame

I'm all fucked up
And I don't know why
If the rest of my life
Is going to be like this
Think I would rather die
I am all fucked up

Yes, I am all fucked up
You're happy
when you are all fucked up
Yes, I am all fucked up

I am all fucked up
Yes, I am ready to break
I don't wanna be the guy
Who is always on the outside
I wanna find my own
good place

All fucked up
And I don't know how
How I ever got to where I feel
Like I'm dying on the inside
I want to be happy now

I am all fucked up
And it is always the same
I always get so close
then I let it get away
I got no one but
myself to blame

I am all fucked up
And I don't know why
If the rest of my life
Is going to be like this
Than I think I would rather die
I am all fucked up

everclear - am radio

The VCR and the DVD
There wasn't none of that crap
Back in 1970

We didn't know about
A world wide web

It was a whole different game being played
Back when I was a kid

You wanna get down
In a cool way?

Just picture yourself on a beautiful day

With the big bell bottoms
And groovy long hair
Justa walking in style
With a portable CD player

No
No...you would listen
To the music on
The AM radio

Yeah...you could hear the music
The AM radio

Flashback to '72
Another summer in the neighborhood
Hanging out with nothing to do

Sometimes
We'd go driving around
In my sister's Pinto
Cruisin' with the windows rolled down

We'd listen to the radio station
We were too damn poor
To buy the 8 track tapes

There wasn't any good time
To want to be inside
My mom would want to watch that TV all goddamn night

I'd be in bed with the radio on
I would listen to it all night long
Just to hear my favorite song

You'd have to wait
But you could hear it
On the AM radio

Yeah...you could hear the music
On the AM radio

I can still hear mama say
"Boy...Turn that radio down!"

Things changed back in '75
We were all growing up
On the in
And the outside
We got in trouble with the police man
We got busted
Getting high
In the back of my friend's van

I remember 1977
I started going to concerts
And I saw the Led Zeppelin
I got a guitar
On a Christmas day
I dreamed that Jimmy Page
Would come to Santa Monica
And teach me to play

There isn't any other place that I need to go
There isn't anything that I need to know
That I did not learn from the radio

Yeah when things get stupid
And I just don't know
Where to find my happy

I listen to the music
From the AM radio

(You could hear the music
On the AM radio)

(You could hear the music
On the AM radio)

I like pop and I like soul
I like rock
But I never liked disco

(On the AM radio)

We like pop...We like soul
We like to rock
But we never liked disco

(On the AM radio)

I never liked disco...no I never liked disco

everclear - american girl

She was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn't help thinking that there was a little more to life
Somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
And if she had to die tryin'
She had one little promise she was gonna keep

Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl

It was kind of cold that night
She stood alone on the balcony
She could hear the cars roll by
Out on four forty one like waves crashing on the beach
And for one desperate moment there
She crept back in her memory
God, it's so painful when something that's so close
Is still so far out of reach

chorus

everclear - amphetamine

She came out west
To find the sun
She lost her name
But found a new one
Amy goes to school all day
But at night in the neighborhood
They call her Amphetamine

She is perfect inthat fucked up way
That all the magazines
Seem to want to glorify these days

She looks like a teenage anthem
She looks like she used to be happy with
The girl inside

She looks so bored sometimes
She has that super pale skin
And those soft green eyes
She looks like she could have been happy
In a better life

She came out west
Just to break away clean
From her family and friends
And a little girl's dream
All she wants to do every night
Is to sit beside my window
And listen to the sirens

She is perfect in that fucked up way
That all the magazines
Seem to want to glorify these days

She looks like a teenage anthem
She looks like she could have been happy
In another life
In another life

She came out west
Just to break the spell
After three long years
In a marriage from hell
Six months clean
Living sober and right
The doctors tell her
Everything will be alright

Yeah, you just take your pill
And everything will be alright

She looks like a teenage anthem
She looks like a magazine girl
She looks like a teenage anthem
Like she used to be happy
In another world

She looks like a teenage anthem
She is happy with the girl inside
She looks like a teenage anthem
And looks like she could have been
Happy in another life

In another life
Happy in another life

everclear - anita sonic love

I hear the sonic sound of brakes
As you whisper in my ear
I hold your head between my sweaty hands
And shout loud for all to hear
Anita say the word

I smell gasoline and I feel the heat
As we make love standing up
In the alley behind your street
Glow and crumble girl
I want you but I don't want your world
Anita say the word
And I will walk with you almost anywhere
Back to Al's bar, baby hand in hand
All them local boys will know that I'm your new man

Hey see Anita, yeah she's my scary girl
All black blue eyes and blue blackened hair
I can taste the heaven waiting there
Shake and tremble, broken grace
I admit it, I'm in love, but out of place
Anita say the word...
And I will sleep with you in that misfit way
With the TV noise so loud it soothes my fears
And the flickering light bathes your face

I wake from the drugs and the fear
In the night outside the world reverberates
Blue shadows in our loft, downtown L.A.
Outside the world reverberates
I need the strength I see in her
I need the love I feel inside
We talk about leaving behind the hell we're in
We laugh about making it out alive

Yeah, see Anita, yeah
she's my pretty girl
Blind eyes to the world outside
No more so than the rest of the world...
No more so, than any other girl
It makes no sense to me
Yeah Anita, say the word

everclear - annabella s song

I see you roll your eyes
you know it makes me smile
you are like the sun to me
all bright like liquid fire
I feel so powerless
to hold you up above the world
you are quite alot of trouble
such a pretty little girl
You know I'm never home
I'm always miles and miles away
I feel I'm running out of time
say the things I need to say
I call you on the telephone
you will not talk to me
you just dont understand
you are my everything
Anna Anna
Tell me what you want
tell me what you need
Anna Anna you are never alone
You are never alone
*chorus*
I like to watch you play
when you dont know i'm there
watch you when you sleep at night
reach out and touch your hair
i want to make this world be all you want it to be
yeah you just dont understand
you are my everything
*chorus*
Anna you are never alone

everclear - ataraxia

"Today, medical science recognizes
That some folks aren't helped by relaxing exercizes.
In cases of difficult tension,
And nervous apprehension,
Doctors are now prescribing medicine.
It makes those who fear they're about to quit
Feel like they're ready to begin.
Bidding their darkened spirits goodbye
For the calming peace of a cloudless sky."

everclear - baby talk

This is a song about Spike
He is a bad ass guy
Who just happens to be
A really good friend of mine

Everyone I know, yeah
Who knows Spike too
Will agree when I say the words
That Spike is cool

The problem with my friend Spike
He has fallen into
A true love with a nice girl
Who has gotta lot of tatoos

He always talks crazy
Whenever she calls
He always talks like a baby
It's obvious now...

She's got him by the ball...
She's got him by the balls...

My weird little brother James
And his ex-girlfriend
They would talk in those ridiculous voices
We would all be hanging out
Getting drunk in the neighborhood
And they both would make those ridiculous noises

He would always talk crazy
Whenever she calls
He always talks like a baby
It's obvious now...

They've got him by the balls

(They've got him by the balls)

I hate you when you talk like that
I wish you could act like a grown man

(They've got him by the balls)

I hate you when you talk like that
I wish you could act like a grown man

(They've got him by the balls)

I hate you when you talk like that
I wish you could act like a grown man

(They've got him by the balls)

You will never see me... walking that walk
You will never catch me... talking that babytalk

(You know it's true...
They've got you by the balls)

Which brings me back to Spike
A good guy to have in a fight
Unless he was with his girlfriend
Obnoxious on Saturday night

You knwo he couldn't care less
What anyone thinks
He does not give a damn
No, because he has no shame

He looks so happy
Just like everything is fine
He is oblivious to the fact
That he has no spine

He always talks crazy
(you have no shame)
Whenever she calls
(you have no shame)
He always talks like a baby
(you have no shame)
It's obvious now...

They've got him by the balls

I hate you when you talk like that
I wish you could act like a grown man

(They've got him by the balls)

I hate you when you talk like that
I wish you could act like a grown man

(They've got him by the balls)

You will never see me... walking that walk
You will never catch me... talking that babytalk

(You know it's true...
They've got you by the balls)

I am not going to let it get to me
They've got you by the balls

everclear - bad connection

Morning, this morning the curtains are shut
I'd ring you in the morning but the phone's been cut
Can you hear me, I've been calling all day
Can you hear me
The radio reporter said the line's all dead
He told me that I oughta write a letter instead
Can you hear me, I've been calling all day
Can you hear me

Yes I'd wish they'd fix the wires cause my baby won't know
That I'm leaving in the morning and I'm ready to go
Can you hear me
Can you hear me at all
Gotta get the operator, make a telephone call

And if I write a letter it won't get there on time
I'll only reach you baby on the telephone line
Can you hear me, I've been calling all day
Can you hear me
My car's all ready and my bags are all packed
I'm late already and I won't be back
Can you hear me, I've been calling all day
Can you hear me

everclear - be careful what you ask for

We burn out in the dark
We are invisible stars
We are a question mark
Be careful what you ask for

We are broken bet
We never had a chance
We want what we don't have
Be careful what you ask for

We will never die
Put your hope in the sky
To burn a perfect light,
Be careful what you ask for

I'm sorry we are living in the car
This isn't what you wanted
When you gave me your heart
I'm sorry I got lazy in need
This isn't what you wanted
When you married me

Life looks better when you waste away the day
Life looks better when you make it all again
Life looks better when you drink away the pain
Life looks better when you look away

We burn out in the dark
We are invisible stars
We are a question mark
Be careful what you ask for

We are broken bet
We never had a chance
We want what we don't have
Be careful what you ask for

I know you get mad at me
When your card gets denied
At the market down the street
I know that you wanna leave
Yeah this isn't what you wanted
When you married me

Life looks better when you waste away the day
Life looks better when you make it all again
Life looks better when you drink away the pain
Life looks better when you look away

We burn out in the dark
We are invisible stars
We are a question mark
Be careful what you ask for

We are broken bet
We never had a chance
We want what we don't have
Be careful what you ask for

You wanna believe
The world can be perfect
That anyone can be redeemed
The getter's always better than bad
That's where it all goes bad
Just when you think
That everything is gonna be alright
That's where it all goes bad
Just when you think
That everything is gonna be alright
That's where it all goes bad

We burn out in the dark
We are invisible stars
We are a question mark
Be careful what you ask for
No guess who's around
Be careful what you ask for
Even what I ask for
Be careful what you ask for
This isn't what I wanted to see
Be careful what you ask for
This isn't what I asked for
Be careful what you ask for

Life looks better
When you look the other way
Baby look the other way
Baby, do yourself a favor
Look the other way

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