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This page features "AM Radio" "Wonderful" "Father of Mine" "Santa Monica" "I Will Buy You a New Life" and "So Much For the Afterglow"

"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
Wanna get down in a cool way
Picture yourself on a beautiful day
Big bell bottoms and groovy long hair
Just walkin' in style with a portable CD player
No, you would listen to the music on the AM radio
Yeah, you could hear the music on a AM radio
Flashback, '72
Another summer in the neighborhood
Hangin' out with nothing to do
Sometimes we'd go drivin' 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 eight track tapes
There wasn't any good time to want to be inside
My mama wanna 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 a AM radio
I can still hear Mama say "Boy turn that radio down!"
SPOKEN: Aw, Mom.
Not that show again! I don't wanna watch that show!
Can't we watch Good Times or Chico and the Man or something cool?
Turn it off!
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 gettin' 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 Christmas day
I dreamed that Jimmy Page would come from Santa Monica and teach me to play
Teach me to play...
There isn't any place that
I need to go
There isn't anything that I need to know
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 my music on the AM radio
You can hear the music on a AM radio
You can hear the music on a AM radio
I like pop, I like soul, I like rock, but I never liked disco
I like pop, I like soul, I like rock, but I never liked disco
We like pop, we like soul, we like rock, but we never liked disco...
No I never liked disco...

"Wonderful"

"Hey, ain't life wonderful? Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful... Isn't it wonderful now?"

I close my eyes when I get too sad
I think thoughts that I know are bad
Close my eyes and I count to ten
Hope it's over when I open them

I want the things that I had before
Like a Star Wars poster on my bedroom door
I wish I could count to ten
Make everything be wonderful again

Hope my mom and I hope my dad
Will figure out why they get so mad
Hear them scream, I hear them fight
They say bad words that make me wanna cry

Close my eyes when I go to bed
And I dream of angels who make me smile
I feel better when I hear them say
Everything will be wonderful someday

Promises mean everything when you're little
And the world's so big
I just don't understand how
You can smile with all those tears in your eyes
Tell me everything is wonderful now

Na na na na na na na

Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now

I go to school and I run and play
I tell the kids that it's all okay
I like to laugh so my friends won't know
When the bell rings I just don't wanna go home

Go to my room and I close my eyes
I make believe that I have a new life
I don't believe you when you say
Everything will be wonderful someday

Promises mean everything when you're little
And the world is so big
I just don't understand how
You can smile with all those tears in your eyes
When you tell me everything is wonderful now

I don't wanna hear you tell me everything is wonderful now

I don't wanna hear you say
That I will understand someday
No, no, no, no
I don't wanna hear you say
You both have grown in a different way
No, no, no, no
I don't wanna meet your friends
And I don't wanna start over again
I just wanna my life to be the same
Just like it used to be
Somedays I hate everything
I hate everything
Everyone and everything
Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now

I don't wanna hear you tell me everything is wonderful now

"Father of Mine"

"Father of Mine"

Father of mine, tell me whaere have you been. You know i just closed my eyes, my whole world disappeared. Father of mine, take me back to the day, when i was still your golden boy. Back before you went away.

I remember the blue skies, walking the block. I loved it when you held me high, i loved to hear you talk. You would take me to the movie, you would take me to the beach.
You would take me to a place inside, that is so hard to reach.

Father of mine, tell me where did you go. You had the world inside your hand, but you did not seem to know. Father of mine, tell me what do you see. When you look back at your wasted life, and you don't see me.

I was ten years old, doing all that i could. It wasn't easy for me, to be a scared white boy in a black neighborhood. Sometimes you would send me a birthday card, with a five dollar bill. I never understood you then, and i guess i never will.

Daddy gave me a name. My dad he gave me a name, then he walked away. Daddy gave me a name, then he walked away. My dad gave me a name.

Father of mine, tell me where have you been. I just closed my eyes, and the world disappeared. Father of mine, tell me how do you sleep. With the children you abandoned
and the wife i saw you beat.

I will never be safe, I will never be sane. I will always be weird inside, I will always be lame. Now i'm a grown man, with a child of my own. And i swear i'm not going to let her know, all the pain i have known.

Then he walked away. Daddy gave me a name, then he walked away. My dad gave me a name, then he walked away. Daddy gave me a name, then he walked away. My dad gave me a name, then he walked away.

"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 away this 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, and watch the world die.

"I Will Buy You a New Life"

Here is the money that i owe you, so you can pay the bills. I will give you more
when I get paid again.

I hate those people who love to tell you, money is the root of all that kills. They have never been poor. They have never had the joy of a welfare Christmas.

I know we will never look back.

You say you wake up crying, yes and you don't know why. You get up and you go lay down inside my baby's room.

I guess I'm doing okay. I moved in with the strangest guy. Can you believe he actually thinks that i'm really alive?

CHORUS: I will buy you a garden where your flowers can bloom. I will buy you a new car, perfect shiny and new. I will buy you that big house, way up in the west hills. I will buy you a new life.

Yes I will.

I know all about that other guy, the handsome man with athletic thighs. I know about all the times before, with that obsessive little rich boy.

They might think you're happy, yeah maybe for a minute or two. They can't make you laugh, no they can't make you feel the way that i do.

CHORUS

Yes I will.

I know we can never look back.

Will you please let me stay the night? No one will ever know.

CHORUS

I will buy you a new life.

"So Much For the Afterglow"

This is a song about Susan, this is a song about the girl next door. This is a song about the everyday occurrences, that make me feel like letting go. Yes i think we got a problem, so much for the afterglow.

This is a song about Susan. This is a song about the way things are. This is a song about the scary things you see from the corner of your eyes. Don't you wonder why,

We never talk about the future, we never talk about the past anymore. We never ask ourselves the questions to the answers that nobody even wants to know. I guess the honeymoon is over, so much for the afterglow.

I remember we could talk about anything, I remember when we used to want to hangout.
I remember we could talk about anything, I remember when we used to want to hangout. I remember we could talk about anything, I remember when we used to want to hangout. I remember when we used to want to hangout, I remember we could talk about anything. I remember, I remember, I remember.

We never talk about the future, we never talk about the past anymore. We never ask ourselves the questions, to the answers that nobody needs to know.

Oh well, oh well, oh well. So much for the afterglow, oh well, oh well, oh well. So much for the afterglow, oh well, oh well, oh well, oh well. Yes i guess we need the drama.

So much for the afterglow.