Lyrics
- Warm Up
- Never Sober Girl
- Cherolyn
- Cigarettes
- Quarter Sober
- Canvas
- Oh My Dear
- White Trash Superman
- Typical Dipshit Staredown
- Bite Down Baby
- Pavement Kiss
- Stunning
- Scott 60
- Suddenly
- In Your Head
- Could I Run?
- Those Old Days
1. Warm Up ^top^
I woke up once again at 11:45
I hit the snooze button twice just to prove I was alive
I smoked a cigarette in the shower
Fell asleep in there for another half an hour
I feel like hell and I’m looking even worse
But I just found four bucks…in my mother’s purse
There’s a couple of girls spinning ‘round my head
But there’s only one who can help me now
I’m gonna get to her with one eye open
She’ll bring me back to life somehow
Please wake me up Diane
Try to do the best you can
I’m half asleep at half past noon
And I don’t know where I am
Please wake me up Diane
The answers to the riddles of my life
Might be at the bottom of this cup
And I’m in no mood to find out what they are
So please give me a refill
Please give me a warm up
Please wake me up Diane
Try to do the best you can
I’m half asleep at half past noon
And I don’t know where I am
Please wake me up Diane
They’re looking over me and I can see it’s happening again
I can’t get over me and all the things I’ve seen and I’ve been
2. Never Sober Girl
I found her in the driveway
She was bitch’n and moan’n
She just lost her car keys
And all of her serotonin
And I’ve got a funny feeling
That this night is getting worse
She’s got a sick pack in her back seat
And some vallum in her purse
She said she wanted to start a band
So I gave her my guitar
She sold it at a pawn shop
And spent the money at the bar
The next day she bought me breakfast
And all bad blood was forgotten
But that night when we played Scrabble
She spelled oxycotin
I took her to the grocery store
She hadn’t been there in a while
She shoplifted some produce
And did a whip-it in the aisle
Then she borrowed all my silverware
She said she’d return them soon
She brought back the knives and forks
But burned all of my spoons
She might look like a gem
But she’s far from a pearl
But I’m hanging out again
With this never sober girl
Sometimes she tries to remember
And then she forgets
3. Cherolyn
Spent another weekend with you
And you’re still lying on my floor
Strange that every time I look at you
You’re always different than before
Gone away, gone away
Where have you gone?
You say you’re coming back
But I don’t know when
And every time I try to find you
I end up losing myself again
Cherolyn, Cherolyn
Got a ways to go
Cherolyn, Cherolyn
And I just don’t know
I hope you’re happy where you are
Cuz I’m dying here sometimes
If you ever need a soul to share
You can always have a piece of mine
4. Cigarettes
Cigarettes make me lazy
And you make me crazy
And I don’t know which one to quit
I’m tired of pretending
That the world isn’t ending
I’m broke and I’m busted and that’s it
And I’m always crawl’n down
I’m always crawl’n down
You don’t have to stand above me
When I’m buried in the ground
But won’t you watch me crawl’n down
5. Quarter Sober
I wrote this on the couch in October
I was half asleep and a quarter sober
I guess it’s up to me to say it’s over
This is the last time I’ll feel you roll over
Maybe I’ll find you in December
Just to see if you still remember
That I wrote this on the couch in October
When we were half asleep and a quarter sober
6. Canvas
She’s an artist in an office chair
Handcuffed to the present tense
But she deserves to get the nerve
To jump her self defense
And the veins in her wrist
Are stressed out from making fists
And she tries her best to keep it in her pocket
She needs a vacation from this sensation
She kicks off her shoes, shuts the door and locks it
Her line is filled with ungrateful requests
And sometimes she feels like she can’t hide
They grabbed her belt and so she felt
Like another voice mail suicide
And she says
“Oh, Oh, I can’t stand this
I want to paint it all
But I can’t find my canvas”
And as she paces the floor
She thinks she can’t take this anymore
And then she looks into the mirror
And she begins to realize
Everything that’s sacred
Behind her shining eyes
And she takes her breath and holds it
And she takes her fear and folds it
And she throws it, and she throws it all away
And she says
“Oh, Oh I understand this
I can paint it all
I am my canvas”
7. Oh My Dear
It’s 12:30am again
Do you know where your comfort is?
Behind your eyes
Is your best disguise
But it’s not matching his
Your sheets are laughing at me
And they’ve told me too much
I’m a statue filled with nicotine
I’m too fragile to touch
The ghosts that guide my passive voice
Have finally left me
Never trust anyone….
Their drafts are cold while mine are written
You effortlessly have them smitten
Standing in the shadows of the midnight dancers
I am the one who always answers
And I say,
“Oh my dear
Oh my dear in headlights”
I’ve got front row tickets for the big regret
I haven’t slept of my relapse yet
I feel too much like myself tonight
I still have a few nails left to bite
And I say,
“Oh my dear
Oh my dear in headlights”
Their drafts are cold while mine are written
You effortlessly have them smitten
Standing in the shadows you’re a midnight dancer
Pardon me this time I will not answer
8. White Trash Superman
I’m so worthless
I don’t deserve this
My girlfriend looks into her crystal ball
One day she’ll look right through me
And she’ll know I fake it all
How did I let it get to this?
I sold my soul for just one kiss
Standing on the corner waiting for my chance
Now I’m just a voice without a song and dance
I’m so worthless
I get so nervous
My girlfriend grabs on to my ball and chain
One day the noose will tighten and I won’t complain
At all…not at all
I filled my hollow soul into her empty cup
Then I cheated on my girl after I knocked her up
Now I’m standing on the corner waiting for my chance
Now I’m just a voice with out a song and dance
Where’s my song and dance?
I’m your White Trash Superman
Let me in the cover band
White Trash Superman
Dear God I need a cover band
White Trash Superman
Hey guys I got a mic stand!
White Trash Superman
And now I’ve got the cover band blues
It’s copyrighten bitches
And I can do Maynard to a T
It’s copyrighten bitches
Did I mention I’m in a coverband?
And I’ve got my own mic stand
I could be your White Trash Superman
It’s copyrighten bitches
9. Typical Dipshit Staredown
Here’s a big difference that we’ve got
You’re a fuck’n idiot and I’m not
Dig’n in deep in your bullshit stash
Well I bought myself a future
And I paid in cash
henna?
So you heard a few a few things a few things about me
So you think she’s doing fine without me
But you know she’s still got me in her brain
Yeah ya know and it’s driving you insane
Well a…
Hey guy get over here.
Hey guy get over here
Hey guy get over here
I’ve got a little somethin’ just for your ear
I said, “ You have got your arms around
You have got your arms around
You have got your arms around
No one I haven’t held before”
So you bought her rings
So you bought her pearls
And she don’t even notice when you’re
Look’n at the other girls
So you think you’re in?
You think you got it made?
Well let me tell you something dipshit
There’s a little more to life than get’n laid
So you give me a stare
Cuz for tonight you won’t be apart
Well you’ve got your hands around her waist
I got a mine around her heart
I said, “ You have got your arms around
You have got your arms around
You have got your arms around
No one I haven’t held before”
10. Bite Down Baby
They’re going for another drive
She thinks she’s keeping him alive
He tells her another lie
Just so he can go get high
Let me ask you one question
if you will permit
Were you born a fucking scumbag
Or did you have to work at it?
He’s got her wrapped in all his charm
Bite down baby, bite down baby
Here we go.
11. Pavement Kiss
She forgot her reputation
And the window’s open
Can’t seem to straighten out her mind
A moment of hesitation
And the option’s open
Seemed like a good idea at the time
Always knew there’d be days like this
But some of them don’t fade away
Promises left broken
Some dreams don’t wake up
And the option’s open
A consequence to take up
Always knew there’d be days like this
But sometimes you can’t run away
And she’s waiting for the pavement kiss
If they’d just let go of her wrist
She would show them how cool she is
When she makes it with the pavement kiss
And for that moment she took flight
Everything seemed it would be alright
Thought to herself while she was in the air,
“Everything’ll be better down there”
Drums were pounding
I was throwing punches in my head
I thought I heard you dreaming
But I was screaming
Something you once said
You can call it a tragedy
You can call it a curse
But right now I’m headed
Back to do something worse
And a large crowd has gathered
I just wish they’d disperse
This is not their precious moment
I was here first
12. Stunning
You lay sulking with your shades down
Cursing at the sun
You’re still pull’n glass out of your hand
Too bad the mirror wouldn’t run
You suck down your self destruction
Each and every day
You fake it with your friends and lovers
Just so they will stay
You’re still smoke’n menthol lights
And you know that you’re never gonna quit
Guess what babe?
I stole your sweatshirt and I look better in it
And I’m laying in the comfort
That you’ve never felt
I’ll throw water on you girl
Just to see if you melt
I do what I want
But not always what I should
I’ve got my firsthand scars
And my secondhand hood
As stunning as you are
So stunning that you are
You’re as cunning as you are
A coward
And I’m laying in the comfort
That you’ll never feel
You robbed my will and patience
Now it’s my turn to steal
So say what you want
I know I did the best I could
Now I’ve got my firsthand scars
And my secondhand hood
As stunning as you are
So stunning that you are
You’re as cunning as you are
A coward
13. The Scott 60 Song
I’m sitting in the Scott 60 again
Drowning myself in caffeine
I’m surrounded my losers and selfish self-abusers
And I fall somewhere in between
I got a restraining order against reality
That son of a bitch can’t get ten yards near me
That there Waverly sky, she looks so pristine
As I pass on the sugar and cream
Oh she can’t remember and I can’t forget
Lost my heart and six bucks on a trifecta bet
Now my day dream’n ain’t pay’n the rent
That there girl she came and she went
I only smoke when I’m bored, so needless to say
I’m up to three and a half packs a day
I’m still unemployed and hoping for a raise
I’ll admit I’ve seen better days
I’m as weird as a weirdo and surrounded by t’ieves
This waitress is cross-eyed, I hope that she leaves
I may dwell on bitter irony that my mind conceives
But I wear my soul on my sleeves
Oh she can’t remember and I can’t forget
Lost my heart and six bucks on a trifecta bet
Now I’m jump’n hop scotch in wet cement
That there girl she came and she went
I’m sitting in the Scott 60 again
You probably want to know why
This clientele look like they came straight from hell
And it brings tears of joy to my eye
So before it gets shut down by the department of health
Come on in, look around, you’ll feel better ‘bout yourself
It’s good to be around people who are worse off than you
And they got pinball and Super Pac Man too
Oh she can’t remember and I can’t forget
Lost my heart and six bucks on a trifecta bet
I’m choke’n to death on my last cigarette
That there girl she came and she went
14. Suddenly
There I sat at LaRosa’s Store
Like so many times before
Seemed like an ordinary night
And then I saw you
Standing in the street light
Suddenly
You came walk’n over to me
So suddenly
I knew where it was that I wanted to be
I never knew who I was
I felt so empty just because
I didn’t know where I belong
Just one of those lives
When everything went wrong
And Suddenly
You came walk’n over to me
Suddenly
I knew where it was that I wanted to be
And every mistake that I made before
Didn’t seem to matter anymore
All that mattered then was you were here with me
And it all happened so suddenly
So Suddenly
You came walk’n over to me
Suddenly
I knew where it was that I wanted to be
And every girl that I knew before
Didn’t seem to matter anymore
All that matters now is you are here with me
And it all happened so suddenly
15. In Your Head
I was spinning in slow motion
Till I stopped at your command
I was sinking in the ocean
Till you pulled me to the sand
You were working at a nine to five
With just one benefit
You were feeling barely half alive
You told them all “tough shit”
I think I’ll save the world today
If I can just get out of bed
Sometimes I lose the words to say
And then you find them in your head
I was hiding from attention
But looking for new tricks
I was fiending for redemption
And you came up with the fix
You were staring at all your best friends
And wondering where you fit
You were thinking when the story ends
You’d have chapters to omit
I think I’ll save the world today
If I can just get out of bed
Sometimes I lose the words to say
And then you find them in your head
16. Could I Run?
I was thinking ‘bout writing you a letter
But I wrote you a song
If you ever need to feel a little better
You can just sing along
You’ve got those big brown eyes
Well, I’ve got a big red heart
If you want to we can put them all together
We can make a little start
Let me tell you ‘bout all my old friends
They’ve been pull’n my chain
They’ve been try’n to drag me under
Things I can’t explain
Things I can’t explain
I got away, got away, got away now
What else could I do?
Ran away, ran away from them all now
Could I run into you?
People say I’m half past crazy
Well maybe that’s true
But I know I’m sick of being lazy
I run around this zoo
Not anymore
I got away, got away, got away now
What else could I do?
Ran away, ran away from them all now
Could I run into you?
17. Those Old Days
Kicked the pedal to the floor
I took a turn on the wind
It’s days like this I’ll never remember
But you can feel them on my skin
I can recall the color of her eyes
But I can’t see the shade of her dress
She poured her issues in her tissues
And I cleaned up the mess
Well there’s a point where your body gives up
And there’s a point where your soul gives in
And that’s where you’re gonna die my friend
Or that’s where you’re gonna begin
Well I ain’t got no place to be
So I am going for a drive
Sometimes the present be a kill’n me hard
But those old days keep me alive
She likes to stick her head in
When she don’t know what’s in the cave
And she’ll never tell what she said to me
And I’ll never tell what I gave
And somewhere on those steps
There sits a perfect ghost
Sometimes the things you’ll never forget
Are the things that love you most
Well I ain’t got no place to be
So I am going for a drive
Sometimes the present be a kill’n me hard
But those old days keep me alive
Cigarettes make me lazy and you make me crazy
And I think you both I’m gonna quit
I’m tired of pretending that your world isn’t ending
You’re broke and you’re busted and that’s it.
And you’re always crawl’n down
Sometimes the things you’ll never forget
Are the things that love you most
