Everclear

[AM radio]
[Wonderful]
[I will buy you a new life]

Am radio

"~KHJ Los Angeles!~ Portions of the day’s programming are reproduced by means of electrical transcriptions or tape recordings."

You can hear the music on the 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
Sometmes 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 cool 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!"

"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

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 wonderful again

Hope my mom ang I hope my dad
Will figure out why they get so mad
Hear them scream, I hear them fight
they say bad word 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 thoses 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 bells 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 thoses tears in your eyes
When 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 different way
No,no,no,no
I don't wanna meet your friends
And I don't wanna start over again
I just want 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

I will buy you a new life

Here's the money that I owe you
Yes 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 gues I'm doing ok
I've moved in with the strangest guy
Can you believe
He actually thinks
That I am 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 all about the time before
With that obsessive little rich boy
They might make you think you're happu
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

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