Songs From an American Movie, Vol. One: Learning How to Smile

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Song From an American Movie, Part 1

01 : 39

Here We Go Again

04 : 10

AM Radio

03 : 56

Brown Eyed Girl

04 : 21

Learning How to Smile

03 : 50

The Honeymoon Song

03 : 38

Now That It's Over

03 : 49

Thrift Store Chair

02 : 08

Otis Redding

03 : 56

Unemployed Boyfriend

04 : 15

Wonderful

04 : 41

Annabella's Song

04 : 55

Out of My Depth

03 : 32

Rock Star

03 : 30

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Track Lyrics

Song From an American Movie, Part 1 Lyrics

2 ContributorsSong From An American Movie, Part 1 LyricsThe only thing that ever made sense to me

Is the words to a song from an American movie

The only thing that ever made sense is my life

Is the sound of my little girl laughing

Through the window of a summer night

I sit alone in the backyard

Wishing I could be inside

Just the sound of my little girl laughing

Makes me happy just to be alive

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Here We Go Again Lyrics

2 ContributorsHere We Go Again LyricsSay here we go again say here we go again

Oooooooo

You know I like to watch you sleep (sleep sleep sleep)

No... I don't want to touch you

You'll get mad at me

No... I don't want to think about

The bad times

Aw... anyone could have a bad year

Now I don't want you to show me

Do not want you to know me

The way I used to be...

All these good things we have

Would not mean a damn to me

And I don't want to hear

Those words

You feel you have to say

When you find out

How I used to be

Back in the day

Yeah you know I like

The way you slide (slide slide slide)

Yeah yes I like it when you do

That slow glide

Now please don't bad talk all those

Good times

Aw don't ask for answers, baby

That you do not want to hear

Now I don't want you to make me

Do not need you to break me

Of all my childish ways

I'm still the same you know

Dumb rock hard

And good to go

I still hear them voices calling me

From back in the day

Aw baby... can't you see

There ain't no place

I'd rather be...

Than watching dirty movies

In that happy room with you

Sleeping on a mattress

In the corner

Eating Chinese food

I hear that voice in my head say

Here we go again

Now here we go again

I know you like the way I rock

Sometimes I just need

To drown out

All that bad talk

I could not care less what your

Friends say

Someone's always talking shit

About the old days

You do not need to remind me

That I left it all behind

Those things I used to do

I don't want that other life cause

I am so in love with you

I can barely hear it calling me

From back in the day

Aw baby... can't you see

There ain't no place I'd rather be

Than watching dirty movies

In that happy room with you

Sleeping on a mattress

In the corner

Eating Chinese food

I hear that voice in my head say...

Here we go again

Yeah here we go again

Aw baby... here we go again

I know here we go

I know... I know... I know...

I know... I know...

Aw baby baby can't you see

I know you got some doubts

I know you don't believe

I know you think that I'm crazy

And I know you're just like me

When I hear that voice inside

It makes me want to jump right in

Saying

Here we go! (go!)

Here we go again...

Let's go watch some dirty movies

Yes in that nasty little room

Sit right on the mattress

While we eat that greasy

Chinese food

I hear that voice inside my head say

Here we go again

Oooh... baby here we go again

AM Radio Lyrics

[intro]

*K-H-J Los Angeles!

Portions of today's programming are reproduced by means of

Electrical transcriptions or tape recordings*

You could hear the music on the AM Radio

[Verse 1]

The VCR and the DVD

There was 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

Want to get down in a cool way

Picture yourself on a beautiful day

Big bell-bottoms and groovy long hair

Just walking in style with a portable CD player

[Chorus]

No, you could listen to the music on the AM Radio, AM Radio

Yeah, you could hear the music on the AM Radio, AM Radio

[Verse 2]

Flashback back in '72

Another summer in the neighborhood hanging out with nothing to do

Sometimes we go driving around

In my sister's Pinto cruising with the windows rolled down

We listen to the radio station

We were too damn poor to buy the eight track tape

There wasn't any good time to want to be inside

That my mama wanna watch that TV all goddamn night

[Pre-Chorus]

I'd be in bed with the radio on

I would listen to it all night long

Just to hear my favorite song

[Chorus]

You'd have to wait 'til you could hear it on the AM Radio, AM Radio

Yeah, you could hear the music on the AM Radio, AM Radio

I can still hear Mama say, "Boy, turn the radio down!"

[Spoken]

Oh, 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!...

[Verse 3]

Things changed back in '75

We were all blowing up on the end of the outside

We got in trouble with the policeman

We got busted getting high in the back of my friend's van

I remember 1977

I started going to concerts and I saw Led Zeppelin

I got a guitar on Christmas day

I dreamed that Jimmy Page would come to Santa Monica to teach me to play

[Pre-Chorus]

Teach me to play

There isn't any place that I need to go

There isn't anything that I need to know

That I did not learn on the radio

[Bridge]

Everything gets stupid and I just don't know

Where to find my happy

I listened to the music on the AM Radio, AM Radio

You could hear the music on the AM Radio, AM Radio

[Chorus]

(AM Radio) I like pop, (AM Radio) I like soul

I like rock, but I never liked disco

(AM Radio) I like pop, (AM Radio) I like soul

I like rock, but I never liked disco

(AM Radio) we like pop, (AM Radio), we like soul

We like to rock (no, no), but we never liked disco

(AM Radio) we like pop, we like soul

We like to rock (no), but we never liked disco

(AM Radio) we like pop, (AM Radio), we like soul

We like to rock (no), but we never liked disco

[Outro]

(AM Radio) no, I never liked disco

(AM Radio) no, (AM Radio) no

(AM Radio) no, I never liked disco

The Honeymoon Song Lyrics

2 ContributorsThe Honeymoon Song LyricsYou know I love you baby

And I know you love me too

But the fun that day

Didn't start until

We left on our honeymoon

Stepped off the plane

Into a warm sunny day

Then we

Got lei'd

Together

The sun shines down

On a Hanalei Town

Where the fish all smile

'Cause they know us

Our wedding day

Was warm and sunny

Our friends and family

Came from out of town

We said "I do"

Then ate some food

And smiled

Until the sun

Went down

We'll take the Zodiac Cadillac

Around the north shore

Then we'll head back

The sea turtles comes to greet us

So let's get loaded tonight

We'll drink on the flight

Back home

The honeymoon is over

You know I love you baby

And I know you love me too

But the fun that day

Didn't start until

We left on our honeymoon

We're on our honeymoon

The fun that day

Didn't start until

We left on our honeymoon

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Otis Redding Lyrics

4 ContributorsOtis Redding LyricsDo you remember when we were hungry?

Do you remember when we were cold?

Do you remember when we were happy?

Do you remember? Do you remember?

Do you remember when we were lucky?

We were livin' the life almost every night

I would wrap you in my thin white arms

Sit and watch the stars glide

Yeah, do you remember when we were the losers?

Do you remember when we were the lame?

Do you remember when we were the lepers?

Do you remember? Do you remember?

Do you remember when we were strung out?

Eatin' top ramen, macaroni and cheese

We would get so lost in that basement room

Let the Otis Redding sing us to sleep

I wish I had one more life

I don’t wanna be wasted

I don’t wanna live inside this daydream anymore

I just wanna be happy again

I don’t wanna be wasted, I don't wanna be blind

I don’t wanna be wasted

I don’t wanna live inside this daydream anymore

I just wanna be happy again

I don’t wanna be wasted, I don’t wanna be

I don’t wanna be wasted, I don’t wanna be blind

I wish I could be like all my heroes

I wish I could be like all yours too

I wish I could sing like Otis Redding

I wish I could play this guitar in tune

Do you remember when we were hungry?

Do you remember when we were cold?

Do you remember when we were happy in a way

No one outside could ever know?

I wish I had one more life

How I wish I had one more life to live

I don't wanna be wasted

I don't wanna live inside of this daydream anymore

I just wanna be happy again

I don't wanna be wasted, I don't wanna be

I don't wanna be wasted

No, I don’t wanna live inside of this daydream anymore

I just wanna be happy again

I don't wanna be wasted, I don't wanna be

I don't wanna be wasted, I don't wanna be blind

No, I don't want to be blind

Unemployed Boyfriend Lyrics

[Spoken]

Hi this is Peggy, leave me a nice message or I'll kill ya!

[Spoken]

Hey Peggy, it's me

You are never going to believe what happened to me today

I'm sitting at the unemployment office

Waiting on my loser of a case worker

In one of those nasty chairs

When from out of nowhere

This total stranger walks right up to me, sits down

Then leans over and says something like

"This is going to sound a little obsessive...."

[Sung]

This is going to sound a little obsessive

This is going to sound a little bit strange

I have one thing to say

Before I turn and I walk away

This is going to sound a little impulsive

This is going to sound a little insane

I know you don't know me yet

But you and I

We will be together

Someday

I know ... I know ... I sound like I'm on drugs

But listen to me when I say...

That ever since I first saw you

Sitting on your car outside you asked for a cigarette

I couldn't stop staring at your eyes

Ever since when I first saw you

Looking bored in that plastic chair

With the lights of the office around you

Those blonde streaks

They look so pretty in your black hair

You look cool and alternative with that disaffected stare

Yeah, You want people to think that you just don't care

Hey, you can be with me 'cause I just might be the one

Who will treat you like you're perfect

Who will always make you cum

Hey, you can be with me

I will always let you win

I will never be like those other guys

I will never be your unemployed boyfriend

[Spoken]

Can you believe he said that to me?!?

To me, of all people!

I can't even remember the last time when a guy took me out on a date and actually paid for it

[Sung]

This is going to sound a little bit out there

Yeah this is going to sound a little insane

But I keep having the same dream

You will be the mother of my children someday

Someday...

I've heard you sleep with that obnoxoius guy

I know he is in that famous band

You look so sad when you are with him

Yes, I never see him reach to hold your hand

You can be with me, yes I will treat you like a queen

I will go to all those chick flick movies

That I really don't want to see

You can be with me

No I will never let you down

I will never make out with your girlfriends

When I know you're not around

You can be with me

Yeah I just might be the one who will treat you like you're special

I will always make you cum

You can be with me

I will always let you win

I will never be like those other guys

I will never be your unemployed boyfriend

[Spoken]

Can you believe this?

I mean, can this be for real?!?

Then he takes my hand, writes down his number, and just walks away

I mean, WOW

But you know, the weird thing is, he's actually kinda cute

In a really intense way, kinda like Perry Farrell

Intense but sensitive, anyway I told my bitchy sister about it

And she just laughed at me, I told her I was really exited about this guy

I said this could be the guy

Wonderful Lyrics

[Intro: Children]

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

[Verse 1: Art]

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

[Verse 2: Art]

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

[Pre-Chorus: Art]

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

[Chorus: Band and Art]

Na-na-na, na-na-na, na, na

Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now

[Verse 3: Art]

I go to school and I run and play

I tell the kids that it's all okay

I laugh aloud 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

[Pre-Chorus: Art]

Promises mean everything when you're little

And the world is so big (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

[Chorus: Band and Art]

Na-na-na, na-na-na, na, na

No, I don't wanna hear you tell me everything is wonderful now

Na-na-na, na-na-na, na, na

No, I don't wanna hear you tell me everything is wonderful now

Na-na-na, na-na-na, na, na

[Bridge: Art]

I don't wanna hear you say

That I will understand someday

No (No) No (No) No (No) No!

I don't wanna hear you say

You both have grown in a different way

No (No) No (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

Some days I hate everything (Everything)

I hate everything (Everything)

Everyone and everything (Everything)

Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now

[Chorus: Band, Children, and Art]

Na-na-na, na-na-na, na, na

No!

Na-na-na, na-na-na, na, na

Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now

Na-na-na, na-na-na, na, na

No! (No!)

Na-na-na, na-na-na, na, na

Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now

Na-na-na, na-na-na, na, na

No, I don't wanna hear you tell me everything is wonderful now

Na-na-na, na-na-na, na, na

No! (No!)

Na-na-na, na-na-na, na, na

Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now

[Outro]

Na-na-na, na-na-na, na, na

Ooh, yeah, everything is wonderful now

Na-na-na, na-na-na, na, na

Ooh, yeah, everything is wonderful now

Na-na-na, na-na-na, na, na

Everything is wonderful now

Na-na-na, na-na-na, na, na

Na-na-na, na-na-na, na, na....

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Out of My Depth Lyrics

3 ContributorsOut Of My Depth LyricsOut of my depth

Lost in the air

Fallin faster

Like a broken elevator

Out of my depth

Lost in the dark

Waitin for that other shoe

To come down hard

I can not communicate

Like i wish i could

I do not deal with my problems

Like i know i should

I am out of my depth

I am out of my league

Watchin everythin

Just slip away from me

Something bad is gonna happen

I can feel it deep inside

There are shadows all around me

Like a bad moon on the rise

I am in over my head

I am in too deep & over my head

Yeh i guess i should keep my opinions to myself

I guess im out of my depth

Out of my depth

Right from the start

I feel like i was born

With an invisible heart

Out of my depth

Seems like every single day

I can't find the words

To make the good things come way

Yes i feel like i am fakin it

I feel like i am wrong

I feel like im a guest

Like i just do not belong

I am out of my depth

Every single day

I just cannot find the words

To make my monsters go away

Somethin bad is gonna happen

I can feel it deep inside

There are shadows all around me

Like a bad moon on the rise

I am in too deep yeh over my head

Yes im in too deep & over my head

I should seek some professional help

Cos im out of my depth, yes im out of death

& im slowly going out of my mind

Ahh go away

Make them go away

Some day i know

I will make them go away

Make them go away

Some day i know

I will make my monsters go away

I am in over my head

I should seek some professional help

I should keep my opinions to myself

I guess im out of my depth

Im outta my depth

Im outta my, oh, oh, waohhhh

Yes im slowly goin out of my mind