Return to Santa Monica

Everclear

2011 Released

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Santa Monica (re‐recorded)

03 : 14

Wonderful (re‐recorded)

04 : 23

Father of Mine (re‐recorded)

03 : 54

I Will Buy You a New Life (re‐recorded)

03 : 54

Everything to Everyone (re‐recorded)

03 : 21

I Won't Back Down

03 : 06

Unemployed Boyfriend (re‐recorded)

04 : 06

The Joker

04 : 58

I Will Follow You Into the Dark

02 : 38

Every Breath You Take

03 : 20

AM Radio (re‐recorded)

03 : 56

Brown Eyed Girl

04 : 10

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Track Lyrics

Wonderful (re‐recorded) 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

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

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

Na-na-na-na-na-na

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

[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

No!

Na-na-na-na-na-na

Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now

Na-na-na-na-na-na

No! (No!)

Na-na-na-na-na-na

Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now

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

No! (No!)

Na-na-na-na-na-na

Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now

[Outro until fade]

Na-na-na-na-na-na

Ooh yeah, everything is wonderful now

Na-na-na-na-na-na

Ooh yeah, everything is wonderful now

Na-na-na-na-na-na

Everything is wonderful now...

Father of Mine (re‐recorded) Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Father of mine

Tell me where have you been?

You know I just closed my eyes

My whole world disappeared

Father of mine

Take me back to the day

Yeah, when I was still your golden boy

Back before you went away

I remember blue skies, walkin' 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

Take me to a place inside

That is so hard to reach

(Oh!)

Father of mine

Tell me, where did you go?

Yeah, 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

Doin' all that I could

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

Yeah, I never understood you then

And I guess I never will

[Chorus]

Daddy gave me a name

My daddy gave me a name

(Then he walked away)

Daddy gave me a name

(Then he walked away)

My daddy gave me a name

Yeah, oh yeah

Yeah

[Chorus]

Daddy gave me a name

(Then he walked away)

Daddy gave me a name

(Then he walked away)

My daddy gave me a name

Yeah, yeah

Oh yeah

Father of mine

Tell me where have you been?

Yeah, 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 gonna let her know

All the pain I have known

[Chorus]

(Then he walked away)

Daddy gave me a name

(Then he walked away)

My daddy gave me a name

(Then he walked away)

My daddy gave me a name

(Then he walked away)

Yeah, my daddy gave me a name

[Outro]

(Then he walked away)

Yeah

(Then he walked away)

Yeah

(Then he walked away)

Oh yeah

Unemployed Boyfriend (re‐recorded) 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

AM Radio (re‐recorded) 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

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Track Lyrics

Wonderful (re‐recorded) Lyrics

Father of Mine (re‐recorded) Lyrics

Unemployed Boyfriend (re‐recorded) Lyrics

AM Radio (re‐recorded) Lyrics