Let’s go for a drive
See the town tonight
There’s nothing to do but I’ll unwind when I’m with you
This town’s so strange
They built it to change
And while we’re sleeping all the streets, they rearrange
And my old friends, we were so different then
Before your war against the suburbs began
Before it began
And now the music divides
Us into tribes
You [...]
You told us that
We were too young
Now that night’s closing in
And in the half light
We run
Lock us up safe
And hide the key
But the night tears us loose
And in the half light
We’re free
Strange how the half light
Can make a place new
You can’t recognize me
And I can’t recognize you
We run through the streets
That we know so well
And [...]
Uh ah ah ah ah…
Yeah I was fine
Just hanging out
I was living like a player
In a west coast town yeah.
I never thought
That I would ever settle down.
Always one girl after another
Didn’t wanna be her boyfriend
All I needed was her number yeah.
Let me share a little bit of what I found.
[Pre Chorus]
There were so many flavors [...]
Let’s go downtown and watch the modern kids
Let’s go downtown and talk to the modern kids
They will eat right out of your hand
Using great big words that they don’t understand
They say
Rococo, rococo, rococo, rococo
Rococo, rococo, rococo, rococo
They build it up just to burn it back down
They build it up just to burn it back down
The [...]
American Slang by Gaslight Anthem
Look what you started
I seem to be coming out of my skin.
Look what you’ve forgotten here.
The bandages just don’t keep me in.
and when it was over I woke up alone.
and they cut me to ribbons and taught me to drive.
I got your name tattooed inside of my arm.
I called for my [...]
The summer that I broke my arm
I waited for your letter
I have no feeling for you now
Now that I know you better
I wish that I could have loved you then
Before our age was through
And before a world war does with us whatever it will do
Dreamed I drove home to Houston
On a highway that was underground
There [...]
In the suburbs I
I learned to drive
And you told me we’d never survive
Grab your mother’s keys we’re leavin’
You always seemed so sure
That one day we’d fight in
In a suburban world
your part of town gets minor
So you’re standin’ on the opposite shore
But by the time the first bombs fell
We were already bored
We were already, already bored
Sometimes [...]
Rosaries left under the mattress of the memories who could bear the witness
As you slip into oblivion, use it like a weapon
Am I left to bleed waiting for the moment when you’ve had your fun
A loaded gun
Take away your broken misery, I can’t wait to erase your memory
This love, this love is gonna be the [...]
If the businessmen drink my blood
Like the kids in art school said they would
Then I guess I’ll just begin again
You say, “can we still be friends?”
If I was scared… I would
And if I was bored… you know I would
And if I was yours… but I’m not
All the kids have always known
That the emperor wears no [...]
I look around, round, look around and look it over
I take it up, up take it out and take you nowhere
Trading in who I’ve been for shiny celebrity skin
I like to push it and push it until my luck is over
It never stop stops, never stops, well you better
Think it over prima donna you don’t [...]