Lyrics Everclear - Nervous And Weird

Lyrics Everclear - Nervous And Weird

You know I want to be the way you want me to
Big hearted and tall enough to cover you
I would break in half if you said it out loud
Splinter out of myself just like mercury
I think it's better now than how it used to be
You were lying in bed and I would levitate
I think it's better here than where we used to be
I wish I could go out into the Oregon sun to be alive in the day
I would smile at everyone

I remember you back in '83 you were dressing insane
You were my everything you were so different from all those other
girls

A blind Electra in drag so cool and casually lame
I think I'm better now than how I used to be
Always nervous and weird, scared most of the time
I think it's better now than how it used to be
Always up in the night afraid to live in the day

Afraid of being afraid
Afraid to live in the day
Afraid of being afraid

Now I sit alone when you're not around
I read aloud just to hear a friendly voice
I see you scary dolls they always look at me
From the corner of my eyes I see them shake their heads

You know I want to be the way you me to
Big hearted and tall enough to cover you
You know I want to be the way you me to
I wish I could go out just to be alive in the day
To be alive in the day

Lyrics Everclear - One Hit Wonder

Lyrics Everclear - One Hit Wonder

Loopy says he likes it up on top
Yes he knows if he ever lets go
The pretty machine will swallow him whole

He has no fear
He has no sense of shame
He will not stop until everybody everywhere wants to know his name
The one hit wonder
He likes the big time

He says he wants to live the kind of life
That will make the folks back home all bitch and whine
He knows if he ever even gets the chance
He'd sell his soul to make the monster dance
They can't hurt you unless you let them
Loopy says he sure does like the good life
Yes he knows all those women who scheme
Are just pretty pictures in the pretty machine
He knows if he ever even gets to try

He will bite down hard to make the monster cry
He knows if he ever even gets a chance
He'd sell his soul to make the monster dance
They can't hurt you unless you let them

I will say it again
They cannot hurt you unless you let them
Loopy says he likes it up on top
He prays to god and he hopes like hell
That the pretty machine
They will never fail

He has no fear
He doesn't really even have the time
He knows that the world is in love
With the pretty machine

The one hit wonder
He likes the big time
He wants to live the kind of life
That will make the folks back home scream, bitch, and whine

He knows if he ever even gets to try
He will bite down hard to make the monster cry
He knows if he ever even gets a chance
He'd sell his soul to make the monster dance
He knows if he ever even gets to play
He will stomp like god to make the monster say

They can't hurt you unless you let them
They cannot hurt you unless you let them

Lyrics Everclear - Like A California King

Lyrics Everclear - Like A California King

I see you have made yourself a brand new life
Such a cool blue star with a bright new shine
I see you wear your checkered past just like a shining suit of gold

I know you think you look so special
I am told you have found yourself a brand new time
Watch the world stand still as the years go by
I know you think you are so new and different

But it makes no sense to me
There is nothing new about you
Just another self-made man
There is nothing new that I can see
Enjoy it while you can

I know you think you look so special
What makes you think you are so special?
What makes you think you are unique?
I see you smile and I get angry
As I watch you go colossal

Like a California king
All these Californians, coming up here
And changing everything
They're just a bunch of carpetbaggers
And I wish they'd all just go
Go!

I hear you gave the world a brand new voice
Such a happy melody with a new wave whine
Yeah I see you hide behind your own noise
I think I've seen enough

I will find you in the crowded room
I will knock you off your feet
I will burn you just like teenage love
I will eat you just like meat
I will break you into pieces

Hold you up for all the world to see
What makes you think you're better than me?
What makes you think you're better?
What makes you think you are complete?
What makes you think you are the only one immune to falling down

Why can't you see
I see you fall and I get happy
I will watch you burn like fire
I will watch you burn like a California king

Lyrics Everclear - Eleanor Young

Lyrics Everclear - Eleanor Young

Eleanor young, eleanor child
Standing on a lonely hilltop in the appalachian wild
Eleanor sing, eleanor scream
Shout loud for your own green world
Doors don't open for the country girl
Oh, they lied to you
They sung to you songs you weren't meant to hear
They showed you life your eyes were never meant to see
Yeah, you should have seen right through
But you believed

Eleanor grow, eleanor cold
Midnight in a dim-lit diner, in the driving detroit snow
Eleanor yearn, eleanor learn
One child with no last name
Your boyfriend runs who do you blame
Oh, he lied to you
He did to you things they taught you were sin
He took from you the best that was within you
He showed you things your eyes should never have seen
And the saddest thing of all, baby you believed
Yeah, yeah, the saddest thing of all, you believed
Yeah mama you believed

Eleanor age, eleanor cage
See california on new year's day
Sun shines warm on the rose parade
Eleanor ache, eleanor break
Come out west with your last born child
I grew up scared, weird, and wild
Oh you lied to me
You hid from me knowledge I should have known
You kept from me the life that was my own
You shielded me from things I should have seen
For a very short while mama, I believed...

Lyrics Everclear - Malevolent

Lyrics Everclear - Malevolent

Maybe I went too far this time I just go crazy when she says no
Angel turns away pulls her dress back down slowly washes her face
Takes the bus to her job downtown

She said, "I'm OK don't worry about me"
Now she thinks for herself, "Hey what happened to me?"

I told him that I thought it was over told him that I wanted to leave
He used to touch me so nice when we first met
I never dreamed he would hit me I never dreamed he would hold me down

She said, "Don't worry about me I won't worry about you"
"I don't want to be friends", she said, "I'm OK"
Just leave me alone, just leave me alone
She said, "Don't worry about me I won't worry about you"
She said, "I'm ok don't worry about me"

I don't want to be friends
Just leave me alone, just leave me alone
Don't worry about me, don't worry about me

Lyrics Everclear - A Beautiful Life

Lyrics Everclear - A Beautiful Life

You seem to make the same mistakes everyday
Sometimes its hard to open your eyes
You want to be the only cake on the table
Yeah, you say you don't like surprises
You want to find a pretty little place to stay
You just don't want to live and leave

I just want to be where the sun shines down
I just want to be where the sun shines down
I just want to be with you

Oh,
I really hate how you push me away
I do not like it when you shut me out
I say I love you but I really don't know you
I want to change you but I don't know how
I want to leave when it gets ugly and cold
I want to leave but I have no where to go

I just want to be where the sun shines down
Yeah, I just want to be where the sun shines down
On a beautiful life
I just want to find a beautiful life
I want to be where the sun shines down
I just want to find a beautiful life
I don't care where we go
I don't care where we go

You seem to make the same mistakes all the time
Sometimes it's not too hard to understand why
You say you hate the things you have done
Yeah, you have been running with your back to the sun
You want to find a place where you don't have to hide
You say you're just happy to be alive

I just want to be where the sun shines down
Yeah, I just want to be where the sun shines down
Yeah, yeah
I just want to be where the sun shines down
On a beautiful life
I just want to find a beautiful life
I just want to be where the sun shines down
I just want to find a beautiful life
I want to be where the sun shines down
I want to be where the sun shines down

I don't care where we go
I don't care what we do
As long as I can be with you
I just want to be with you

Lyrics Everclear - Our Lips Are Sealed

Lyrics Everclear - Our Lips Are Sealed

Can you hear them
They talk about us
They're telling lies
Well, that's no surprise
Can you see them
See right through them
Yeah that happens to you
Nothing gets through for you
Doesn't matter what they say
In the jealous games people play
Yes, our lips are sealed

When we walk by
Then we must chose
In our defense
Silence
When you look at them
Look right through them
That's when they'll disappear
That's when we'll be feared
Doesn't matter what they say
In the jealous games people play
Yes, our lips are sealed

Pay no mind to what they say
It doesn't matter anyway
Hey hey hey
Our lips are sealed

Hush my darling, don't you cry
Quiet, angel, forget their lies

Can you hear them
They talk about us
Telling lies, telling lies
That's no surprise
Can you see them
See right through them
Yeah that happens to you
Nothing gets through for you
Doesn't matter what they say
In the jealous games people play
Yes, our lips are sealed
Pay no mind to what they say
It doesn't matter anyway
Hey hey hey
Yes, our lips are sealed

Lyrics Everclear - Lame

Lyrics Everclear - Lame

Then they came on me
They dragged me from the bar
Still wet from sweat and beer

I bruise so prettily by men
Blinded by their fear, these men
Broke my back and made me lame

Then she said to me
"I'd give you everything to make it like before
To make you love me like you used to"

Make you love me more
She said to me
"Your life is large but your mind is lame"

I can't believe my eyes
When I see the truth
And all the things I've done

And every place, I'm queer
I never stay, I run
I know now why I live in shame

Lame
It's hard to sleep at night
I hardly ever sleep at night

Lyrics Everclear - Sick And Tired

Lyrics Everclear - Sick And Tired

I break every day stressed out in every kind of way
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired

All I need and crave is a loud life with the power to fade
I am living because I keep it all keep it all inside
Yeah I keep it all keep it all inside
Yeah I keep it all keep it all inside

Love won't work for me I want women who are out of my reach
I'm sick and tired of living all alone

All I need for sure is a big love with the power to make more
I am living because I keep it all, keep it all inside
Yeah, I keep it all, keep it all inside
Yeah, I keep it all, keep it all inside

I know I'm close to the fall
I know I'm dangerous
I'm afraid I'm going down
I blame my family, their damage is living in me
I am sick inside and tired of my life

All I need I swear is to go out with the power of a nightmare
I am living because I keep it all, keep it all inside
I keep it all, keep it all inside
Yeah, I keep it all, keep it all inside

I know I'm close to the fall
I know I'm dangerous
I know I'm not going down alone
I keep it all, keep it all inside
I know I'm close to the fall
I know I'm dangerous
I know I'm not going down alone
I'm not going down alone

Lyrics Everclear - Am Radio

Lyrics Everclear - Am Radio

(Clip of old radio broadcast:
[sung]KHJ Los Angeles!
[spoken] "Portions of today's programming are reproduced by means of
electrical transcriptions or tape recordings")
(Clip of Motown song "Mr. Big Star" fades into lyrics)
You can hear the music
Of the AM radio

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
Playin' 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 walkin' in style with a portable CD player
No you'd listen to the music on the

AM radio AM radio
Yeah you could hear the music on the
AM radio AM radio

Flashback, 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 cool
To buy the eight track tape
There wasn't any good time
To want to be inside
My mama want to 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 till 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 that radio down!"

(Spoken "Aw, Mom. Not that show again! I don't want to 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 getting 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 to
Santa Monica to 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
That I did not learn on the radio

Everything gets stupid and I just don't know
Where to find my happy I listen to my music on the
AM radio AM radio
You can hear the music on the
AM radio AM radio
You can hear the music on the
AM radio AM radio
(Spoken- "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 never liked disco
No never liked disco
No never liked disco
No never liked disco

Lyrics Everclear - Santa Ana Wind

Lyrics Everclear - Santa Ana Wind

I feel safe inside the violence
Like I feel safe inside a roller coaster car
I feel safe in the hills
Up above it all sometimes
In the middle of the night, I can almost see the stars

Living in L.A. makes me think of you
I think about the good times doing all the bad things we used to do
Walked the streets and I could remember why I feel so bad
Walked the streets at night, it helps sometimes to remember why

Living in L.A. feels like home in a brand new way
I am like everyone I meet,
I have ghosts in my mind they will never go away
I walked the streets at night to understand why I feel so bad
I walked the streets at night questioning why I am the way I am

We come from the somewhere lost time out in the cold
We run for the light, it's the only way we know
Wanna find a better sun, I wanna find a better world
Wanna find a better heart, so I can find me a better girl
Wanna find a place living inside of the violence and the rage
Of the Santa Ana wind on sunny day.

Living in L.A. it's the west coast where I have my head in the sand
Can't explain this place, if you're not from here you will never understand
I walk the streets at night
I think about all the lies that I've had
I walk the streets at night
I think about why I want the love that I can't have

We come from the somewhere lost out in the cold
We fight for the light, it's the only way we know
Wanna find a better sun, I wanna find a better life
I wanna find a better world, I wanna find a better life
Wanna find a place living inside of the violence and the rage
Of the Santa Ana wind on a beautiful day.

Yeah, it is the simple things that I love about this place
Sunshine and Mexican booze on Christmas day
Oh, the noise from the city is the only way I can fall asleep
I think I needed leave to realize that this is all,
This is where I'm supposed to be
Oh oh ooh

We come from the south, we're lost out in the cold
We fight for the light, it's the only way we know
Wanna find a better sun, I wanna find a better shine
Wanna find a better world, wanna find me a better life
I wanna find a place to hide inside the violence and the rage
Of the Santa Ana wind on a winter's day

I can almost see the future
I can almost see the blue sky in the middle of the day
Even though our hell is coming down around me now
My Santa Ana wind made the clouds all blow away

Lyrics Everclear - Blondes

Lyrics Everclear - Blondes

You are a loser just like I was
You are a loser like the rest of your friends
You're a loser in the worst way
I think you're losing just to make up

Yeah I've seen the light
All around your face

I see you dying in the highway
I see you climbing up the hill
I see your sunshine on your blond hair
I see you worshiping the thrill

Yeah I've seen the light
All around your face
Yeah I've seen the light
Shine in your eyes
Yeah I've seen the light
Light from another place
Now I know its not real
Yes I know it's not real...
Yes I know it's not

Yeah I've seen the light
All around your face
Yeah I've seen the light
Shine in your eyes
Yeah I've seen the light
From another place
Now I know it's not real...

Lyrics Everclear - American Girl

Lyrics Everclear - American Girl

Well she was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn't help thinkin' that there
Was a little more to life
Somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
Yeah, and if she had to die
Tryin' she had one little promise
She was gonna keep

[Chorus]
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl

It was kind of cold that night
She stood alone on her balcony
She could the cars roll by
Out on 441
Like waves crashin' in the beach

And for one desperate moment there
He crept back in her memory
God it's so painful
Something that's so close
And still so far out of reach

[Chorus]

Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all god damn night
She was an American girl

American girl
American girl
American girl
American girl
American girl

Lyrics Everclear - I Wanna Be Loved

Lyrics Everclear - I Wanna Be Loved

I just wanna be lost
In a crowded room
So I don't have to hear
Your point of view
You know I don't care
About what you say
And it's the way
You say it, too

So why did you come to me
When you knew mat you didn't believe
What did you expect to get from telling me
You don't understand
Anything or how I am
I just wanna be loved
I just wanna be loved by you
I wanna be loved
I just wanna be loved
I wanna be loved
Aaaaaaaahh

I just want to stay
Or way from me
With all your lies
I just don't believe

So why did you come to me
When you knew mat you didn't believe
What did you expect to get from telling me
You don't understand
Anything or how I am
I just wanna be loved
I just wanna be loved by you
I wanna be loved
I just wanna be loved
I wanna be loved
Aaaaaaaahh

You don't understand
You don't understand
You don't understand
I just wanna be loved
I just wanna be loved
I wanna be loved
I just wanna be loved by you
I wanna be loved
I just wanna be loved by you
I wanna be loved
I just wanna be loved by you
I wanna be loved
I wanna be loved
Aaaaaaaaaahhh

Lyrics Everclear - Thrift Store Chair

Lyrics Everclear - Thrift Store Chair

Baby go to bed
And put out the light
We both know
If we talk anymore
We are going to end up
In a great big fight

You can have your way again
Yeah you believe
What you want to believe

You can walk all over me tomorrow
But tonight
Can't we just pretend to sleep

I think we're headed for a big fall
I think we're headed for a bad time

I'm going to go downstairs
And sit in that chair you like

I want to put a John Prine record on
Yes I need to slow down for awhile

Yeah I wish we had never bought
A king size bed

The only damn thing
That it's ever been good for
Is plenty room for the real good sex

I lay in bed in the dark
And all that I can see
Is the distance that grows between us
You seem so far from me

Yes I think we are headed for a real big fall
I think we are headed for a bad time

I'm going to go downstairs
I'm gong to sit by myself
All alone in the middle of the night

I'm going to put a John Prine record on
I think we need to slow down for awhile

I'm going to go downstairs
Smoke cigarettes
In that thrift store chair you like

I'm gonna put a John Prine record on
I think we need to slow down for awhile

We need to slow down for awhile

Lyrics Everclear - Beautiful Dream

Lyrics Everclear - Beautiful Dream

Beautiful Dream

I had a dream I was living by the ocean
I had a dream I was living in the sun
I wake up sad because I'm living in darkness
I know I'm not alone
I know I'm not the only one

I had a dream that I had no depression
I had a dream I had a smile on my face
I wake up hungry so I feed my obsession
I know I gotta leave
I know I gotta run away

Far away
Where the faces all look happy and I know it's a dream
A beautiful dream
I want to loose myself in the sunshine where I can be free
Yeah I just wanna be free
Free in a beautiful dream
Yeah but it's a beautiful dream

I had a dream I was living by the ocean
I had a dream I was living for the day
I wake up sad in a perpetual emotion
I know I gotta leave here
I know I gotta run away

Far away
Where the faces all look happy and I know it's a dream
A beautiful dream
I want to loss myself in myself where I can be free
I just wanna be free
Free in a beautiful dream
Yeah a beautiful dream
Free inside a beautiful dream
Free in a beautiful dream

Lyrics Everclear - Bad Connection

Lyrics Everclear - Bad Connection

Morning, this morning the curtains are shut
I'd ring you in the morning but the phone's been cut
Can you hear me, I've been calling all day
Can you hear me
The radio reporter said the line's all dead
He told me that I oughta write a letter instead
Can you hear me, I've been calling all day
Can you hear me
Yes I'd wish they'd fix the wires cause my baby won't know
That I'm leaving in the morning and I'm ready to go
Can you hear me
Can you hear me at all
Gotta get the operator, make a telephone call
And if I write a letter it won't get there on time
I'll only reach you baby on the telephone line
Can you hear me, I've been calling all day
Can you hear me
My car's all ready and my bags are all packed
I'm late already and I won't be back
Can you hear me, I've been calling all day
Can you hear me
chorus 3x
Can you hear me at all?

Lyrics Everclear - Deep In, Empty Out

Lyrics Everclear - Deep In, Empty Out

Yeah I hear the hum in my ear
It keeps me awake sometimes
I can deal with most everything
I'm out of my mind
When you're out of my side
I would give everything
Deep in and empty out
I would give everything you want
Everything you need
Why can't you talk to me
I hear your voice everywhere else
Oh, why do you have to be
Slumped and drunk
Just to say I am your friend
I'd give you everything
Yeah, I'm deep in and empty out
Oh, I would give everything you want
Everything you need
Everything means nothing to me
I remember now
You, not me
I remember now
You fail
Yeah, I remember now
You, not me
I remember everything, everything
Yeah, yeah
I remember everything, everything
I would give everything
Yeah, deep in and empty out
I would give everything you want
Anything to you
Everything means nothing
Yeah, everything means nothing
Yeah, everything means nothing to me
It's true
My everything means nothing to you
It's true

Lyrics Everclear - All Fucked Up

Lyrics Everclear - All Fucked Up

I am all fucked up
And I am ready to break
I don't wanna be the guy
Who is always on the outside
I wanna find my own
Good place

All fucked up
And I don't know how
How I ever got to where I feel
Like I am dying on the inside
I want to be happy
But I don't know how

I am all fucked up
And it's always the same
I always get so close,
Then I let it get away
I got no one but
Myself to blame

I'm all fucked up
And I don't know why
If the rest of my life
Is going to be like this
Think I would rather die
I am all fucked up

Yes, I am all fucked up
You're happy
When you are all fucked up
Yes, I am all fucked up

I am all fucked up
Yes, I am ready to break
I don't wanna be the guy
Who is always on the outside
I wanna find my own
Good place

All fucked up
And I don't know how
How I ever got to where I feel
Like I'm dying on the inside
I want to be happy now

I am all fucked up
And it is always the same
I always get so close
Then I let it get away
I got no one but
Myself to blame

I am all fucked up
And I don't know why
If the rest of my life
Is going to be like this
Than I think I would rather die
I am all fucked up

Lyrics Everclear - Trust Fund

Lyrics Everclear - Trust Fund

I know a couple who are in love living in the best of times
A truer love you will never know
Right next to a pain they'll never realize
Sheltered from it in a loving glow
Young and happy and oh so politically correct

Just get it if you need it now
Just go buy it if you need it in your life
Don't you worry if it all runs out
Don't worry because it never will

I know a young girl living in the shadow of the kind of life that she
Could never make
She takes it all and gives it back in love to handsome artists in her
Native state
She is the angel of the loser and the disenchanted soul

Just get it if you need it now
Just buy it if it makes you happy
Don't you worry if it all runs out
Don't worry because it never will
Just get it if you need it now
I know a couple who are in love living in the best of times