The Ataris - So Long, Astoria lyrics
- So Long, Astoria
- Takeoffs And Landings
- In This Diary
- My Reply
- Unopened Letter To The World
- The Saddest Song
- Summer '79
- The Hero Dies In This One
- All You Can Ever Learn Is What You Already Know
- The Boys Of Summer
- Radio #2
- Looking Back On Today
- Eight Of Nine
- I Won't Spend Another Night Alone
- The Saddest Song (Acoustic)
So Long, Astoria
It was the first snow of the season,
I can almost see you breathing in the middle of that empty street.
Sometimes I still see myself in that lonesome bedroom,
playing my guitar and singing songs of hope for a better future
Life is only as good as the memories we make,
and I'm taking back what belongs to me
Polaroids of classrooms unattended,
these relics of rememberence are just like shipwrecks,
only they're gone faster than the smell after it rains
Last night while everyone was sleeping,
I drove through my old neighborhood
and resurrected memories from ashes
We said that we would never fit in,
when we were really just like them-
Does rebellion ever make a difference?
Life is only as good as the memories we make,
and I'm taking back what belongs to me
Polaroids of classrooms unattended,
these relics of rememberence are just like shipwrecks,
only they're gone faster than the smell after it rains
So long Astoria! I found a map to buried treasure,
and even if we come home empty handed, we'll still have our
stories of battle scars, pirate ships and wounded hearts,
broken bones and all the best of friendships.
And when this hourglass has filtered out its' final grain of sand,
I raise my glass to the memories we had
This is my wish and I'm taking it back, I'm taking them all back.
Takeoffs And Landings
On this coldest of January nights,
we'll drive out past the runway,
And watch the planes go flying by.
The runway lights are the deepest blue
Like the colors of your eyes,
So close them tight and kiss me one last time.
If you could go anywhere right now, where would you go,
And would you miss me when you get there.
There's no place that I would rather be.
Please don't let me, go falling from the sky,
This fasten seatbelt sign just needs to go out.
If only you could be, right here by my side,
Home wouldn't seem so far from here.
Passport, customs, carry-on, remember
To shut off all of your, electronic devices.
fell asleep on Tuesday, woke up Monday afternoon
I slept right through your international dateline
If you could go anywhere right now,
Where would you go,
And would you miss me when you get there.
There's no place that I would rather be
Please don't let me, go falling from the sky,
This fasten seatbelt sign just needs to go out.
If only you could be, right here by my side,
Home wouldn't seem so far from here.
Please don't let me, go falling from the sky,
This fasten seatbelt sign just needs to go out.
If only you could be, right here by my side,
Home wouldn't seem so far from here.
Please don't let me, go falling from the sky,
This fasten seatbelt sign just needs to go out.
If only you could be, right here by my side,
Home wouldn't seem so far from here.
In This Diary
Here in this diary I write you visions of my summer
It was the best I ever had
There were choruses and sing alongs
And that unspoken feeling of knowing
That right now is all that matters
All the nights we stayed up talking
Listening to 80's songs
And quoting lines from all those movies that we love
It still brings a smile to my face
I guess when it comes down to it
Being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up
These are the best days of our lives
The only thing that matters is just following your heart
And eventually you'll finally get it right
Breaking into hotel swimming pools
And wreaking havoc on our world
Hanging out at truck stops
Just to pass the time
The blacktop singing me to sleep
Lighting fireworks in parking lots
Illuminate the blackest nights
Cherry cokes under this moonlit summer sky
2015 Riverside, it's time to say goodbye
Get on the bus, it's time to go
Being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up
These are the best days of our lives
The only thing that matters is just following your heart
And eventually you'll finally get it right
(Get it right)
Being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up
These are the best days of our lives
The only thing that matters is just following your heart
And eventually you'll finally get it right
My Reply
I got your letter and the poetry you sent me
Postmarked in December of last year
I really hope you're doing better
All your friends close by your side
One step closer to recovery
I wish there was something I could say
To erase each and every page you've been through
even though it's not my place to save you
I appreciate but can't accept this thank you note
that's sealed with your last breath
and I won't stand aside and listen to you give up
If you'll just hold on for one more second
if you just hold on to what you have
just hold on/just hold on
You will wake up tomorrow
If you'll just hold on for one more second
if you just hold on to what you have
just hold on/just hold on
You will wake up tomorrow
These arms remain stretched out to you
maybe someday you'll accept them
maybe it's too late to save
a young girl's heart that's long stopped beating
Wake up wake up you've gotta believe
wake up wake up you can't give up
time keeps going on without us
long after we're dead and gone
I wish there was something I could say
to erase each and every page you've been through
even though it's not my place to save you
I appreciate but can't accept this thank you note
that's sealed with your last breath
and I won't stand aside and listen to you give up
If you'll just hold on for one more second
just hold on to what you have
if you just hold on/just hold on
if you'll just hold on for one more second
just hold on to what you have
if you just hold on/just hold on
Unopened Letter To The World
If I died tomorrow would this song live on forever?
Here is my...unopened letter to a world
that never shall reply
If I died tomorrow would this song live on forever??
Here is my� unopened letter to a world
that never shall reply, never shall reply
From this second story window I can hear the church bells
calling out my name. This table is set for one.
Even angels would be homesick in this forsaken town.
On random notes of parchment I'm scrawling my existence,
Dressed in white. This candle radiates throughout the night
And it's never burning out, Never burning out
From this second story window I can hear the children
down on Main Street. They're singing their songs tonight.
In the shadows, I will listen to their every movement.
Mr. Higginson, Am I not good enough for the world?
Am I destined only to die the same way that I lived...
In seclusion.
From high up on this mountain I can almost see
your lonely windowsill. They'll carry you off tonight.
There's a ghost in your old bedroom
And a candle burning bright.
If I died tomorrow
Would this song live on forever?
The Saddest Song
Only two more days until your birthday,
yesterday was mine.
You'll be turning five.
I know what it's like
growing up without your father in your life.
So I pretend I'm doing all I can
and hope someday you'll find it in your heart
to understand why I'm not around
and forgive me for not being in your life.
I remember waiting for you to come.
Remember waiting for you to call.
Remember waiting there to find nothing at all.
Maybe someday you'll really get to know me
not just from letters read to you.
I pray I get the chance to make it up to you.
We've got a lot of catching up to do.
Summer '79
Our last day of summer, 1979
We gotta live up one time before it's over
We will make history tonight
Out at the drive-in
All of our closest friends will be sneaking in
You'll be spending your whole night
Trying everything you can to get that girl to notice you
We are the champions playing loud on the radio station
Everyone sing along with these anthems of our generation
Cruising down Pacific Coast Highway
Put the top down, crawl into the back seat
Let's create anthems of our own tonight
Down at the roller rink
All the cool kids crowding around the air hockey table
Hey, my best friend likes you
I hear you shout at me as you go skating by
We are the champions playing loud on the radio station
Everyone sing along with these anthems of our generation
Cruisin down Pacific Coast Highway
Put the top down, crawl into the back seat
Let's create anthems of our own tonight
Sneak out of the window, darling
Let's live like outlaws, honey
We'll never look back
Climb out on this rooftop
And stare at the city lights below us
This world belongs to us tonight
The kids will keep raging on and they ain't ever gonna stop
We are the champions playing loud on the radio station
Everyone sing along with these anthems of our generation
Cruisin down Pacific Coast Highway
put the top down, crawl into the back seat
Let's create anthems of our own tonight
The Hero Dies In This One
As I leave here today
Apartment 108
I'll always keep you in my heart.
Anderson is cold tonight,
the leaves are scattered on the ground.
I miss the seasons in the comfort of your smile.
Sometimes this song feels like a dream,
I'm waiting for someone just to wake me up from this life.
As I look out on these fairgrounds,
I remember how our family split apart.
I don't think I ever told you,
but I know you always did your best
in the hard times that only made us stronger.
As I sit here all alone,
I wonder how I'm supposed to carry on
when you're gone.
I'll never be the same without you,
I love you more than you will ever know.
So maybe now you finally know
sometimes we're helpless and alone,
but you can't let it keep you weighted down.
You must go on.
Do you ever feel like crying?
Do you ever feel like giving up?
I raise my hands up towards the sky
and say this prayer for you tonight,
because nothing is impossible.
As I sit here all alone,
I wonder how I'm supposed to carry on
when you're gone.
I'll never be the same without you,
I love you more than you will ever know.
So maybe now you finally know:
sometimes we're helpless and alone,
but you can't let it keep you weighted down.
You must go on.
The hardest part isn't finding what we need to be,
it's being content with who we are.
Stay who you are.
All You Can Ever Learn Is What You Already Know
Is this how it was intended?
The sunrise over smokestacks in the Midwest.
the beauty of this abandoned factory.
Christmas lights blinking on and off all
out of time in what used to be,
Your pink house dreams of a middle class America.
I'm trying to believe in you, but all these satellites
and shattered dreams are blocking out my view.
Please don't forget who you really are,
'cause nothing really matters when we're gone.
Fell in love with his Keno waitress
They honeymooned in Memphis,
they were married by the drive-up window.
Trailer parks, neon signs, and an empty box of Lucky Strikes
all used up on the dashboard of America.
I'm trying to believe in you but
this world sold its faith for parking lots and drunk sincerity.
Please don't forget who you really are,
'cause nothing really matters when we're...
You'll be saddened to know, the train tracks
you once walked as a young boy
are now nothing but a graveyard.
Please don't forget how small we really are,
nothing really matters when we're gone.
Nothing really matters
I'm trying to believe in you.
The Boys Of Summer
Nobody on the road
Nobody on the beach
I feel it in the air
The summer's out of reach
Empty lake, empty streets
The sun goes down alone
I'm drivin' by your house
Though I know you're not at home
I can see you
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
You got your hair combed back and your sunglasses on, baby
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone
I never will forget those nights
I wonder if it was a dream
Remember how you made me crazy?
Remember how I made you scream?
I don't understand what happened to our love
But baby when i get you back
I'm gonna show you what I'm made of
I can see you
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
I see you walkin' real slow and you're smilin' at everyone
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone
Out on the road today
I saw a BLACK FLAG sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice inside my head said, "Don't look back, You can never look back."
I thought I knew what love was
What did I know?
Those days are gone forever
I should just let them go but
I can see you
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
You got that top pulled down and that radio on, baby
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone
I can see you
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
You got that hair slicked back and those Wayfarers on, baby
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone
Radio #2
Not found
Looking Back On Today
30th of April, seems like yesterday
Bought a house above the ocean
Where our kids could laugh and play
I called you from Paris
To tell you that I
Wrote our names on the observation deck
Of the Eiffel Tower
Remember those nights playing summer wind
on the jukebox of the bar we used to go
We made out in the bathroom
and you walked me to my house
I try to convince you not to go home
If only I had more time
I'd take you where you wanted to go
Italy isn't the same without you here
If only I had one wish
I'd want a million trillion life times that I could spend with you
I'd Fall in love with you again and again
First of November 1998
I was thinking of what to say when I would call
Denise come over to my house cause you're the one for me
We'll drink cheap wine and watch for shooting stars
Remember our first apartment
Our couch was never big enough for two
Still we'd fall asleep in each other�s arms
and wake up on the floor
Now looking back it was made for me and you
If only I had more time
I'd take you where you wanted to go
Japan is really nice this time of year
If only I had one wish
I'd want a million trillion life times that I could spend with you
I'd Fall in love with you again and again
Eight Of Nine
These hospital walls are the palest of white
Here in this desert they're reciting my last rights
The smell of these halls brings temporary comfort
As oxygen flows through my blood
El Coraz�n was poisoned tonight
She's on her 8 of 9
When half of all your prayers are insincere
The other half are lies
Here is this watermark under this bridge
The point where it crested
Rolled back and drifted into the sea
I climb from this wreckage
As the smoke begins to clear from my lungs
The closest of close calls has happened tonight
It's time that I made things right
for the first time since the last time
Let this moment of clarity
lift this curse that has been cast upon me
So appreciate the good times,
but don't take the worst for granted
Because you only get so many second chances
I Won't Spend Another Night Alone
A star up in the sky goes slowly passing by
The lights below...they spell out your name.
You're comfort on my mind and you're with me all the time.
And lots of feelings that I can't explain.
I won't spend another night alone.
I won't spend another night alone.
Out of every girl I meet, no other can compete
I'd ditch 'em all for a night with you.
I know you don't believe you mean this much to me
But I promise you that you do.
If I had one wish this is what it would be...
I'd ask you to spend all your time with me,
That we'd be together forever.
We'd buy a small house in south central L.A.
Raise lots of kids then we'd both join a gang
Just as long as we're together.
The things you make me wanna do
I'd rob a quik-e mart for you
I'd go to the pound and let all the cats go free
Just as long as you'd be with me.
I won't spend another night alone.
I won't spend another night alone.
...Yeah....
The Saddest Song (Acoustic)
Only two more days until your birthday,
yesterday was mine.
You'll be turning five.
I know what it's like
growing up without your father in your life.
So I pretend I'm doing all I can
and hope someday you'll find it in your heart
to understand why I'm not around
and forgive me for not being in your life.
I remember waiting for you to come.
Remember waiting for you to call.
Remember waiting there to find nothing at all.
I remember waiting for you to come.
Remember waiting for you to call.
Waiting there to find nothing at all.
Maybe someday you'll really get to know me
not just from letters read to you.
I pray I get the chance to make it up to you.
We've got a lot of catching up to do.
So I pretend I'm doing all I can
and hope someday you'll find it in your heart
to understand why I'm not around
and forgive me for not being in your life.
I remember waiting for you to come.
Remember waiting for you to call.
Remember waiting there to find nothing at all.
I remember waiting (waiting for you to come) for you to come.
Remember waiting for you to call.
Waiting there to find nothing at all.
I remember waiting for you to come.
waiting for you to come
I remember (waiting for you to come)
Forgive me, I'm so sorry.
I will make it up to you.