Paradise Shitty Lyrics

Paradise Shitty - The Lawrence Arms

Save a song for me to sing,

boy, if I wanna play a song tonight

Is there something I could wail out

if I wanna wail by candlelight?

I'm feeling sick

I'm feeling old

I'm feeling weak

I feel that snow

Down in my knees

Down in my soul

In place of guts I've got a hole

Like everybody else I've ever known

Baby, this ain't home to me,

no matter what they say

The grass is too damn green here

and the hearts are dull and grey

So take me down to that city

where the girls just look okay

It's about all I can take

I've stood too long in one place

Strap me to the station wagon roof

and drive me out into the hills

It may sound like I'm screaming from the car

but I'm just screaming from the thrill

I'm so alive

I'm so afraid

That I've been wasting what's left of these days

These days I feel with a cold heart

It's easier to keep it hard

Just grab your shit and meet me in the yard

Baby, this ain't home to me,

no matter what they say

The grass is too damn green here

and the hearts are dull and grey

So take me down to that city

where the girls just look okay

It's about all I can take

I've stood too long in one place

Lollipop dreams and candycane waves

Are gonna hurt like hell when they crumble away

Because a beautiful youth hurts worst when it dies

A rotten reminder of the days

we decided we'd rather go big and then rot away

We'd give into love and wind up castaways

We said "fuck all the old boring shits we've become"

So we hoarded our dreams and we burnt every one

And fuck me, man, I knew not what I'd done

Fuck us, man, we knew not what we'd done

Man, we were just having some fun

Baby, this ain't home to me,

no matter what they say

The grass is too damn green here

and the hearts are dull and grey

So take me down to that city

where the girls just look okay

It's about all I can take

I've stood too long in one place