Pumpkin Songs Lyrics

The ten years sober lady

At the Circle K

Asked Sarah where she got her

Vintage Pearl Jam T-shirt

She said it was my dad′s

He and my mom

Got engaged at this concert

She was already pregnant with me

And they were travelling the country

In a 79 RV

Got married in Bellingham

And my dad gave up

Being in a band

My mom joined the Army

To bring in more money

The cashier said life's funny that way

What are your family and you doing Christmas day?

Sarah said when I was muffin

It was just me and my dad

He drove a Greyhound bus

From Portland

To Vancouver

Got a scholarship to private school

Where the rich kids were really cruel

Called my dad a loser

When they made fun of my soldier mom

Punched the girls in the face and

Knocked them down

That Christmas my dad bought me my

First set of drums

Said you won′t get suspended

And they're a lot more fun

My dad would take out his guitar

And we would play

The very first song he taught me was

Today is the greatest day

The Smashing Pumpkins are as old as my father

Soundgarden reminds me of my mother

The Smashing Pumpkins are as old as my father

Soundgarden reminds me of my mother

At night I turn the lights down dim

Put on my headphones and listen to them

Took my dad away

But I get to see him next Christmas day

When I was nine

My mother got shipped off to Iraq

When I turned eleven

My dad said baby polar bear

She's not coming back

My mother dying

Took my dad to dark places

He′s never been before

He got hooked on Oxy

Got arrested trying to score

Took me and my sister away

Into foster care

But I wrote my dad everyday

Signed always

Your baby polar bear

The Smashing Pumpkins remind me of my father

Soundgarden reminds me of my mother

Me and my half-sister

Turn our amps up loud

And the lights down dim

Play along to my dad′s records

Cause next Christmas we get to see him

He's been away

For far too long

The only way

I got through

Was listening to Smashing Pumpkin songs

All the way through high school

I barely held on

Dropped out with a semester to go

Moved out of Bellingham

My dad said in a letter

Get your GED

Pick yourself up

Your mom′s strengths inside you

Before long you'll see me

This is the last Christmas

My sis and I will spend alone

Cause next summer my dad

Finally gets out on parole

And when I was 12

I planted an evergreen

To cut down the Christmas he comes home

The Smashing Pumpkins remind me of my father

Soundgarden reminds me of my mother

Me and my half-sister

Turn our amps up loud

And the lights down dim

Play along to my dad′s records

Cause next Christmas we get to see him

The Smashing Pumpkins remind me of my father

Soundgarden reminds me of my mother

Me and my half-sister

Turn our amps up loud

And the lights down dim

Play along to my dad's records

Cause next Christmas we get to see him