Superstar Car Wash

Why do you stare me down?
Am I wrong, should I turn and kiss the ground?
And I never felt that way
I ain't the one and you know I ain't from such a place

And I didn't get those things
Things that you can't grow
You say that it's all my fault
And I don't need to know

Tell me something I don't know
And I'll find that I'm always looking 'round behind me
You say that it's all been said before
Now I find that there's something I don't know

And I hate your attitude
I ain't scared at all
cuz it don't matter what you do
And I'll turn around to see the truth
You're tearing it down, ya you're bringing it down
and it's all on you
Am I wrong
I don't know
And I say that
if you break enough glass
and there's no one to hear in your heart full of hate
but your mind's full of fear, let it go

so far away (3x)

He burnt down the house one night,
He had a loaded six-pack gun.
He said that Jesus Christ was just like a cop,
You know, you never know when they'll come.
She said every day above ground,
Was another dream come true.
He said I'd hang and swap clichés all night,
But I'm not in love with you.

And I never got serious,
Til everything went black.
And I ain't so curious,
That I'm ever going back.

On the lie.

He said, man, you want to be Elvis.
I said I ain't dying face down.
He said you've got to die facing up in the world,
cuz there's too many holes around.
He asked what was wrong with me,
He said I looked like a Hollywood girl.
I said that Hollywood can fall into the ocean, man,
Cuz it's the ugliest place in the whole wide world.

On the lie, he was.
On the lie, she was.
It's always a stinkin' lie

Happy, smilin', cryin' upwards to my past,
I guess those stormy gray skies simply couldn't last.
And now I find myself a-tugging at your dress.
The fun of holding you down, or seeing you frown is never gonna pass.

Somewhere there's a place a soul can never go,
Gray-like stormy skies I hoped you didn't know.
All our postcards full of things I won't forget.
And now it's coming down, that laughing clown is all I ever get.

Another second time around.
I've been runnin' from ya
another second time around.
Another second, one more second time,
I waited for ya, another second time around.

Couldn't help myself,
I felt like everything was gonna pass.
It was an awkward time,
I hoped it wouldn't, hoped it couldn't last.

And I didn't know exactly what to say,
About the things you saw me do my evil way.
And I know you're lyin', cryin' in your bed.
Well I'm all tired out, so wired out, it's ringing in my head.

You whispered in my mouth,
And I spit you words right back.
How good do you think I'll look,
When the words start to break and crack.

You beat your head upon your wall,
You disconnect yourself from it all.
Cuz you know that you're so beautiful and so untouchable,
And I want to get in so bad, and I don't know how.

Cuz your gone, and you ain't coming back.
Yeah you're gone, and you ain't coming back.

You held your hand so close,
And I just can't push you away.
I wished you could be my girl,
But you're stuck in your own world.

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Yeah you're gone, and I wish you'd come back.

You need someone to hold you,
You need something that you ain't been getting.
Yeah, I could be the one,
To tell you what to do, but it don't mean nothing.
And you're holding on forever,
But that something just ain't true.
I'm just like you,
And I know, it's what I'd do.
Here I go.

Cuz I could stop the world, cuz I love you.
I could stop the world, and I don't want to.
I could stop the world, and I won't.
Cuz it ain't enough.

You had another bad day,
You let me know that you just can't take it.
I've given up on you,
You live in truth and I know I can't fake it.
Cuz the stars you see,
Are on a dirty sidewalk.
And they ain't for wishing new
If they don't come true.
And I know, it's what I'd do.
Here I go.

I'm not too young for the world.
And I can't change for the world.
I don't care for the world.
(in back)I don't need to stop the world.
It don't make sense, the world.

You changed my face,
I think I like it better now.
It doesn't matter anyhow, cuz that's the way it is.
You said hello,
Well where the hell you been?
I said I feel like I've been off to war,
and I may never be the same again.

I made my bed,
And now I can't sleep at night.
Cause I'm tossin and turnin you know, you know it ain't right.
I'd love to beg,
See, but I'm just too proud.
And I don't even know what to say, so I'm thinking out loud.

And when you dream 17,
I ain't there, so I don't care.
Cuz in all my dreams, I'm 23,
And she's the girl right next to me.
See that girl right next to me.

I lie in my bed,
You're running through my head.
Going over and over and over, the things that you said.
I'm caught in a trap,
I'll run like hell right back to you.
Cuz I'm sober with you and you know it beats drinking alone.

I've got no politics, no influential friend or two.
I've got ideas, but it's nothing I picked up at school.
I might be running, but I'm never running back to you.
And here's a letter from the real world, I don't expect your reply.
And anything you're gonna tell me, It's just another lie.

I had to wait so long, the weeks and months that passed me by.
You've got no power and my situations don't apply.
You ask me how I am, I lie and say I'm doing fine.
And with your sugar-sweetened alibis, there was a truth I never knew.
And all the attitude you gave me, It's coming back to you.

String of lies, it's always compromise with you.
String of lies, you know there's nothing left to do.
String of lies, it's been a string of lies with you.
And here's a letter from the real world, I don't expect your reply.
And anything you're gonna tell me, It's just another lie.