Superstar Car Wash

If you never had it then,
You don't know how bad it is.
There is nothing like it, well,
Needless talk then, I can tell. Here comes the day, I sit and wait.
Always, always something.
The bills keep coming, the car ain't running.
Now I'm coming home again.
Another day,
Oh, the mailman's on his way
Just sit and wait.
Always pondering my fate too late,
Another day goes.
(BACKGROUND):
Dominoes are falling still, as I know they always will
Dominoes a test of will, dominoes

I bought them from you yesterday,
Little ??? that you have made.
No one minds I can tell.
Seems I've hit the ones you shall.

I called you up all night til mornin',
Left my house by noon today, and I saw you standing there.
No one spoke, but we both listened.
Heard every word you didn't say.
And the sunshine's all around us,
Smells like summer's on the way, and I saw you standing there.
Tell the story of a lifetime,
Tomorrow brings a brand new day.

Don't worry 'bout today, and the words that you said.
Don't worry 'bout today, shake the world from your head.
At least for a while.

You see the day keeps getting longer,
But my nights seem longer still, and my TV's off the air.
Watching repeats on my ceiling,
Another hour left to kill.

If I could walk a straight mile,
I could write it down in shorthand, I could show you.
If you want me to.
And if I had an hourglass,
I'd save the grains of time I spent with you
That's what I'd do.
But I remember, you always said it could be great.
And I knew It could be.
Well there's a way you look at things,
That no one needs to know but you.
And you shared it with me.
Like every time the leaves would fall,
You promised me that they'd be back again.
And I believed in you.

You always said it could be great.
But I had no time too waste, now it seems that I've come too far.

As bright as you are don't get burned by your lucky star.
Bright as you are don't get burned by your lucky star.

Written down in hard-bound books,
The way things used to be, they ain't for me.
I'd swear they're all for you.
We said sugar, gramps said shoot,
Her mom said shit, I don't know what she'll do.
As if it's up to you.

As bright as you are don't get burned by your lucky star.
Bright as you are don't get burned by your lucky star.
Your lucky star will burn ya.
Your lucky star will turn you 'round.
They're gonna turn you around

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.

I look outside my window,
everything was blanketed in white.
The neighbors pushing cars,
Out from snow that fell on us last night.
I started thinking,
Bout the things we used to do when we were young.
Back when things were simple,
getting up was fun.

I couldn't care, cuz I'm already there.
I'm already there, and I'm ready there.

Turn around and face the clock,
I'd sit and watch, as time went hoppin' by.
I'm still growing up,
My friends are growing old before my eyes.
Count the stars above,
Wonder when the heavens will subside.
Knowing our two worlds,
Will someday just collide.

Just a boy who's young at heart,
His smile was a bit like yours today.
Had a wife, a kid, some strife,
Never had to go astray.
Happiness evolved,
Life was in full swing,
At 17, all the things he wanted,
were things he'd never seen.

It don't seem fair, cuz I'm already there.
I'm already there, and I'm ready there.

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.