All of these songs are by Caroline's Spine. I love this band, they're awesome! And they're like the only cool band from Oklahoma, (where I live) so for me, that's cool.
WallflowerI could have died,
Maybe I should have died
When I saw you walk inside
And has you shut the door
I put my eyes back on the floor,
When all I really wanted was
To look some more.
Does a wallflower play
Or does a wallflower stay on his wall?
You see, I live alone,
But I've made my happy home
All my furniture is centered around my phone
And I'm waiting for a call,
my imaginary friends and all
Those who would never let me be taken by the fall.
Does a wallflower know
When it's time he outgrow his wall?
Only time has feelings for me
maybe Father Time feels sorry for me
there was a time when I knew it all
why don't I ever leave my wall?
Why don't I ever leave my wall?
You know, that siren's getting louder
and these people are
Starting to crowd in on me.
All I smell and taste is garlic and gunpoweder
Cause I shot the bad guy dead,
But he got me in the head
Oh, with the girl of my dreams,
She's mentioning to me how much I've bled.
Where do the wallflowers go
When their flowers get pulled from the wall?
Though she says I'm brave and bold
she knows a flower cannot hold up a wall
I can't hold up this wall any longer...
Any longer...
Cause all I have is time and time and time...
Please some more time
Hippie BoyMy hippie boy don't want to be a man,
My hippie boy don't want to understand,
My hippie boy lives in a Volkswagon van.
My hippie boy don't know how to communicate
He says he knows love that knows no hate
My hippie boy leaves his life up to fate
Yeah, he's my hippie boy.
My hippie boy don't know his own feelings
Wants to draw flowers on my ceiling
I think my hippie boy is trying to do me in.
My hippie boy won't follow the commandments
Don't follow laws, he don't follow government.
My hippie boy wants to start his own settlement.
Yeah, he's my hippie boy.
He said, "...come sit beside me.
Tell me about the things you adore.
And please don't remind me
that I am not the boy you'd hoped for."
My hippie boy won't get up off his ass
He don't care if he fail or if he pass
My hippie boy... I know he's been smoking grass.
My hippie boy don't even know where to begin
He says he wasn't put on this earth to fit in
and my hippie boy got his momma sticking up for him.
She's always sticking up for him.
Yeah, he's my hippie boy.
My hippie boy left our lives to join a band
says his band plays throughout the land
My hippie boy bought his mom a car for twenty grand.
They say he's putting our town up on the map
The mayor called this morning for a photograph
And all the kids are asking me for my autograph
'Cause of my hippie boy...
King For a DayI'm lost,
hearing all the things we say,
looks like another day of wasting life.
I need a simple place where I can go and
my face won't be shown for a long time.
All I want is an ice cream cone, a convertible car,
and a country home in the hills and you know why.
Things the way they are make me sit right here and cry.
I'm lost,
seeing all the things we see
Can't be right for me.
They say I'm blind.
They're making fun of my shoes,
Making fun of my shorts,
Making fun of my shirt,
It just blows my mind.
If you follow, I'll cherish us
and we'll never be alone.
But if you turn me down,
I'm gonna leave your ass at home
so now I got my way, I crowned myself king for a day
and I finally got to implement my changes.
I wake up in the trees with my queen next
to me cause a king needs to know his place.
So now I got my ice cream cone,
My convertible car,
And my country home in the hills,
And you by my side.
And now I'm so board,
I'll sit right here and cry.
Yes, I cry.
On the GroundYou see it coming in the distance.
You don't know what to do.
If you let it pass by your dream, maybe through.
I say grab it while you can, hold tight, with both hands.
You are shaken on the winding road
as your face hits the ground.
Stopping here is all you can think, as it echos all around.
Jump back on your feet again
climb high on that beast until you win.
You see it in the distance you see it fading fast.
That dream is now a memory, a figment of the past.
Could you have been the best?
No one knows cause you stayed
Behind with the rest of us,
On the ground,
Staring at the sky,
wishing one more chance would pass us by
... as for the rest of us on the ground -
we'll grab that beast and climb high,
but until that day its the rest of us
on the ground.
SullivanIts not hard to reach back to the day
underneath an Iowa sun
running to the tower of Waterloo
Waiting for the Sullivan train to come
His five boys would run to the top
And salute him as he went by
first he'd wave hello, and then we'd wave goodbye.
Goodbye...
Its not hard to reach back to the days
after the attack on Pearl
and overnight my buddies turned into men
running out of time for games and girls.
The Sullivan boys were not overlooked
Uncle Sam called them each by name.
The very next day they left on a mystery train.
So say goodbye, bye bye,
Mrs. Sullivan.
Don't you cry, cry, cry, cry
"...we regret to inform you,
the Navy has taken your sons away..."
All five, five, five, five...
so put your blue star in the window.
It's not hard to reach back to her smile
when she'd receive a letter.
Their letters sounded generally the same,
They said if they couldn't be home,
At least they were together
on a mighty fighting battleship,
somewhere in the south pacific.
The letters never got much more specific.
Say goodbye, bye, bye
Mrs. Sullivan.
Don't you cry, cry, cry, cry
"...we regret to inform you
The Navy is keeping your sons away"
All five, five, five, five
So keep your blue star in the window.
It's nothard to reach back to the day
When the war finally came home
Uncle Sam will send you a telegram,
so he doesn't have to tell you over the phone.
I heard she cracked up
When she found what the war had cost.
All five of her boys were lost.
They were...
They were...
Say goodbye, bye, bye
Mrs. Sullivan.
Go ahead and cry, cry, cry, cry
"...we regret to inform you
That all your sons have passed away."
All five, five, five, five
So change your blue star to gold.
Blue star to gold...
Blue star...
Change them to gold.