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American Hi-Fi lyrics
Album: The Art of Losing [2003]
| The Art of Losing | |
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Whoa..
Last call now I'm out of time
And I don't got no valentine
Singled out now stand alone
The underdog at a modern world
Suburbia's hot tonight
Nothing seems to feel alright
I don't want your sympathy
I just need a little therapy
At least that's what they say to me
Hey ho, let's go
I'm gonna start a riot
You don't wanna fight it
1,2 fuck you
Don't tell me what to do
I don't wanna be like you
Can't you see it's killing me
I'm my own worst enemy
knock me down, I'll keep on moving
It's the art of losing
Whoa..
Said Come over, do what you're told
Get a job and start growing old
9-5 can make your dreams come true
But I don't wanna be like you
I'm not cool and I'll never be
I break the rules and I guarantee
I don't want your sympathy
I just need a little therapy
At least that's what they say to me
Hey ho, let's go
I'm gonna start a riot
You don't wanna fight it
1,2 fuck you
Don't tell me what to do
I don't wanna be like you
Can't you see it's killing me
I'm my own worst enemy
knock me down, I'll keep on moving
It's the art of losing
You call me a loser
You say I'm just a user
But I'll just keep a movin'
Cause that's the art of losing
Whoa...
...2,3,4!
Hey ho, let's go
I'm gonna start a riot
You don't wanna fight it
1,2 fuck you
Don't tell me what to do
I don't wanna be like you
Can't you see it's killing me
I'm my own worst enemy
knock me down, I'll keep on moving
It's the art of losing
Whoa..
It's the art of losing
Whoa
It's the art of losing
We're the kids,we're the kids, we're the kids in America
We're the kids,we're the kids, we're the kids in America
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| The Breakup Song | |
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American Hi-Fi - Breakup Song
I can’t believe I hung around with you
All this time
You drove me crazy with your O.C.D.
Girl, you’re out of your mind
I’m counting on UFO’s to beam me up
I just don’t know how long I can take this shit
I’m over it, girl you gotta go
[Chorus]
It’s over, were over
Just like in crimson and clover
We’re sinking and I’m thinking
How the hell did we get so stupid?
It’s the end, ex-girlfriend
I don’t care what you think of me now
So long you’re gone
This is the breakup song
One more thing before you go
Would you please give me my records back
My Bloody Valentine, The Pixies,
Cheap Trick, and Back in Black
You can keep the dog we bought
But you can’t go near the Standard Bar
Don’t hang around, don’t call my friends
The won’t know who you are!
[Chorus X2]
THIS IS THE BREAKUP SONG!
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| Beautiful Disaster | |
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I’ll make you a 5 star enemy
I’ve taken a fall would you like to see
Choke it down what a sound run away from me
Keep on laughing girl do you see me
Break it down now
What chu want anyway
Right about now
What chu want anyway
I’ll fuck it up again
What chu want anyway
We keep falling in love
What a beautiful disaster
Connect my skull to the socket burn baby burning like a rocket
Cant sell no tell would you buy it
Thick skin now don’t you wanna try it
Break it down now
What chu want anyway
Right about now
What chu want anyway
I’ll fuck it up again
What chu want anyway
We keep falling in love
What a beautiful disaster
What a beautiful disaster [x3]
Connect my skull to the socket burn baby burning like a rocket
Choke it down what a sound run away from me
Keep on laughing girl do you see me
Break it down now [x2]
Break it down now
What chu want anyway
Right about now
What chu want anyway
I’ll fuck it up again
What chu want anyway
We keep falling in love
We keep falling in love
Break it down now
What chu want anyway
Right about now
What chu want anyway
I’ll fuck it up again
What chu want anyway
We keep falling in love
What a beautiful disaster
What a beautiful disaster [x3]
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| Save Me | |
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I've been so low
Yeah I've been so strung out
Can you picture this?
I'll take something, it's better than nothing, anything
That you've got to give
CHORUS:
I can't let go
I don't want you to know
I've been down so low
Can you save me?
I'll fight my way
Just to hear you say
If I go up in flames
Could you save me?
The more you whisper
The words keep stinging in my ear
We're never gunna be the same
Sunshine fading
And black sheets raining down on me
They cover up everything
CHORUS:
I've been so selfish
I get so high
Don't wanna come down
I've been so low
Yeah I've been so strung out
Can you picture this?
CHORUS
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| Nothing Left to Lose | |
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American Hi-fi - Nothing Left To Loose
Nothing left to lose
Except you and your baby blues
Microphone check this rhyme
Pancho villa was a friend of mine
I get fucked up holla back y’all
And I kick it like Jackie Chan
With my kung fu style
I’ll get rid of you in a while (yeah)
Hey hey hey
All the bitches in the back
C’mon c’mon get up get up (woah)
I know you know its never forever
C’mon c’mon get up get up (woah)
You wanna hear I’m sorry whatever
Now that you gone I’m moving on
You wrecked it all
There’s nothing left to lose
Except for you
Hell yeah
Get my teenage kicks
Pull in down boards like rodman
All the lipstick chicks sing
Na na na na na na
I get fucked up holla back y’all
And I rock it like Jackson Browne
Let me tell ya right now what
I like strippers better anyhow
Hey hey hey
All the bitches in the back
C’mon c’mon get up get up (woah)
I know you know its never forever
C’mon c’mon get up get up (woah)
You wanna hear I’m sorry whatever
Now that you gone I’m moving on
You wrecked it all
There’s nothing left to lose
Except for you
There’ nothing left to lose except for you
Go
1 2
C’mon c’mon get up get up (woah)
I know you know its never forever
C’mon c’mon get up get up (woah)
You wanna hear I’m sorry whatever
Now that you gone I’m moving on
You wrecked it all
There’s nothing left to lose
Except for you
Now that you gone I’m moving on
You wrecked it all
There’s nothing left to lose
Except for you
There’s nothing left to lose
Except for you [x2]
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| Teenage Alien Nation | |
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I want it all
No matter what thought you heard me say
No matter what you know you can’t escape today
………
So what if you don’t like me
I don’t give a fuck if you don’t like me
I can change my lock
It seems that I’m rotten to the core
Forget about tomorrow
You and me we’re going down in sorrow
Youth of the nation going nowhere
Station to station
Teenage alien nation (woah)
Teenage alien nation (yeah)
It’s all wrong
I guess that some of us have come and gone
I guess we kinda shudda known it all along
Never going anywhere
Sometimes you gotta pick it up and roll the dice
Your looking back and you don’t think twice
Bout feeling lonely everyday
Forget about tomorrow
You and me we’re going down in sorrow
Youth of the nation going nowhere
Station to station [x3]
Teenage alien nation [x4]
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| Rise | |
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I don’t know what I can take
Can you feel the pressure break
I’ve been getting by on nothing
How long so long
Feeling like I lost my vision
Transmission full of dead ambition
Kinda sorta gotta get it together
I can’t wait forever
Rise out of the atmosphere
I gotta disappear
I gotta get out of here
You got the best of me
Rise up and outta here
Into the stratosphere
I gotta get out of here
You got the best of me
I could never be that clever
Even though it’s now or never
Counting down the seconds till it blows
4 3 2 1
Disappear without a trace
Could I be in outer space
Staring at the sun till I get how high so high
Rise out of the atmosphere
I gotta disappear
I gotta get out of here
You got the best of me
Rise up and outta here
Into the stratosphere
I gotta get out of here
You got the best of me
Did I break down
Can we slow down
I wanna get out
I don’t wanna be so bored
Rise out of the atmosphere
I gotta disappear
I gotta get out of here
You got the best of me
Rise up and outta here
Into the stratosphere
I gotta get out of here
You got the best of me
You got the best of me [x8]
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| This Is the Sound | |
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Empty hearts can fill an empty room
Because of you
The sky above remains clear and blue
It’s nothing new
The radio keeps playing static or your favourite songs
And why does everyone keep on bringing me back to you
And this is the sound of the broken down
And this is the last train home…….the underground
And this is the fall don’t catch me if I fall
Just catch me when I fall back to the ground
Lightening crashes all around me now
I hear its sound
Broken down wings can carry us to where the people stare
Fall asleep against the windowpane
Outside the rain covers everyone
Now we’re never gonna see the sun
And this is the sound of the broken down
And this is the last train home…….the underground
And this is the fall don’t catch me if I fall
Just catch me when I fall
Don’t catch me if I fall back to the ground
And if you wanted to stay I’ll have you any day
And if you wanted to stay I’ll have you any way
And this is the sound of the broken down
And this is the last train home…….the underground
And this is the fall don’t catch me if I fall
Just catch me when I fall back to the ground
And this is the sound [x2]
And this is the fall don’t catch me if I fall
Just catch me when I fall
Don’t catch me if I fall back to the ground
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| The Gold Rush | |
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She caught the gold rush
I could never get enough
She’s been in magazines
What a little beauty queen
She’ll stay a stick around a while
With such a winning smile
She could be in black and white
I’m colour blind I’ll make it right
Her head keeps spinning round
I’m in over my head
There’s an art to falling down
Hey hey I got a message for ya
You’re gonna blow it girl
Stuck in your little world
Fight fight till we get it right
I got you right where I want you
She caught the goldrush
I must of lost my touch
She’s on the movie screen
Acting like a rocket queen
She’ll so the long mile
With such a winning smile
Break it down forever
I don’t want her anyhow
Her head keeps spinning round
I’m in over my head
There’s an art to falling down
Hey hey I got a message for ya
You’re gonna blow it girl
Stuck in your little world
Fight fight till we get it right
I got you right where I want you
Golden girl
She’s just a golden girl
My little rocket queen
On the movie screen
Hey hey I got a message for ya
You’re gonna blow it girl
Stuck in your little world
Fight fight till we get it right
I got you right where I want you
Hey hey I got a message for ya
You’re gonna blow it girl
Stuck in your little world
Fight fight till we get it right
I got you right where I want you
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| Built for Speed | |
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She’s on fire like a rocket spinning out of control
Try to stop her but you just don’tknow
How to keep it inside
Can you keep on turning out
I’ll wait for my turn
Same old story coz you never learn
Gotta make it in time
She don’t know what she does to me
The girl got soul and rhythm in between
I crash and burn like every other time
She’s my little rock n roll queen
I got a girl like that
My baby’s built for speed
Shoot to kill built to spill
Got a mind take your pills
But your never gonna get to what thrills
All of us inside
Can you put the pedal to the metal this time
You gotta want it like I want it alright
We gotta start tonight
She don’t know what she does to me
The girl got soul and rhythm in between
I crash and burn like every other time
She’s my little rock n roll queen
I got a girl like that
My baby’s built for speed
She’s on fire like a rocket spinning out of control
Try to stop her but you just don’tknow
How to keep it inside
She don’t know what she does to me
The girl got soul and rhythm in between
I crash and burn like every other time
She’s my little rock n roll queen
I got a girl like that
My baby’s built for speed
I got a girl like that
My baby’s built for speed
Yeah my baby’s built for speed [x2]
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| Happy | |
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I see you in a daydream
Turn it on now make a big scene
You kiss you kiss when you want something
Fake a smile now
You got it all
And that oughta get you nowhere
What you say to me
I know how to stay outta focus
Keep your head down till the bitter end
Make believe that you my best friend
You trade passion for fashion
Nothings cool like when we were cool
And that oughta get you nowhere
What you say to me
I know how to stay outta focus
You fall through to cracks of the city street
You can’t see straight
You can’t see straight
I see you in a daydream
Turn it on now make a big scene
It makes you happy
It makes you happy
It makes you happy
It makes you happy
And that oughta get you nowhere
What you say to me
I know how to stay outta focus
And that oughta get you nowhere
What you say to me
You fall through to cracks of the city street
You can’t see straight
You can’t see straight
You can’t see straight
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