Summer Of '89-Butch Walker

[ti:Summer Of '89] [ar:Butch Walker] [al:The Spade] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Summer Of '89 - Butch Walker [00:00.74]1 2 3 [00:01.88] [00:02.92]Whoa oh ho oh-oh whoa [00:07.97] [00:09.30]Whoa oh ho oh-oh whoa [00:15.15]Changing strings [00:16.54]Banging on things [00:18.27]A couple of girls from the school [00:20.61] [00:21.41]Would listen to KISS [00:22.99]With rockets for fists [00:24.57]Acting like Saturdays fools [00:27.36] [00:27.93]Learned how to smoke [00:29.57]Told dirty jokes [00:31.13]Talked about loose girls from Rome [00:34.00] [00:34.61]I made out with most of them [00:36.57]So I raised a toast to them [00:37.92]Especially now that I'm old [00:40.38]And they're 45 with husbands who don't like their wives [00:44.43]3 or 4 kids make enough to survive [00:47.32]In their paper mill jobs [00:48.97]While their teen heartthrobs [00:50.17]Are playing in bands [00:52.30]Or they're dead [00:53.61]Can I go back to when [00:55.80]I was the winner [00:57.48]Way before the rain came [00:59.25]And washed away the sinners [01:00.98]Everyone was something and [01:02.75]Nothing was done right or wrong [01:06.86]Oh oh oh [01:08.54]Whoa oh ho oh-oh whoa [01:14.95]Whoa oh ho oh-oh whoa [01:20.58]Smothering the cover of a 69 summer [01:23.72]Played through a speaker of fuzz [01:26.39] [01:27.16]Nobody knew Bryan Adams wasn't cool [01:30.26]The TV just told me he was [01:33.69]Always heard the sound [01:35.15]Get me out of this town [01:36.80]Resonating clear in my head [01:40.23]Chuck ran away with our gear and the drugs [01:43.14]Ya know I'm pretty sure that he's dead [01:45.95]Or he's 46 and alone [01:47.96]Cast the heaviest stone [01:50.13]Suburban cover band playing bad to the bone [01:53.11]In a bath tub of meth [01:54.66]You can smell your own death [01:55.98]You know when you can't look your past in the eye [01:59.27]Can I just go back to when [02:01.56]I was the winner [02:03.13]Way before the rain came [02:05.06]And washed away the sinners [02:06.58]Everyone was something [02:07.93]And I could never do any wrong [02:12.38]Oh oh oh [02:14.09]Whoa oh ho oh-oh whoa [02:19.93] [02:20.59]Whoa oh ho oh-oh whoa [02:26.32]Went back to the woods [02:27.49]Where I hid all my goods [02:29.31]In a rusted out Cadillac door [02:31.95] [02:32.50]We all get nostalgic [02:34.08]And fall for the hat trick [02:36.06]Of thinking it'll be like before [02:38.87]Like the football jocks [02:40.25]Trying to please their pops [02:42.03]And the stoners aping everything their bad uncles taught [02:45.66]And the teachers who cared [02:47.16]More than I ever knew [02:49.06]They knew I played clubs [02:50.89]Let me sleep through school [02:52.50]And my day job boss [02:54.30]Who wrote it up as a loss [02:55.70]But let me leave when I wanted and I never got caught [02:59.25]Sleeping out on the field [03:00.76]In the back of my truck [03:02.57]Breaking into the bars [03:03.31] [03:03.87]Stealing the beer and getting f**ked [03:05.65]By a girl twice my age making minimum wage [03:08.98]But the tan lines were good [03:10.70]And she had a good face [03:12.33]Is this what I've become [03:14.08]Is this all I've become [03:15.59]When do I become [03:17.51]When do I become [03:19.16]When do I become [03:20.75]When do I become [03:22.45]When do I become [03:24.14]When do I become [03:25.80]When do I become [03:27.39]When do I become [03:28.94]When do I become [03:30.77]When do I become [03:32.33]When do I become [03:33.95]When do I become [03:35.13]I wanna go back to when [03:37.18]I was the winner [03:38.84]Way before the rain came [03:40.62]And washed away the sinners [03:42.26]Everyone was someone and [03:43.88]And I could never do any wrong [03:47.60] [03:48.18]Oh oh oh [03:49.78]Whoa oh ho oh-oh whoa [03:55.04] [03:56.23]Whoa oh ho oh-oh whoa