Greendale lyrics

Turnin' the pages
In this old book
Seems familiar
Might be worth a second look

Wrappin' up dope in a paper bag
Talkin' to yourself
Takin' a drag
Who are you kidding
With what you say?
What does it matter?
They'll never hear it anyway

Got to get past
The negative thing
The lawyers and business
You get what you bring
No one's sorry
You did it yourself
It's time to relax now
And then give it hell

Save the planet for another day
"Attention shoppers, buy with a conscience and save"
Save the planet for another day
"Save Alaska! Let the caribou stay"
Don't care what the governments say
"They're all bought and paid for anyway"
Save the planet for another day
"hey Big Oil, what do you say?"

We were runnin' through the night
Never knowin' if we would see the light
Paranoid schizophrenic visions

The evening fog was rolling in
It was getting hard to see
The old white car edged down the road
Headed for the double e

She was bringin' down dinner for Grandpa
It was crawlin' with vitamins
And tender as a mother's love
When she saw the TV vans

The side door was open
There were three TVs
Grandpa's face was on every one
He was talkin' to a woman with a microphone

Silk scarf and a napkin
Hidden in a drawer
Two hundred bucks in an envelope
Labeled Lenore

"Maybe she shouldn't see this
She should never know,"
Said the widow's best friend Anne,
"I'll just take it and go

I'll give her the money later
Say it was in his shoe
That way she'll never find out...
That'll do"

"Carmichael was a credit to the force
In everything he did

"When the red light shines
On the streets of hate
Where the devil dines
Who knows what he ate

It's a simple thing
Trying to stay afloat,"
The captain said
Without his boat

"Some things are getting better
Other things a little worse
It's a situation
Much like a curse

It's the devil's sidewalk (Greendale)
It's the devil's door (Greendale)
I try to avoid it," (Greendale)

Back in the country
Livin' on the double e
In the sunshine of her life
There's a ready young filly
And mom and daddy
Won't let her leave
Mom and papa won't let her go

But when they go out dancin'
She breaks out on her own
She's hot enough to
Burn the house down
And mom and daddy don't know

When Edith and Earl
Renamed the double e
They nearly made history
The neighbors rose up

Grandpa said to cousin Jed
Sittin' on the porch,
"I won't retire
But I might retread

Seems like that guy singin' this song
Been doin' it for a long time
Is there anything he knows
That he ain't said?

Sing a song for freedom
Sing a song for love
Sing a song for depressed angels
Falling from above"

Grandpa held the paper
Pretendin' he could see
But he couldn't read without his glasses on

"Grandpa here's your coffee,"
Said Edith as she filled his cup,
"nobody'll find you here
And Earl is glad you guys showed up

The way things are downtown
You might have to stay for a while
There was a helicopter flyin' over your house
When i talked to your neighbor Kyle"

"Who the hell do they think they are?
Invading our home like that
Grandma and i had to leave so fast

Out on the old coast highway
Flyin' through the night
Jed got stopped by the CHP
For speedin' and no brake lights

Rolled down the drivers window
Slipped his gun down under the seat
Glove box full of cocaine
Trunk was full of weed

"Driver's license and registration,"
Said the officer with his flashlight
Searchin' around the floor of the car
Smellin' like somethin' ain't right

Sun Green started makin' waves
On the day her grandpa died
Speakin' out against anything
Unjust or packed with lies

She chained herself to a statue of an eagle
In the lobby of Powerco
And started yellin' through a megaphone
"there's corruption on the highest floor"

Suits poured out of elevators ("they're all dirty")
Phoneheads began to speak ("you can't trust anybody")