Anywhere But Here lyrics

instrumental

Sometimes I sit and think about yesterday...
of all those simple words that I didn't even say.
I just sit back and wonder why... (wonder why...)
...everything is just bought and sold,
and why everyone listens to what they're told.
No matter what you do you'll never get ahead
and to everyone else you're just better off dead!
Sometimes I sit and watch you on T.V.

What have I done, what have I got
Your life is really useless, your life is really shot.

Gun toting losers, beer swillin' hicks.
Backwards hilljacks, stupid teenage chicks.
Hate it here, I hate it here this Anderson hell.
Life sucks but you're too blind to tell.
Don't you know I really hate it here and
I will always hate it.
Don't you know I really hate it here

Won't be another statistic...
Won't be a minority...
I'll achieve every goal I have...
there's not a thing I can't be!
Just as long as I am happy,
that's all that matters to me.
I'll walk away from this place
on that unhappy day that I have to follow rules,
this so-called book you go by
was written for a fool!
Maybe now you understand
life from my point of view,
I've got my head on straight

How many bands have wrote this song before?
I can name at least fifty...
I bet you could name a hundred more.
There's over a couple thousand
chord progressions around.
Whill someone tell me who decided
they'd run this one into the ground?!
(Chorus) I'm putting a stop to it once and for all!
I'm putting my fist right though the wall!
I'm telling you once and for all...

It's frivolous, it's pointless,
I'm waiting here in line.
I'd buy a cup of coffee
but I just wanna kill some time.
I'm watching you,
now, I'm staring at you.
I figure that you notice,
but you don't really have a clue. (a clue)
Time sure does fly
when your just a lonely boy
Waiting for someone to come along
and ruin your fun
Sitting all alone with that quiet smile
on your face

Did I ever tell you that I really love you...
and I think about you all day?
I really miss you and wish I could kiss you
but why are you so far away?
(Chorus)
Since you've been gone
I've thought over and over about you inside my
head
and where I went wrong, where I went wrong
Everyday...
I've been thinkin' alot about all of the things
you'd say
Since I went away...
Since I went away...

I think that we're lost again
and this looks like the shitty side of town.
We're running out of gas
and the sun is going...
down... down... down.
Time to turn around
and start heading back
in the right direction now,
but my map is upside down
I just wanna make the show,
but I don't think that we're gonna go.
I can see the headline now...
Four punks found dead again.

It all started one day
when I had nothing more to say to you
so I ran over the other way.
Love is for morons.
But, who's this fucking idiot that I see
staring right back at me???
Will someone tell me
what's right or wrong anymore?
Cause' everywhere I go
I wonder what I'm searching for.
I think of all the times
I've thought of you and masturbated.
All this pre-teen shit has got me so
frustrated!

I live my life day by day
Hating it in every way
Sitting all alone, keeping to myself
Far away from everyone else

Even though I feel alone inside
Sometimes I find it hard to hide
It's hard to keep my feelings in
I just want to express myself again

I'm gonna speak my mind
You should speak your mind

I wonder how I'll tell you how I feel?
And how do I know if this feeling's really real?

I wait for the day to come
when I'll wake up and be a star.
I dream of a different world...
somewhere where we will go far.
I bitch about my life.
I bitch about the scene.
I hate this fucking town
wish that it was all a dream.
(Chorus) Bitch, bitch, bitch!
That's all you ever do.
Bitch, bitch, bitch!
Your ego will destroy you.
Bitch, bitch, bitch!
That's all I have to say.
Bitch, bitch, bitch!

Forgot about the girl I didn't kiss...
about the one show that I missed...
I sorta figured out that things
will turn out alright.
There's no use holding on to the past,
Live it up man, have a blast!
Stop your whining pal
and go and have some fun tonight!
(Chorus) You gotta let it go... (x3)
and things will turn out alright.
You gotta let it go... (x3)
and have some fun tonight!

Time to burn it all away, time to think of what to say
Time to go right back to yesterday.
Time for movements in the past, time for something that won't last.
Not just fire quick and die off fast.

Things are never what they seem,
I'm stuck inside of someone else's dream.
Problems never go away...
I'm sick of being caught in yesterday.

You're not punk, and I'm telling everyone.
Save your breath, I never was one.
You don't know what I'm all about.
Like killing cops and reading Kerouac.
My enemies are all too familiar.
They're the ones who used to call me friend.
I'm coloring outside your guidelines.
I was passing out when you were passing our your rules.
One. Two. Three. Four.
Who's punk, what's the score?

Got a friend.

What can I say?
I'll bite my tongue again today.
What can I do when I feel so stupid over you?
I wish they'd go ahead and cut it off.
And I don't wanna work anymore
cause' sometimes I just can't ignore
the way I feel when I see you smile.
And someday I'll just shut my eyes
and maybe then you'll realize...
I'm just a fucking geek in love with you.
When's the right time

I saw you cryin' as I turned away
Did I see your face, like it wasn't there
And I know I was wrong...
yeah, I knew it all along
But I didn't care about you
Clara, where are you today?
And did you make the same mistakes...
that I made, a million times before I met
you
Did you go, did you run, did you think of
your son?
Did you know you're not the only one...

You inhale the toxic fumes,
I look away, and then resume to...
do all the things that I told myself
I wouldn't ever do.
Why do I always believe,
that I'm in love with everyone I see?
And, why did the next one have to be you?
Why do you believe that everything I say is
true?
(Chorus) Why must I always do this?
Why do I put myself through this?
Love is blind and so unkind...

Lately I've been feeling
a little bit neglected.
When it comes to your ex-boyfriends,
well, I guess I'm overprotective.
But it's nothing personal
I just wanted you to tell me that you
care.
Lately I've been thinking bout'
stickin' my head in a toaster.
I never asked to take a ride
on this emotional roller-coaster
It's you that I want,
and lately it feels like you're not there.

There's a lot on my mind
so I guess that I'll take it one thing at a time,
still sometimes I can't help but wonder why...
I sit around all day
and I waste my whole damn life away,
still thinkin' bout' just what there is to say.
(Chorus #1) Should I say goodnight???
...got to bed, turn out the fucking light
and leave you shining in the past.
Should I try and forget???

It's nice to meet
someone with a future as fucked up as mine.
So, I'm unpredictable,
Is this some fucking sign of the times?
I take pride
in what I do, and I do it well.
Call me easy-going
but at least I have a fininshed story to tell.
Cause' tomorrow I just might be
another face on T.V.
being arrested for telephone fraud
or beating someone to death with my guitar!

I am blue, the sky is grey,
I guess it's better off that way.
There's really not much left to say.
I called you on the phone,
another guy said that you weren't at
home,
but, I don't care I'll call you again
anyway.
Baby I'd give you the world...
please forget about those fifteen other
girls.
I don't care what they say...
I didn't mean to stand you up on our
wedding day.