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here are the lyrics for so long, astoria.
and also links to watch the 'in this diary' video.


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So Long Astoria

It was the first snow of the season
i can almost see you breathin
in the middle of that empty street

Sometimes i still see myself in that lonesome bedroom
playin my guitar and singing songs of hope
for a better future

life is only
as good as the memories we make
and i'm taking back what belongs to me

polaroids of classrooms unattended
these relics of remembrence
are just like shipwrecks
only theyre gone faster
than the smell after it rains

last night while everyone was sleepin
i tripped through my old neighborhood
and resurrected memories from ashes

we said that we would never
we were really just like them
does rebellion ever make a difference

life is only
as good as the memories we make
and im taking back what belongs to me
polaroids of classrooms unattended
these relics of remembrence
are just like shipwrecks
only theyre gone faster
than the smell after it rains

So long astoria
i found a map to buried treasure
and even if we come home empty handed
well still have our stories
of battle scars, pirate ships and wounded hearts,
broken bones, and all the best of friendships

and when this hourglass
has filtered out
its final grain of sand
i raise my glass to the memories we had
this is my wish
this is my wish
im takin back
im takin them all back

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Takeoffs & Landings

On this coldest of January nights
We drive out past the runway and watch the planes go flying by
The runway lights are the deepest blue like the colors of your eyes
So close them tight and kiss me one last time

If you could go anywhere right now
Where would you go?
And would you miss me when you get there?
No place that I would rather be
Please don't let me go falling from the sky
The "fasten seatbelt" sign just needs to go out
If only you could be right here by my side
Home wouldn't seem so far from here

Passport, customs, carry on, remember
To shut off all of your electronic devices
Fell asleep on Tuesday woke up Monday afternoon
I slept right through your International Date Line

If you could go anywhere right now
Where would you go?
And would you miss me when you get there?
No place that I would rather be
Please don't let me go falling from the sky
The "fasten seatbelt" sign just needs to go out
If only you could be right here by my side
Home wouldn't seem so far from here

Please don't let me go falling from the sky
The "fasten seatbelt" sign just needs to go out
If only you could be right here by my side
Home wouldn't seem so far from here

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In This Diary

Here in this diary, i write you visions of my summer
it was the best i ever had
there were choruses and sing alongs, and that unspoken feeling
of knowing that right nows all that matters

all the nights we stayed up talking, listening to 80s songs
and quoting lines from all those movies that we loved
it still brings a smile to my face

i guess when it comes down to it
being grown up isnt half as fun as growing up
these are the best days of our lives
the only thing that matters is just following your heart
and eventually you'll finally get it right

breaking in to hotel swimming pools
and wreaking havoc on our world
hanging out at truck stops just to pass the time
the blacktop singing me to sleep

lighting fireworks in parking lots
illuminate the blackest nights
cherry cokes under this moonlit summer sky
twenty fifteen riverside, its time to say goodbye

get on the bus, its time to go
being grown up isnt half as fun as growing up
these are the best days of our lives
the only thing that matters is just following your heart
and eventually you'll finally get it right

being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up
these are the best days of our lives
the only thing that matters is just following your heart
and eventually you'll finally get it right

being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up
these are the best days of our lives
the only thing that matters is just following your heart
and eventually you'll finally get it right

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The Saddest Song

Only two more days until your birthday
yesterday was mine

Youll be turning 5 i know what its like
growin up without your father in your life

so i pretend im doing all i can
and hope someday youll find it in your heart

to understand why im not around
and forgive me for not being in your life

i remember waiting for you to come
and we were waiting for you to call
and we were waiting there to find nothing at all
i remember waiting for you to come
and we were waiting for you to call
waiting there to find nothin at all

maybe someday

you'll really get to know me
not just from letters read to you
i pray i'll get the chance to make it up to you
we've gotta lot of catching up to do

so i pretend i'm doing all i can
and hope someday you'll find it in your heart
to understand why i'm not around
and forgive me for not being in your life

i remember waiting for you to come
and we were waiting for you to call
and we were waiting there to find nothing at all
waiting for you to come waiting for you to call
i remember waiting for you to come
forgive me
waiting for you to call
im so sorry
i will make it up to you

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Unopened Letter to the World

If i died tomorrow would this song live on forever?
and here is my unopened letter to a world
that never shall reply

if i died tomorrow would this song live on forever?
and here is my unopened letter to a world
that never shall reply
never shall reply

from this second story window
i can hear the church balls calling out my name
this table is set for one
even angels would be homesick
in this forsaken town

on random notes of parchment
i'm scrawling my existence
dressed in white

this candle radiates throughout the night
and it's never burning out

never burning out
from this second story window
i can hear the children down on main street
they're singing their songs tonight

in the shadows i will listen to their every movement

Mr. Higginson am i not good enough for the world?

am i destined only to die
the same way that i lived,
its seclusion?

but high up on this mountain
i can almost see your lonely window sill
they'll carry you off tonight
there's a ghost in your old bedroom
and a candle burning bright

if i die tomorrow
will this song live on forever?

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My Reply

i got your letter and the poetry you sent me
postmarked in december of last year
i really hope your doing better
all your friends close by your side
one step closer to recovery

i wish there was something i could say
to erase each and every page
you've been through
even though its not my place to save you

i appreciate but cant accept this thank you note
thats sealed with your last breath
and i won't stand aside
and listen to you give up

if you'll just hold on for one more second
just hold on to what you have
just hold on/ just hold on
if you'll just hold on for one more second
just hold on to what you have
just hold on/ just hold on

these arms remain stretched out to you
maybe someday you'll accept them
maybe its too late to save a young girls heart that slowly stopped beating
(maybe)

wake up wake up you've gotta believe
wake up wake up
you cant give up time keeps going on without us
long after we're dead and gone

i wish there was something i could say
to erase each and every page
you've been through
even though its not my place to save you

i appreciate but cant accept this thank you note
thats sealed with your last breath
and i won't stand aside
and listen to you give up
if you'll just hold on for one more second

just hold on to what you have
just hold on/ just hold on
if you'll just hold on for one more second
just hold on to what you have
just hold on/ just hold on

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Summer 79

Our last day of summer 1979
We gotta live up one time before it's over
We will make history tonight

Out at the drive-in
All of our closest friends will be sneaking in
You'll be spending your whole night
Trying everything you can to get that girl to notice you

"We are the champions"
Playing out on the radio station
Everyone's singing along with these anthems of our generation
Cruisin down Pacific Coast Highway
With the top down, crawl into the back seat
Let's create anthems of our own tonight

Down at the roller rink
All the cool kids crowding around the air hockey table
Hey, my best friend likes you
I hear you shout at me as you go skating by

"We are the champions"
Playing out on the radio station
Everyone's singing along with these anthems of our generation
Cruisin down Pacific Coast Highway
With the top down, crawl into the back seat
Let's create anthems of our own tonight

Sneak out of the window, darling
Let's live like outlaws, honey
We'll never look back

Climb out on this rooftop
And stare at the city lights below us
This world belongs to us tonight
The kids will keep raging on
They're never gonna stop

"We are the champions"
Playing out on the radio station
Everyone's singing along with these anthems of our generation
Cruisin down Pacific Coast Highway
With the top down, crawl into the back seat
Let's create anthems of our own tonight

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The Hero Dies in This One

As I laid here today, Apartment 108
I'll always keep you in my heart.
Anderson is cold tonight, the leaves are scattered on the ground.
I miss the seasons in the comfort of your smile.
Sometimes this song feels like a dream,
I'm waiting for someone just to wake me up (wake me up) from this life.

As I look out on these fairgrounds,
I remember how our family split apart.
I don't think I ever told you,
but I know you always did your best in the hard times that only made us stronger.

As I sit here all alone, I wonder how I'm supposed to carry on when you're gone.
I'll never be the same without you, I love you more than you will ever know.
So maybe now you finally know: sometimes we're helpless and alone, but you can't let it keep you weighted down.
You must go on.

Do you ever feel like crying?
Do you ever feel like giving up?
I raise my hands up towards the sky and say this prayer for you tonight,
because nothing is impossible.

As I sit here all alone, I wonder how I'm supposed to carry on when you're gone.
I'll never be the same without you, I love you more than you will ever know.
So maybe now you finally know: sometimes we're helpless and alone, but you can't let it keep you weighted down.
You must go on.

(SPOKEN: ) The hardest part isn't finding what we need to be, it's being content with who we are.
Stay who you are.

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All You Can Ever Learn is What You Already Know

Is this how it was intended?
The sunrise over smoke stacks in the Midwest, the beauty of this abandoned factory.
Christmas lights blinking on and off all out of time in what used to be the bleakest dreams of middle class America.
I'm trying to believe in you, but all these satellites and shattered dreams are blocking out my view.
Please don't forget who you really are, because nothing really matters when we're gone.

Fell in love with his keno waitress.
They honeymooned in Memphis; they were married by the drive up window.
Trailer parks, neon signs, and an empty box of Lucky Strikes: all used up from the dashboard of America.
I'm trying to believe in you; this world sold its fate for parking lots and drunk sincerity.
Please don't forget who you really are, because nothing really matters when we're gone
You'll be saddened to know the train tracks you once walked as a young boy are now nothing but a graveyard.
Please don't forget how small we really are, because nothing really matters when we're gone.

Nothing really matters.
I'm trying to believe in you

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The Boys of Summer

Nobody on the road
Nobody on the beach
I feel it in the air
The summer's out of reach
Empty lake, empty streets
The sun goes down alone
I'm drivin' by your house
Though I know you're not at home

But I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
You got your hair combed back and your sunglasses on, baby
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

I never will forget those nights
I wonder if it was a dream
Remember how you made me crazy?
Remember how I made you scream
Now I don't understand what happened to our love
But babe, I'm gonna get you back
I'm gonna show you what I'm made of

I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
I see you walkin' real slow and you're smilin' at everyone
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

Out on the road today, I saw a BLACK FLAG sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice Inside my head said, "Don't look back. You can never look back."
I thought I knew what love was
What did I know?
Those days are gone forever
I should just let them go but-

I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
You got that top pulled down and that radio on, baby
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
You got that hair slicked back and those Wayfarers on, baby
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

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Radio #2 (New Version)

Meet me at midnight
At the broadcast tower
High above the hollywood sign
You bring your guitar and I'll bring my radio (radio)

Everyone will come from miles around
To witness this beautiful site
We'll set bonfires and pretend its the 4th of July

This is the starting of a brand new revolution
Bite the hand that feeds
Stand up and fight against messages that they're sending
Stop their frequency

You're always talkin' (its never ending)
It's about time that we turned off the radio
Call the request lines and tell them that it's over
You're always playin' all of the same songs
Over and over again
It's about time that we all turned off the radio

We'll listen to b-sides and sing along
To anthems of the years gone by
Integrity and honesty will prevail tonight
When it's all over (when it's all over)
One question still remains
Why do so many bands never make it to the radio?

(chorus)

Look outside your FM dial
They're preaching lies in 4/4 time
A generation without a voice
It's stripped of pride

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A Beautiful Mistake

Maybe I'm not ready for this, and you know it.
Maybe I'm too scared to tell you what I'm really thinking
It's not fair to stay together because of regrets we might have.
I don't want to fall asleep alone, but do I want to wake up with you?
I'm only trying to be completely honest.

So I guess this is the ending or a beautiful mistake.
And if we both agree that we shouldn't be together why does it hurt so much?
I feel like I lost my closest friend.
I don't want to fall asleep alone, but do I want to wake up with you?
I hope you're happy and completely lonely.

There I am standing all alone on Sydney Harbor Bridge.
And you know I would jump into the fucking ocean if it meant I was truly capable of being satisfied.
Well I ever be?
Did I just give up the best thing I ever had?

I don't want to fall asleep alone, but do I want to wake up with you?
I hope you're happy and completely lonely.
I don't want to fall asleep alone, but do I want to wake up with you?
I'm only trying to be completely honest.

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Eight of Nine

these hospital walls are the palest of white
here in this desert they're reciting my last rites
the smell of these halls
brings temporary comfort
as the oxygen flows through my blood
el corazon was poisoned tonight...
she's on her eight of nine.

when half of all your prayers are insincere,
the other half are lies.
here is this watermark under this bridge.
the point where it all crested,
rolled back and drifted into the sea.
i climb from this wreckage
as the smoke begins to clear from my lungs.
the closest of close calls has happened tonight.

it's time that i made things right
for the first time,
since the last time.
let this moment of clarity
lift this curse that has been cast upon me.

appreciate the good times,
but don't take the worst for granted.
'cause you only get so many second chances.


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