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Evan Dando & Heroin

from Shining from Shook Foil by Stover

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i was having a lot of memories of high school (i went from 1994-1998) and having lots of nostalgia for all the good music and cool clothes all the grunge kids wore back then. the song is not a narrative per se (unlike most of my tunes) but i think that those who went to high school during the grungey 90s will get it.

lyrics

dope fiends pot heads and Jim Beam virgins
i'm not drunk yet, but i'm still learnin'
how to be as cool as the singer from The Lemonheads

you see in 8th grade i bought their brand new album
i sang along with it each night in my bedroom
oh it's a shame about kurdt cobain's death

chorus:

but evan dando tore down the fence
between a boy's wet dream and a girl's first dance
where the fashion's flannel under dirty hair left long

and i just want someone who thinks i'm special
a grunge rock dream not some prom queen asshole
and i hope she won't chuckle at the heroin
i've never done

all the teenage girls with their baby curls
split the game in half with cartwheels and twirls
oh they've starved themselves into mini skirts and smiles

cuz that's what it takes to be beautiful
that's he price you pay for a mouth that's full
of the seed and the sweat of the guy with the car and the style

chorus (but for me)

dc talk's still selling their fad religion
but thomas kinkaide still can't paint crucifixion
cuz you can't be light if there's darkness in your paint

so i praise the lord and i push record and i lift my voice
and i strum a chord oh it's sad and it's sweet
sure to make the ladies faint

chorus: (and one day)

surrealist poets still chasin' the dragon
grunge rockers still fallin' off the wagon
and the new millennium makes me feel old

and evan i read that you awoke
to the sound of planes and the smell of smoke
as the towers fell from your eyes to the ground below

chorus: (and I hear) (but i found)

credits

from Shining from Shook Foil, released May 10, 2009
Justin Stover: lyrics, vocals, rhythm guitars (acoustic and electrics)
Dustin Anderson: drums
Ben Abney: lead guitar

Written by Justin Stover

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