Teenage Wasteland

Out here in these fields is a new song. I'm sure we'll get to the ones I've already written soon enough, but this one is hot off the press.

I thought up the idea for the chorus last night on the way home while K8 and I were listening to pop music, so you can only imagine how deep and thoughtful it will be:)

Nah, but the idea behind this one was just kinda poking fun at those who do the roller coaster of partying/casual sex/drugs/and binge drinking etc and then wallowing in self-loathing and hate, simply because some of them are convinced that they have to reach the absolute bottom of the barrel before they can give up their empty lifestyle.

I know being a musician and poking fun at drugs and binge drinking is probably against some guild covenant, but whatever.

In other news, this is the first decided un-religious song I've written, but I still had to resolve a tiny bit in the bridge. Lemme know your thoughts.



Got Things Started

The party wasn’t the same without my drug
I wonder who they found to split and then chew up.
Once I beat the chagrin, I’ll be back in the hunt,
This innocence is a chore that’ll soon get done.

I’m not sick enough of myself to change, not when the fun’s just started
These days failure could one day be my fame, whoa oh!
Don’t you worry for me, I’ll feed myself the lies that I need to make it
A steady diet of self-loathing should help, at least its what got things started now

The purity of my youth is lost and gone
But once you give up on love, its not so hard (its hard)
Isn’t there some kind of floor beneath this all?
Or am I cursed to perpetually fall?

I’m not sick enough of myself to change, not when the fun’s just started
These days failure could one day be my fame, whoa oh!
Don’t you worry for me, I’ll feed myself the lies that I need to make it
A steady diet of self-loathing could help, at least its what got things started now

Looking to be broken hearted?
Burned by fires you never started?
Think you’re hated, not created and loved, and its done.

But I’m not sick enough of myself to change, not when the fun’s just started
These days failure could one day be my fame, whoa oh!
Don’t you worry for me, I’ll feed myself the lies that I need to make it
A steady diet of self-loathing could help, at least its what got things started now
I know that’s what got things started
I know that’s its all been started now
And its to late to stop its started now