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Everclear - I Will Buy You A New Lif
Everclear - I Will Buy You A New Life


Everclear - I Will Buy You A New Life Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: So Much For The Afterglow
Released: 1997

I Will Buy You A New Life Lyrics


Here is the money that I owe you
Yes you can pay the bills
I will give you more
When I get paid again

I hate those people who love to tell you
Money is the root of all that kills
They have never been poor
They have never had the joy of a welfare christmas

I know we will never look back

You say you wake up crying
Yes and you don't know why
You get up and you go lay down
Inside my baby's room

Yeah, I guess I'm doing OK
I moved in with the strangest guy
Can you believe he actually thinks
That I am really alive

I will buy you a garden
Where your flowers can bloom
I will buy you a new car
Perfect shiny and new
I will buy you that big house
Way up in the west hills
I Will Buy You A New Life
Yes I will

Yes, I know all about that other guy
The handsome man with athletic thighs
I know about all the time before
With that obsessive little rich boy

They might make you think you're happy
Yeah maybe for a minute or two
They can't make you laugh
No they can't make you feel the way that I do

I will buy you a garden
Where your flowers can bloom
I will buy you a new car
Perfect shiny and new
I will buy you that big house
Way up in the west hills
I will buy you a new life
I will buy you a new life

I know we can never look back

Will you please let me stay the night
Will you please let me stay the night
No one will ever know

I will buy you a garden
Where your flowers can bloom
I will buy you a new car
Perfect shiny and new
I will buy you that big house
Way up in the west hills
I will buy you a new life

I will buy you a garden
Where your flowers can bloom
I will buy you a new car
Perfect shiny and new
I will buy you that big house
Way up in the west hills
I will buy you a new life

I will buy you a new life
I will buy you a new life

I will buy you a new life
I will buy you a new life

I will buy you a new life
I will buy you a new life

Writer/s: ALEXAKIS, ARTHUR P / MONTOYA, CRAIG / EKLUND, GREG
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

I Will Buy You A New Life
  • This is a personal song written by lead singer Art Alexakis. When his daughter Anna was a baby, he and his ex-wife would go to a wealthy neighborhood in the West Hills of Portland, Oregon. They would look at the fancy houses, drive around and fantasize about living there. One day, after the success of Everclear, Art bought one of those houses and moved into the neighborhood.
  • Alexakis: "It wasn't about the money, it was about a different kind of life, giving all of yourself to another person. It's the ultimate romantic song to me." (Check out our interview with Art Alexakis.)

  • Everclear - Father of Min
    Everclear - Father of Mine


    Everclear - Father of Mine Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: So Much for the Afterglow
    Released: 1997

    Father of Mine Lyrics


    Father of mine
    Tell me where have you been
    You know I just closed my eyes
    My whole world disappeared
    Father of mine
    Take me back to the day
    When I was still your golden boy
    Back before you went away

    I remember the blue skies
    Walking the block
    I loved it when you held me high
    I loved to hear you talk
    You would take me to the movie
    You would take me to the beach
    You would take me to a place inside
    That is so hard to reach

    Father of mine
    Tell me where did you go
    You had the world inside your hand
    But you did not seem to know
    Father of mine
    Tell me what do you see
    When you look back at your wasted life
    And you don't see me

    I was ten years old
    Doing all that I could
    It wasn't easy for me
    To be a scared white boy
    In a black neighborhood
    Sometimes you would send me a birthday card
    With a five dollar bill
    I never understood you then
    And I guess I never will

    Daddy gave me a name
    My dad he gave me a name
    Then he walked away
    Daddy gave me a name
    Then he walked away
    My dad gave me a name

    Father of mine
    Tell me where have you been
    I just closed my eyes
    And the world disappeared
    Father of mine
    Tell me how do you sleep
    With the children you abandoned
    And the wife I saw you beat

    I will never be safe
    I will never be sane
    I will always be weird inside
    I will always be lame
    Now I'm a grown man
    With a child of my own
    And I swear I'm not going to let her know
    All the pain I have known

    Then he walked away
    Daddy gave me a name
    Then he walked away
    My dad gave me a name
    Then he walked away
    Daddy gave me a name
    Then he walked away
    My dad gave me a name
    Then he walked away

    Writer/s: ALEXAKIS, ART / MONTOYA, CRAIG / EKLUND, GREG
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • A scathing attack on deadbeat dads. It was based on lead singer Art Alexakis' father. He says it is one of the very few songs he has written that is autobiographical.
  • In 2003, Alexakis told us: "My feelings for my father haven't necessarily changed, but my feelings about myself after writing that song have been much better. It was kind of a catharsis to put those feelings into words, it's a way for me to get things out of my system. The song 'Wonderful' is very much like that too."
  • Art doesn't speak with his father and can't be sure if he's heard this or not, but he knows that his stepsisters, who were raised by his dad, weren't happy about this song. (Check out our interview with Art Alexakis.)
  • As it states in the song, Alexakis really did get Christmas cards from his father containing $5.
  • Alexakis testified before congress on March 16, 2000 to endorse a child support bill.
  • This was remixed and included on Hope In Hockeytown, an album celebrating the Detroit Red Wings back-to-back Stanley Cup Victories.

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