There's my favorite rollercoaster
Next to the blue water
The one only sissies ride

There's the sun going down
Creating that fluorescent glow
Reminding me I'll never be able
To relive this day except in memory

There's those big barking fish
In the concrete stream
Growling for dog food
Bulging dead eyes that gleam
But where's Dad and where is Mom

Looks like from here on out
It's me and you
Looks like from here on out
It's just me and you



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Rollercoaster Lyrics as written by Mark Edward Kozelek

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    it's hard to tell since most of RHP's lyrics are cryptic

    "the one only sissies ride"--perhaps this symbolizes a fragility he feels

    this all sounds like a vague dream; some distant déjá vú; a faint dream from his childhood he knows he enjoyed but remembers little about. he'd like to relive it but it's impossible to bring it back.

    iamchipdouglason February 25, 2005   Link

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