Amphetamine Lyrics
She lost her name but found a new one
Amy goes to school all day
But at night in the neighborhood they call her Amphetamine
That all the magazines seem to want to glorify these days
She looks like a teenage anthem
She looks like she used to be happy with the girl inside
And she has that super pale skin and those soft green eyes
She looks like she could have been happy in a better life
From her family and her friends and a little girl's dream
All she wants to do every night
Is to sit beside my window and listen to the sirens
That all the magazines seem to want to glorify these days
She looks like a teenage anthem
And she looks like she should have been happy in another life
In another life
After three long years in a marriage from hell
Six months clean living sober and right
Her doctors tell her everything will be alright
And everything will be alright
Yeah, you just take your pill
And everything will be alright
She looks like a magazine girl
She looks like a teenage anthem
Like she used to be happy in another world
She is happy with the girl inside
She looks like a teenage anthem
And looks like she could have been happy in another life
In another life
Happy in another life
She is the saddest girl that I have ever known
Yeah she wakes up in the middle of the night
Just to tell me everything will be alright
Yeah Amy smiles at me, tells me everything will be alright
Yeah I tell myself the same damn thing
Everyday
Everything will be alright
Why aren't there more comments for everclear?! Anyway. I love this song, but has anyone seen the video? It's awesome, but kinda weird... I'm wondering who Amy is, and who Art/whoever the singer is is.
I agree...this is a tight song, i wish they would bring out the punk more like they did in this song.
This is my all-time favorite song. I love how it sounds like it's going to end, but it just keeps on going. I love everclear.
amy is a metaphore for amphetimine. when he says he met her at a party and took her home it means he had amphetimine at a party and got addicted and uses it everynight
Yea busman is right. I mean you could still almost look at it like a real girl Amy though too, it's cool how the song works on multipule levels. Definatly one of the best on So Much For The Afterglow and still one of my favorite Everclear songs of all time.
Oh... thanks for gettin thru my thick skull again guys =)
Yeah, there's probably a double meaning to this song. Busman hit it right with amy being a short term for amphetamine, but it also maybe about a girl named amy who is the kind of girl that magazines love to glorify but ended up with a hellish life and got fucked up by amphetamines, the irony being in her name. That's my little theory anyways.
"Yeah Amy smiles at me, tells me everything will be alright. Yeah I tell myself the same damn thing, Everyday."
. . . I used to tell myself the same thing . . . not anymore though.
Does anyone else thing that Art Alexakis is a God? I think that man is friggin amazing. Everclear is one of the best bands in my book.
I just read an older interview where Art said that the song was about a girl recovering from a drug addiction.
Kinda like Art, eh?
Anyway, yeah, Art's my hero. Best band that I know of, and Art is just a good role model... for some people