Ashley!
Are you running around?
Now you’re crying out bloody murder
Ashley!
Are you bumming around?
You are crying on my cold shoulder
You used to dangle my heart with your puppet strings
You dangled your desires right in front of my face
You led me to the well but wouldn't let my drink
Swallowing my pride and I never even got the taste
But time comes around and I’m not so naive
I’ve finally lost touch 'cause you’re so out of reach
You say that you’re fine but I know that you ain’t
You’re looking like hell and you’re no fucking saint
Ashley!
Are you running around?
Are you crying out bloody murder
Ashley!
Are you bumming around?
You are crying on my cold shoulder
Ashley!
Are you running around?
Are you crying out bloody murder
Ashley!
Are you bumming around?
You are crying on my cold shoulder
You are what you are
A wish on a shooting star
You are a filthy thought
In my memory
I’ve tasted cigarettes and liquor on your breath
we used to call it speed but now it’s crystal meth
Back when I loved you but you’re scaring me to death
This careless memory and now I could care less
'Cause time comes around and I’m not so naive
I’ve finally lost touch 'cause you’re so out of reach
You say that you’re fine but I know that you ain’t
You’re looking like hell and you’re no fucking saint
Ashley!
Are you running around?
Are you crying out bloody murder
Ashley!
Are you bumming around?
You are crying on my cold shoulder
Ashley!
Are you running around?
Are you crying out bloody murder
Ashley!
Are you bumming around?
You are crying on my cold shoulder
Ashley! x4
Are you running around?
Now you’re crying out bloody murder
Ashley!
Are you bumming around?
You are crying on my cold shoulder
You dangled your desires right in front of my face
You led me to the well but wouldn't let my drink
Swallowing my pride and I never even got the taste
I’ve finally lost touch 'cause you’re so out of reach
You say that you’re fine but I know that you ain’t
You’re looking like hell and you’re no fucking saint
Are you running around?
Are you crying out bloody murder
Ashley!
Are you bumming around?
You are crying on my cold shoulder
Are you running around?
Are you crying out bloody murder
Ashley!
Are you bumming around?
You are crying on my cold shoulder
A wish on a shooting star
You are a filthy thought
In my memory
we used to call it speed but now it’s crystal meth
Back when I loved you but you’re scaring me to death
This careless memory and now I could care less
I’ve finally lost touch 'cause you’re so out of reach
You say that you’re fine but I know that you ain’t
You’re looking like hell and you’re no fucking saint
Are you running around?
Are you crying out bloody murder
Ashley!
Are you bumming around?
You are crying on my cold shoulder
Are you running around?
Are you crying out bloody murder
Ashley!
Are you bumming around?
You are crying on my cold shoulder
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Just in case my lyric revisions don't get accepted, here are the actual lyrics of the first verse:
"You used to dangle my heart with your puppet strings You dangled your desires right in front of my face You led me to the well but wouldn't let me drink"
There are a few other mistakes, but you can figure it out. Anyway, this is my favorite song of the trilogy and has become one of my top ten favorite Green Day jams PERIOD. I knew a girl like this - not a romantic relationship, but a long and tumultuous friendship that I should have ended years before I did - and these lyrics hit me hard every time.
"Back when I loved you but you're scaring me to death This careless memory and now I could care less"
^ I love this line because it reflects how I distanced myself from this person, but am still afraid I'll hear about her self-destructive ways finally getting the best of her, while still knowing there's nothing I can do.
I think this is the darkest song on the 3 albums musically, which is part of what draws me to it, but the lyrics really shine. I wasn't as impressed with the lyrics on the trilogy as I have been in Green Day albums past, but this track makes up for it.
Just to say...I think that comment was absolutely brilliant! I couldn't agree more with your comment if I tried! Believe it or not, I knew somebody like this whose name was "Ashley" and she was my girlfriend at the time and I felt everything that you felt! Literally, knowing she was heading for a fall and nothing I could do and knowing I should of got out sooner! And her being on drugs didn't help with her heading for a bad fall, I use to worry to death about her! :/
Just to say...I think that comment was absolutely brilliant! I couldn't agree more with your comment if I tried! Believe it or not, I knew somebody like this whose name was "Ashley" and she was my girlfriend at the time and I felt everything that you felt! Literally, knowing she was heading for a fall and nothing I could do and knowing I should of got out sooner! And her being on drugs didn't help with her heading for a bad fall, I use to worry to death about her! :/
I think it's a brilliant song that...
I think it's a brilliant song that we can both relate to and you've summed it up brilliantly!
Well done!
I once had a friend exactly like that. I understand completely. Funniest thing, her name is Ashley.
I once had a friend exactly like that. I understand completely. Funniest thing, her name is Ashley.