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Nebraska Bricks Lyrics
And I grew up
on alcoholic evenings and slow jazz music to keep my heart beating
because after all that happens in a dissolving family
the need for a song to sing me to sleep still rings true
and I always knew that there wasn't glue strong enough to sew these roots together
and now that I've wasted too many years
and I've lost track of where I started
I have to dream at night of who I was and why after twenty years of marriage
I am what is left and I'd like to go back now
and make myself up because I'd be a brick so I wouldn't feel
and I'd lift myself up and I'd throw myself at this house
to break windows and smash walls
just to keep time where it was and where it should be.
on alcoholic evenings and slow jazz music to keep my heart beating
because after all that happens in a dissolving family
the need for a song to sing me to sleep still rings true
and I always knew that there wasn't glue strong enough to sew these roots together
and now that I've wasted too many years
and I've lost track of where I started
I have to dream at night of who I was and why after twenty years of marriage
I am what is left and I'd like to go back now
and make myself up because I'd be a brick so I wouldn't feel
and I'd lift myself up and I'd throw myself at this house
to break windows and smash walls
just to keep time where it was and where it should be.
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This song is really good because of the lines: "I always knew there wasn't glue strong enough to sew these roots together." A lot of families don't stay together now a days and that's a really sad fact.
This song is by far the most powerful to me... I kinda had some problems with my dad while i was growing up and i still have all this bitter ass tension with him... so this song really helps me get out my anger... if i could go back ... i would also be a "brick"
this song makes me cry because everything he says i can exactly relate to my parents divorced when i was 10, and me and my brother were split between parents. it sucked so bad, and it still does. i always wish i could be little again so i could enjoy those 'happy' times while they lasted
Does anyone know if his parents are divorced, or what their family situation was? I know they were kind of wealthy living in princeton with a lawyer and a judge as parents, and from what ive heard he has a sister named kate? anyone have more info?
i think that he had a "sub-par" relationship with his parents and didnt enjoy life at home. So he was pissed and felt like taking his anger out on something, like a window!
I love how Chris expresses his feelings. No one could better explain the feelings he (and most of us) has when it comes to anything, let alone parents. When we don't know how to put it into words, Chris says it for us.
i'd like to thank Chris for writting this song. this is a great song concerning divorce. -very talented man- stay up kids, it'll be better
I love the line "the need for a song to sing me to sleep still rings true". I'm not from a broken home, but my parents are very neglectful and uninvolved. I could set my self on fire and they would not care.
I love Saves The Day, always have since the beginning, and this song is definitly one of my favorites, since the lyrics stand out so much than any other STD song. I Heart saves the day
These lyrics are some of the most personal and touching of STD's. This song is not my favorite saves the day song because musically, it's not their strongest, but the lyrics catch me off guard every time.