Alternative Radio

(album: Why Am I So Happy? - 2015)

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Haha, are we recording?

I was Six years old, in kindergarten
When my parents got divorced
It was the first time i heard the "C" word
Standing there on the porch
And then we all went back inside
We turned the radio way up high
We were hoping for some better times
Kurt Cobain said "Whatever, Nevermind"
We would listen to the...
I was Ten years old and I woke up for school and I made my bed
Around the time Billy Corgan wore silver pants and he shaved his head
Then, I heard them yell downstairs
Not another morning with a fight down there
I turned my radio up all the way
And Billy said "Today's the greatest day"
I think its safe to say

[Hook:]
Alternative radio
Saved my...
Alternative radio
Saved my...
Alternative radio
Saved my life

I was Twelve with a Weezer shirt
And a girlfriend we were in love
I mean, we never really spoke to one-another
But we wrote each other notes and stuff (we didn't fuck)
After school she handed me one
It said "We're done" and it broke my world
On the school bus I heard a Weezer song
It said "Goddamn you half Japanese girls" (She wasn't Japanese but still)

Fifteen years old getting drunk at my home boy Zach B's
We were quite fucked up off Absolute Vodka and weed
Listening to The Pixies
Later on I was vomiting
That's when his mom walked in
I got grounded for quite a long time
I would do little, hung over, where is my mind?
But the...

[Hook:]
Alternative radio
Saved my...
Alternative radio
Saved my...
Alternative radio
Saved my life


I was Twenty-Four years old when I had the offspring of my own
I miss her when I'm out on tour
Singing interstate love-songs
So I call home on the phone she says "I miss you too"
I said "Loving is what i got" I said "Remember that"
It's a Bittersweet Symphony When you think of me
But in a few days I will be back and we can listen to the...

[Hook:]
Alternative radio
Saved my...
Alternative radio
Saved my...
Alternative radio
Saved my life

I never quit getting lit like my own worst enemy
Eddie Vedder-y flannels til I'm seventy
And now I'm an aging fool, I played in school
But rage and tool made me cool it saved my...

[Hook:]
Alternative radio
Saved my...
Alternative radio
Saved my...
Alternative radio
Saved my life