Nada Surf

clusters of people talking secretly to each other. in a bar you cannot talk openly to anyone you don't already know. 4 year olds, they have got the right idea: they jump the line and hit it on the nose. when we sit and we get quiet, then we look and see who's...

Do you wake up and lie there and think it through? is the weight of your own life too much for you? it all is a game you forgot to play you did woke up an hour after the clock remembered the details and wanted to stop the stakes in my life are going so far u...

To make a mountain of Your life is just a choice But I never learned enough To listen to the voice that told me Always love Hate will get you everytime Always love Don't wait 'til the finish line Slow demands come round Squeeze the hair and and keep...

you made me feel like i'm ok, i could be happy now i can sit, not run away stupidly laughing wipe out all self-pity, it's slowing me down turn off feeling pretty, dressing up dressing down. i walk around the city out of my way, looking for something i've got a...

And so we meet and there are sparks, Its gold it's new and free from sharks, Your house is big it seems so clean, Your cleaning lady comes and we're discreet. Are you lightning? 'Cause I'm waiting. What's the timing? I'm not playing. And so I act like I'm 21...

I was about to change But you stay the same I was about to change But you stay the same I was about to change But you stay the same I was about to change Make ???? somebody else ???? Can't foresee it ends ??? Armies Walk, listen to me Armies Walk, listen to...

J'ai envie de me noyer Au fond d'un rêve doré Toute mélangée à toi J'ai envie d'être avec toi Car dans mon rêve doré Tu ne ferais que m'aimer Tu dormirais contre moi Et tu ne t'en irais pas Toute mélangée à toi Longtemps, toujours près de toi J'ai envie d'ê...

when you walk home from the party drunk on bacardi and listening to the voices that lie to you nightly, make you frightened of everyone, make you sorry for something. you go home and spend your life alone with the stereo, watching the late show; or force yours...

i only wanna say things that are pure: now i won't be talking anymore. i only wanna do things that are true. every time i move i'm hurting you. i wanna know what is it that you do to keep from hurting anyone but you? cause i still say your name when i don't fe...

Leave me alone, and there'll be No one to get hurt Nobody move and there'll be Nothin' to disturb The sum of it all is that you Don't know where to turn Despite all your promises you Don't keep what you learn Beautiful beat get me out of this mess Beautiful b...

Oh, to hell with it I’m gonna have a party Oh, to hell with it I’m gonna have a party I had the blankest year I saw life turn into a TV show It was totally weird The person I knew I didn’t really know Time don’t move We're the only ones who d...

in blizzard of '77 the cars were just lumps on the snow and then later tripping in 7-11 the shelves were stretching out of control on a plane ride the more it shakes the more i have to let go now the signals still getting all mixed up we're always doing damage...

cats and dogs are coming down 14th street is gonna drown everyone else rushing round i've got blonde on blonde on my portable stereo it's a lullabye from a giant golden radio i've got no time i wanna lose to people with something to prove what can you do but l...

I'm watching the days go by, whoa, oh And I'm watching them fall like flies I'm counting the days go, go, go, go And it's making me wonder why Alright, oh yeah Alright, alright, oh yeah Yeah, I'm watching the students drop like flies From the library...

Comes a time when you can't judge no more go out shopping can't see the store I can't believe that we're really all good one of us has gone where they never should Comes a time when you really can't judge should go walking you don't even budge I can't believe...

The world's light up in your head You've been pouring in a concrete bed Your habits ossify You don't realise you're frail So frail To find someone you love, you gotta be someone you love (x2) The reason's somewhere in the agenda It takes years to let things...

if i fell down a big hole would you tell how do you know it's a deepening well like the big o i know it's a bad scene to be whole it's a bad dream i hope Marie to feel they're following me if i painted a tear would you figure it out would it make matters clear...

my coat, leave behind my coat and my belt, leave behind my coat and all that, i don't want it back... it's called undertown and it's over that way. some people leave in the morning, some people when they go to bed. inside, it's been rotting for a long time now...

Well I'd snap to attention if I thought that you knew the way I'd open my mouth if I had something smart to say I bought a stack of books, I didn't read a thing It's like I'm sitting here waiting for birds to sing Let's do it again Come on, let's do it again...

Words like violence Break the silence Come crashing in Into my little world Painful to me Pierce right through me Can’t you understand Oh my little girl All I ever wanted All I ever needed Is here in my arms Words are very unnecessary They can only do harm V...

everybody lies everybody lies everybody all the time i lie to go to sleep when all is wrong or right most of it's not there everything and everywhere i lie about you and me too but it's allright everybody lies make the wrong right 

This time, the win is mine. My perfect life. Room spin, don't know how to stop, don't know how to start. Firecracker, the one you keep inside. Firecracker, you don't know how to light. So sink in the tailspin of plans and sleep, Or come and crush me ti...

Here comes the hot feeling again When i hear his name I clearly have no control Can't help wondering If herein gone like a wave I forget but then, start rememberin' The devil in my mind, why can't he go home Are we on our way I do not want to be in this song...

left some food wrapped up in a plastic bag on the kitchen table way too long i sat down to eat next to the bag i was too tired to throw it out i saw a swarm of fruit flies i took the bag downstairs when i came back they were still there flying jerky patterns l...

i'm just a happy kid stuck with the heart of a sad punk drowning in my id always searching like it's on junk no matter who i hang out with i can hear the clack clunk of the chains that pull the cars up the roller coaster mountain top so high when it comes down...

Look around, what a mess Anybody's guess Here goes something Yeah here goes something Now change programs Here goes something Gravity's, big success No one's taken off yet Changing speeds, What a ride Stir up your insides Your majesty Your majesty Your majest...

do you ever feel like you just landed on this earth? see the creatures all do their dances back and forth you get restless and then you join them on the floor suddenly it's tomorrow it's not today anymore you talk to the ceiling every day the speakers are shak...

been trying to be cool ever since high school cool like the stars and sexy people in bars the stars will fall they'll line up in the hall may sound nice but it's ugly inside i lost all my pride taken apart one more false start how do you think we're gonna do...

hands up who thinks it's now home base is the bathroom where the lights are bright it's never too late if you know how we got our own brand of hyperspace you cannot change anyone there is no peace, there's only sun when you want to go, i know you will and i ca...

Emergency above put on your hard hats and invisible gloves What’s going on I was on the wagon, I thought I was done You have to watch out When one falls in, another can’t get out You say, I like what you say I like what you say You say and I like what you say...

stay until you're sure that i'm asleep warm safe and very still give all my things away just wait until tomorrow every afternoon i wasted being mad at you the things i never said the things i can't say tomorrow after death i'll think of you somehow i'll have a...

I am made of Sopwith Camel Sherman PT-17, sixty and cloudy, I go slow Compared to modernity I am a humming bee Sweater-weather and Hugs and drugs and movies But baby ice Is growing on the wing Baby ice is growing on the wing You rolled the dice but You didn’t...

If you leave, don't leave now Please don't take my heart away Promise me just one more night Then we'll go our separate ways We always had time on our sides Now it's fading fast Every second every moment We've gotta make it last I touch you once, I touch you t...

Hey, calling all imaginary friends! Today, don't want no one to tell me how it ends Took breathing for granted and now i don't know how to breathe something that you planted just won't get up and leave Hey, i'm bewildered and writing myself notes Say if you f...

I look in the mirror to see what my hair is doing is it kind of skywalker or is it kind of stupid? but that's not the real reason i'm looking i need a reminder of what i'm doing i need a reminder that i'm human in my dreams i love you like a snowstorm in the...

Watching Terrible tv it kills all thought getting spacier than an astronaut making out with people i hardly know or like I can't believe what I do late at night. I wanna know what it's like on the inside of love. i'm standing at the gates i see the beauty abov...

i'm putting this night down to bed cause i was sitting at the bar hoping you're walk in the door that says killian's red cause i left you a note that said come on out and we'll both get right off of our heads and float up off the chair we'll go on vacation ton...

pense a moi la prochaine fois que tu entendra la rumeur des vagues et si elles te disent que tu m'as fait que du mal, t'en fais pas j'suis la pour ca la mer connait pas le fil du temps qui nous rapproche et nous separe vive la maree haute et vive la basse mais...

There’s a cat in my alleyway Dreaming of birds that are blue Sometimes, girl, when I’m lonely This is how I think about you There are times that I want you I want you so much I could burst I know a thing about lovers Lovers lie down in trust Love goes on...

me and you got nothing better to do than to push each other around in our own way i'm gonna divine it i'm gonna figure out the cause why we're both riding up and down on my emotional flaws dig a deep shaft fill it with grass catch the alien ships when they're...

Meow-meow meow-meow meow meow (x4) I am just a kitten Hardly fit my mittens Much too small, I figure, One day I'll be bigger One day I'll be a great big kitty cat Use open windows to go from flat to flat Meow-meow meow-meow meow meow (x4) Meow meow meow-meow...

I wanna know Do you have the balls to ask? what do you see when you look at a girl? Is she a game you wanna win? If no one wa looking What would you do to get in? Do you have friends who would be proud If you went in for the kill? Do you have friends who would...

So quiet It's neither heaven nor space, it's just high And the ring around the moon looks like light and love Neither of which I get enough of Down there Where alot of people lie, In a deep sleep And months on end go by, in a single week Down there Bu...

there's no quick fix you gotta take your licks strange times long lines there are no clean cups you gotta mess it up to see why you cry i can't stay home at night i'm drawn out like a moth to lamplight come on now you gotta try it out you're killing time you'r...

i didn't do anything today lazyhead i didn't do anything today stay in bed i'm finally doing what i said i'd never do i'm doing nothing i'm doing it for you and you will admire the ultimate courage when i throw everything right in the garbage for you i didn't...

Sit on a train, reading a book Same damn planet every time i look Try to relax and slow my heartbeat Only works when i'm dead asleep Been thinking and drinking all over the town Must be gearing up for some kind of melt-down All i am is a body floating do...

three important rules for breaking up don't put off breaking up when you know you want to prolonging the situation only makes it worse tell him honestly simply kindly but firmly don't make a big production don't make up an elaborate story this will help you av...

take a look at what's been done the killing wound is the thousandth cut a dead turtle on the beach puts my happiness out of reach sea sun sand self. psychic caramel dimulants, they're good for the undertow better than a psychotic stimulant word to your mothe...

born to hippie parents given a different name which he caught much flak for the world was his oyster and hollywood the clam when he grew up he joined a hippie band he was directed by gus van zandt we'd like to think he'd have joined the smartipantz co-starred...

you're just walking round your little mazes figuring out how to get by, how to get laid and get famous, get yourself paid, impress the guys. you think you're thinking for yourself but when you get on the subway's most crowded part just to stand behind a girl t...

sea knows when shy of blue getting through dodging pain from me and you it's my cave, my last ideal to put the bed out in the hall we're diving now we're plotting charts and finding faults we're making lists down in the vaults i have no angel to watch me fall...

Everyone's right and no one is sorry that's the start and the end of this story from the sharks and the jets to the call in the morning Everyone's right and no one is sorry That's the start and the end of this story from the sharks and the jets to the call in...

don't know what to say don't know what to talk about don't know what to do about me and you I don't know what to think I always feel time's running out it's getting harder harder to get a clue even when we're quiet fighting silent treatment on the street still...

Step in my shoes, wait 'till you see the big flash now Glued to the sheets, sleep with the sheep all month long Easy to please, hard to believe it's a tease Stuck in a rut, don't give a fuck if we're us Lie in a haze, hope it's a phase and not hate You kn...

you see yourself sitting on top so self assured - happy, but when your parents bail you out you somehow feel not free. you're bored to tears in school, it's not like what you thought at all. trouble is not the answer. i know what you want to know: slow down; w...

do you remember lying on the ground you were smart and spooky we rented a car and left our bands and drove outside the city I remember the view it was the stars and you we thought that this was the one both of our ships had come when I went away you made me a...

stalemate when do i jump out of the cake when do we admit it's a fake when do we jump out of the cake I'm the nervous watcher and i watch time to turn it on but i turn it off 70% of the time i watch useless and over the line stuck stalemate jailbreak when do...

i think i lost some years, sometimes i don't know how i forget to remember now you used to tell me things that you were thinking now we don't even talk, that's what i'm thinking let's have a day outside for the lonely they're gonna cry tonight i've got some st...

The shutter clicked, but the film did not go 'round The shutter clicked, but the film did not go 'round I touch these strings, but cannot touch the sound Take a train to a bus, and then into the air Take a train to a bus, and then into the air If I had wings,...

The fox, the fox Lied Eyes under my prize The fox, the fox Lied Fox eyes under my prize We're in a different war With ourselves, and with some of you So many things that don't hold true With the fear that dims our light With the barnacles on our right On t...

the lover's crime is to think alone waste your time in another zone my wicked mind thinks you're on loan learn the manoeuvres again and again affection and alienation keep my footing with some of my friends while others are changing the station you want to com...

there's a way to drive, i see it once in a while i watch the tail-lights and memorize i won't be too scared, i won't be too tired i'm becoming hard-wired feeling hazy, waking up inertia i'm having dreams i'm in the wrong picture am i older than you thought did...

why do i worry, what do they think? what is she saying to them? i can't ignore anything. you're eating up my world like my every second was haunted. were you just like this since you were a girl, cause it's all i've ever wanted. i'm just like you, peel away th...

don't push me cause i'll fall in love with whatever you just said don't push me cause i'll fall in love with the way you wear your head out in the corner you're glowing white i want to want you i need to need you i'd love to love you i want to want you i need...

Take me out tonight Where there's music and there's people And they're young and alive Driving in your car I never never want to go home Because I haven't got one Anymore Take me out tonight Because I want to see people and I want to see life Driving in your...

movies like zoos try another me and i will try another you or put my arms around you like i think you want me to but tell me what you're thinking i so often misconstrue treading water treading white wine seeing borders seeing straight lines i get these feeling...

i can see the things she does for me i'm living in a treehouse i live in constant fear awakening must be near i'm sleeping in a dreamhouse a tine in the fork in the road is pointing to heaven but the sky is old a tine in the fork in the road is pointing at n...

why do i feel bad again? i shouldn't be sad or miss a grin. doubt creeps in and doubt creeps out, skews the view from my cloud. troublemaker tempting fate, questioning the path i take, showing me the twists and turns, the forks and points of no return. i would...

Outside just killing time and making noise And outside the daylight comes, the daylight goes and weightless If its weightless it makes no stairways to stairs that go nowhere and don’t dream, that is a dream it is what it seems Climbing from over stimulated st...

So we sat and talked And then we walked and talked But said it was the truth What is your secret? Dragged it on and on Even favorite songs But your division's wrong What is your secret? I don't care about you anymore The people got tired Our movies don't pla...

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground You try this trick and spin it Your head would collapse But there's nothing in it So you ask yourself Where is my mind, Where is my mind, Where is my mind? Way out In the water See it swimming I was swim...

Everyone's right and no one is sorry That's the start and the end of the story From the sharks and the jets to the call in the morning Everyone's right and no one is sorry That's the start and the end of the story From the sharks and the jets to the call in t...

You tell mum, I'll break your neck She's already a nervous wreck I don't do it every day It doesn't hurt me anyway Why are you so mean to me? You'll regret eventually You watch way too much TV Why are you so mean to me? I remember my first time I knew I had...

If you were here, baby we'd increase the dose. There was no fear in my room when we got close. Call me anytime you've got a ghost. You're the only person in the world I feel that way about. And if you move off to the side, I'll get swept back out Where it's c...

chaque année je me sens plus étrange qu'est ce que j'ai dit tu pleures maintenant je peux pas cacher j'ai vraiment cru vouloir te quitter mais quand t'es pres tu saisis toujours toutes mes pensées j'aime dormir je suis content qu'en revant il me faut un nou...