Andrew Shapiro

All music and lyrics written by Andrew Shapiro except for “Bash Street Worlds” lyrics by Neil Gaiman. 
 

1. LAUREN HYNDE

1985, the year you may have died
What a surprise, that plot point he devised

All I need when I want to be with you, lay beside you
Is to read about you

Lauren Hynde
Why did you have to die?
Are you real or just a girl I knew
Why do I take the time
To think about you sometimes
To dream about you
To sing about you

1985, wearing my flush-faced disguise
What a surprise, your gaze into my eyes

When it would snow, we'd go
See the sunset glow
The Unforgettable Fire on the stereo
Lauren Hynde, are you mine?
Are you real or just a girl I knew

When we went to your professors house
You were such a louse
What I had to do to pursue you

Note: Lauren Hynde is a character in the Bret Easton Ellis novels The Rules of Attraction and Glamorama.


2. ATLANTA

Everyone knows about who you are, you'll go far
Even though I’m hanging on the back of a
Garbage truck with no bar

I looked gorgeous in the facial directory
The girls came on to me
But the most I could be Jappy for was three weeks

Kissing Kelly while listening to Chicago in Atlanta
Here in Atlanta, Samantha
All the boys are dreaming about you
How far will you go in that fancy car?
But I looked gorgeous in the facial directory
So you came on to me
But the most I could be Jappy for was three weeks

You were the prettiest girl who ever hit on me
Walking outside the library
The other prettiest girl who ever hit on me
That time, next to the Belgian Waffle machine
Sitting shotgun in your BMW
Out of the blue you turned to me and said
I have a double bed

Acura man, what's the plan?
Let's go to the parking lot and score some weed then
You look gorgeous in the facial directory
So come to bed with me
But the most I could be Jappy for was three weeks

And when they wrote about me in the paper he said
It's too bad they did not put my picture in it


3. PINK JEAN MINT GREEN

Standing on a platform
Hoping for a quick two-stop ride
I get on and see you jean jacket
And you pink pant shine
Mint green scarf with a lip gloss smile
You were the one that I saw

Pink jean mint green beauty queen
You look like Drew Barrymore and the girl next door
Rolled up in one -- wouldn't it be fun?
Pink jean mint green beauty queen
Projection machine
Pink jean mint green

Artificial dreams with the girl in your dreams
Artificial dream, acid wash jeans


4. TEEN TOUR GIRL

In Calgary you came onto me
Next to me, rubbing your hands all over
Taking me by the finger, showing me where it goes

That first day when our parents met
They knew each other from the Beach Club
You gave a look at me like you were in love
I didn't have a clue what to do
So I end up making out with you
You really wanted me to

You never want to take your shirt off for me
You're a Teen Tour girl
You never want to take your Grateful Dead t-shirt
Off for me
Come on please
Ok, after the lights go out, it's on

Yellowstone and Jackson Hole, Montana, Idaho Taking you on the ski lift
Showing you where to go

In San Francisco
In the stairwell of the hotel
I got a taste of you
But when L.A. came
I no longer was your flame
I moved along
Kissing my girl with the retainer on


5. APARTMENT 705

Supposed to die, supposed to die

Sunkist Fruit Gems, Andies Mints,
Mint chocolate chip ice cream
Big whitefish, regenerating fruit plate
Dip in the pool, isn't it cool?

Love was with me all the time in Apartment 705
Everyday I wish you were still alive in Apartment 705
Never thought I'd live to see you die
But thank God I did
And then a bomb hit me

Wake up do it over again
Walk to the mall
Playing Paperboy , Frogger, Punch Out and
Spy Hunter, Ms. Pac-Man, Rolling Thunder

Parrot Jungle, The Rascal House, The Newport Pub
When I was there I never got sad
And you never got mad or yelled at all

Love was with me all the time in Apartment 705
Everyday I wish you were still alive in Apartment 705
You know I'll be just fine in Apartment 705
Never thought I'd live to see you die
But thank God I did
And then a bomb hit me


6. ACURA CLUB

Gregory had an Acura
Emily had an Acura
I had an Acura
We were the Acura Club

We all had a similar shyness, and we drove Acuras
One day we learned that there were pretty girls
Who called us the Acura Club
We were amazed those girls thought we were cool

I've become a better version of what I used to be
I achieved some status in the high school hierarchy
Not just in the way it looked, it's in the follow through
Did you lose it in the backseat too?

Daniel had an Acura
Jeremy had an Acura
Rob had an Acura
We were the Acura Club


7. LAUREN(S)

Like Lauren that sat in the center
Like sweatpants on Myers, like Lieberman, Rubin
Levin at Sensation
Get beyond living start finding a Lauren

I went walking looking for you
Yakitori pizza pie
You were once sitting at that table with those Trident girls

One day one of you will put your arms around me

So sweetly you filled up my cup with fragile foam
Your skin looks just like Myers
Love that look
If you went to Oberlin or Emory, Dartmouth or Brown
Or even if your last name is Cornell
Eyeliner just like Myers


8. BASH STREET WORLDS [Lyrics by Neil Gaiman]

I can remember when I dreamed of distant places
Everything was dandy and so desperate
Schools were things that ran like clockwork
I was given Bash Street worlds
Everything was dandy and was
So good so good good

There's a space in my heart as I look around now
A space in my heart as I look around

All the people all the places
All the dreams and all the faces
Everything was drawn and lettered
Easy justice never bettered
Everything was dandy was
So good so good good
Everything was dandy
I was given Bash Street worlds

I'll never be that age again
I'll never be the same

Nothing needed to make sense
Just to be consistently inventive and invented
And each panel opened up into impossible philosophy