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The Wonder Years – Palm Reader
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“Palm Reader” is the twelfth track on The Wonder Years' fifth studio album, No Closer To Heaven, released September 4th 2015. An alternate/acoustic version appears on the Target
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The Wonder Years – Cardinals
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“Cardinals” is the first single from The Wonder Years' fifth album No Closer To Heaven. The music video was released June 29 and was directed by Kevin Slack. Slack said of the
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The Wonder Years – Lost It in the Lights
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[Verse 1] / It's newly summer and Tony Bourdain died / I'm laying down in the shower staring up at a broken light / There's something screaming out from in my vent at night / It's
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The Wonder Years – Brakeless
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“Brakeless” is based around an idea that the band’s writer and singer, Dan Campbell had in 2010, but never shared with the rest of the band.
It is one part of a project The Wonder
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I saw the god of rice, a fox with a key
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The shrine Campbell ended up at is dedicated to Inari, the god of rice. Inari is also the kami (“spirit”) of foxes, and almost every Inari shrine is guarded by statues of kitsune carrying or holding symbolic items; at Kyoto’s Fushimi Inari shrine, which Campbell is visiting, the statues carry keys.
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The Wonder Years – Oldest Daughter
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[Verse 1: Dan Campbell] / You drift in with the wind / And use a library computer to check in / "You can't sleep at the table, ma'am / You're scaring the kids" / And the fall's
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The Wonder Years – An American Religion (FSF)
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An American Religion (FSF) is the ninth track off The Greatest Generation, The Wonder Years’s fourth studio album.
FSF stands for “Fuck School Forever”, which was the song’s
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The Wonder Years – Dismantling Summer
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Soupy Campbell’s grandfather had a triple-bypass heart surgery and survived, but at the time, Soupy cancelled several tours to be with his grandfather. Directly, this song is
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The Wonder Years – Cardinals II
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[Verse 1] / I know the feeling in the morning when the sun / Lights the dust that hangs in orbit as you're waking up / And for a moment, you feel weightless, then the panic comes
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The Wonder Years – Coffee Eyes
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“Coffee Eyes” is an exercise in nostalgia.
Suburbia tells the story of Dan Campbell’s return to his hometown of Lansdale and his reconciliation with it. This song takes a huge
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The Wonder Years (Ft. Rachel Minton) – Hey Thanks
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In a track-by-track with fuckyeahpoppunk, singer Dan Campbell had this to say about the song:
I got a ukulele for my birthday once. At the time, I was living with a girl I was
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The Wonder Years – No Closer to Heaven
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“No Closer To Heaven” is the final and title track of the album. It is an acceptance of the imperfect nature of things, but not in a pessimistic way.
We’re never going to reach
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The Wonder Years – This Party Sucks
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In a track-by-track with fuckyeahpoppunk, singer Dan Campbell had this to say about the song:
I’ve never really feel comfortable in most social situations. I don’t know if it’s
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The Wonder Years (Ft. Alan Day & Dan O'Connor) – Summers in PA
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[Intro Verse] / Summer came on way too strong / And the radio played all new songs / So I smile and hum along / I hum along / [Verse 1] / Everybody's finally home / For the first
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The Wonder Years – Logan Circle
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“Logan Circle” is the second track on The Upsides and was remixed as a softer, less-punk version on the deluxe edition of the album.
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The Wonder Years – A Song for Ernest Hemingway
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“A Song for Ernest Hemingway” is the second of two homages to great artists that Soupy wrote in response to his own struggle with his music and writer’s block. Regarding Patsy
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The Wonder Years – We Could Die Like This
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[Verse 1] / Memories flood back like photographs / All bright and out of focus, all drab with muted colors / The whole world smells like True Blue / The only brand my grandma
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I'm wondering where you would be without me
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I think this is him humoring regret for doing what he thinks is best. After describing how tough and violent it’s been putting himself out there, he considers what the world would be like without him.
It’s a scary thought to entertain removing yourself from the world, but I think an underlying sentiment of this song is we’re better off for having him. And he’s not done showing us who he is.
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The Wonder Years – There, There
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There, There sets the tone for The Greatest Generation. This song is essentially an anthem for socially awkward people and for everyone who feels worthless or lost.
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The Wonder Years – The Ocean Grew Hands to Hold Me
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The Ocean Grew Hands to Hold Me is the closer from The Wonder Year’s sixth studio album, Sister Cities. A live version of the track was also released on the group’s session EP
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Shitty dudes with tribal tattoos all around me
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Tribal tattoos can sometimes carry something of a “douche-y” aesthetic with them, in certain cases.
Not the kinds of dudes The Wonder Years want to hang out with.
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The Wonder Years – I Was Scared and I'm Sorry
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“I Was Scared and I’m Sorry” is written as a deluxe track to The Upsides after the album leaked on Christmas Eve, 2009. Soupy has stated in multiple interviews that the album
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The Wonder Years – Christmas at 22
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“Christmas at 22” is an acoustic track originally off the No Sleep Records compilation No Sleep ‘Till Christmas.
Dan Campbell said in a since-deleted blog post promoting the song
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The Wonder Years – New Years with Carl Weathers
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A song about an incident when TWY’s van broke down in near zero temperatures while touring. This song shows how the band deals with this setback and how they won’t let it get them
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¿Donde esta la cave?
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“Cave” (cah-veh) is Spanish slang for a crack house. A “cave” to dive into to do drugs hide from the public as well as the police.
So “donde está la cave” means “where is the drug cave.”
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The Wonder Years – Passing Through a Screen Door
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“Passing Through a Screen Door” is the second track on The Greatest Generation, as well as the first full-length track on that album.
It details lead singer and lyricist Dan ‘
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Eating Sour Patch Watermelons
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Jun 10, 2008 ... Won't Be Pathetic Forever Lyrics: Well I've been waking up at twelve P.M., / In my boxers in this empty bed / Eating Sour Patch Watermelons ...
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I was hoping you'd stay / Could you stay?
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A reference to the first single “Passing Through A Screen Door” from their previous album, The Greatest Generation. The chorus of that song ends with the lines “But I was kinda hoping you’d stay” Which itself is a reference to “This Party Sucks” on The Upsides.
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The Wonder Years – I've Given You All
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This song is part of a mini-trilogy within the album, which includes:
4. Suburbia
9. I’ve Given You All
13. And Now I’m Nothing
These songs are meant as thematic interludes as
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The Wonder Years – Came Out Swinging
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The opening track to The Wonder Years' third album Suburbia I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing. Since the album was influenced by Allen Ginsberg’s “America”, Suburbia starts
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The Wonder Years – Everything I Own Fits in This Backpack
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The 3rd track on The Upsides gets into the grittier specifics about depression, trying to stay positive, and realizing it’s not as bad as one thinks it is.
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The Wonder Years – I Don't Like Who I Was Then
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“I Don’t Like Who I Was Then” is the third single from No Closer To Heaven. It debuted at Alternative Press on August 20.
Dan revisits some of the critical moments of his teenage
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The Wonder Years – Bout to Get Fruit Punched, Homie
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This song details a sensuous affair between Mrs. Kool-Aid and Captain Crunch, and is told from the perspective of Mr. Kool-Aid: the Kool-Aid Man.
It’s also the song that inspired
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The Wonder Years – Year of the Vulture
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On their Instagram on February 13th, 2024, the band announced the imminent release of the song on February 23rd, 2024. They explained that the song’s genesis came from a search for
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The Wonder Years – Cul-de-sac
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“Cul-de-Sac” describes the painful crumbling of a friendship. Dan Campbell here lays out the reasons why he has decided to break things off with a childhood friend he grew up with
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Well you're caught like gravel in my skinned knee / The wound will close eventually / You'll stay as a reminder of how fucked this world can be / Held your funeral on a Tuesday / Holy water's November-cold / That kid who pulled the trigger / Knew tomorrow couldn't promise him hope
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In an interview with AP Magazine, the song references a child Soupy mentored at an after-school program. He was killed due to gang activity.
The fact that the funeral was held on a Tuesday could also be a reference to one of Dan’s old poems, “Dear Mr. Bukowski, Thanks For The Advice” in which Dan states that he has decided to kill himself on a Tuesday since it is the most irrelevant and ignored day. This then ties in with the point of the song that underprivileged/poor children in the U.S. are sidelined and made irrelevant.
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The Wonder Years – Pyramids of Salt
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“Pyramids of Salt” was the second song released off Sister Cities. Although not officially a single, it was premiered on Billboard.com as a promotional track for the upcoming album
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So you'd better keep a look out / In case I go for second base with my hook out
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The four bases in baseball have often been used as metaphors for sexual conquest. Typically, the layout looks something like this:
First base: making out – kissing.
Second base: heavy petting – “copping a feel” kissing of the breasts/pecs – above the waist.
Third base: skin-to-skin contact below the waist – oral sex.
Home base: full-on sexual intercourse.
Pirates are often depicted with hooks-for-arms.
If this pirate goes for second base with his hook out, it’s going to hurt.
Whether or not pirates really did have hooks-for-arms is up for debate.
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The Wonder Years – Cigarettes & Saints
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“Cigarettes & Saints” is the second single from No Closer To Heaven, released July 31 2015. It is a memorial song from Soupy to Mike Pelone, a friend who passed away from drug
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