The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years & Laura Stevenson
The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years
“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 ‘Soupy’ Campbell’s life-crisis, where he questions the decisions he’s made and dwells on his nature of running and cowering w...
[Intro]
Cigarette smoke dances back in the window
And I can see the haze on the dome light
I’m conjuring ghosts on a forty-hour ride home
And they keep asking me what I’m doing with my life
While my cousins go to bed with their wives
I’m feeling like I've fallen behind
[Verse 1]
Well, the highway won
I’m listening to traffic reports one on one
Coming quietly undone
I was born to run
Away from anything good
An escape artist's son
Sun-drenched pavement in my blood
The first thing that I do when I walk in
Is find a way out for when shit gets bad, and
[Chorus]
I’ve been looking for
Tears in the screen door (Tears in the screen door)
I’ve been waiting for
Another disaster (Another disaster)
[Verse 2]
Well I’m terrified
Like a kid in the sixties
Staring at the sky
Waiting for the bomb to fall
And it’s all a lie
What they say about stability
It scares me sometimes
The emptiness I see in my eyes
And all the kids' names I’ve ever liked
Are tied to tragedy
And I don’t want my children growing up to be
Anything like me
[Chorus]
I’ve been looking for
Tears in the screen door (Tears in the screen door)
I’ve been waiting for
Another disaster (Another disaster)
And I was kinda hoping you'd stay
I was kinda hoping you'd stay
[Bridge]
I keep a flashlight
And a small knife
In the corner of my bed stand
I keep a flashlight
And the train times
But you wouldn't understand
How could you understand?
Jesus Christ, I’m twenty-six
All the people I graduated with
All have kids
All have wives
All have people who care if they come home at night
Well, Jesus Christ, did I fuck up?
[Chorus]
I’ve been looking for
Tears in the screen door (Tears in the screen door)
I’ve been waiting for
Another disaster (Another disaster)
And I was kinda hoping you'd stay
I was kinda hoping you'd stay
I was kinda hoping you'd stay
Passing Through a Screen Door was written by Dan Campbell.
Passing Through a Screen Door was produced by Steve Evetts.
The Wonder Years released Passing Through a Screen Door on Wed Mar 27 2013.