The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years
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The Wonder Years & Laura Stevenson
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Following “Passing Through a Screen Door” in the third song on the album Soupy sings about how he would like to move back to/grow old in his home town of Philadelphia and how he wouldn’t mind dying while living in the suburbs.
The song shows homesickness and nostalgia for the band’s hometown, a com...
[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 smokes
And the faintest hint of Coppertone
I'm watching shorebirds circle in real close
(I know you're gonna go, just please leave me a note)
(I left because you asked me to)
[Chorus]
Operator, take me home, I don't know where else to go
I wanna die in the suburbs
A heart attack, shovelling snow, all alone
If I die, I wanna die in the suburbs
[Verse 2]
These northeast winters make boys into men
Staring out at snow-ploughed mountains
In the parking lots of churches
The city just felt worn out
No strength to pick our hearts off the ground
We watched the '92 Birds
Take the field without Jerome Brown
(We keep quiet when it gets bad)
(We don't talk about the setbacks)
(They only hear it when your voice cracks)
[Chorus]
Operator, take me home, I don't know where else to go
I wanna die in the suburbs
A heart attack, shovelling snow, all alone
If I die, I wanna die in the suburbs
[Bridge]
I wanna die in the suburbs, I wanna die in the suburbs
I wanna die in the suburbs, I wanna die in the suburbs
I wanna die in the suburbs
(You start remembering...)
I wanna die in the suburbs
(...the anniversaries of the bad things)
I wanna die in the suburbs
(You start remembering...)
I wanna die in the suburbs
(...the anniversaries of the bad things)
[Chorus]
Operator, take me home, I don't know where else to go
I wanna die in the suburbs
A heart attack, shovelling snow, all alone
If I die, I wanna die in the suburbs
Operator, take me home, I don't know where else to go
I wanna die in the suburbs
A heart attack, shovelling snow, all alone
If I die, I wanna die in the suburbs
I wanna die in the suburbs
We Could Die Like This was written by Dan Campbell.
We Could Die Like This was produced by Steve Evetts.
The Wonder Years released We Could Die Like This on Tue May 14 2013.
Dan ‘Soupy’ Campbell specifically singled out this song in a 2014 interview with JUMP, saying that “We Could Die Like This” was an attempt to capture Philadelphia’s “blue collar, hard-working, caustic” culture in a song.
“I speak directly and purposefully toward the 1992 Eagles season after Jerome...