Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand

Off of their 1st album Rocket. One of my favorite songs from the 90's. LYRICS:

Jan lays down and wrestles in her sleep
Moonlight spills on comic books
And superstars in magazines
An old friend calls and tells us where to meet
Her plane takes off from Baltimore
And touches down on Bourbon Street

We sit outside and argue all night long
About a god we've never seen
But never fails to side with me
Sunday comes and all the papers say
Ma Teresa's joined the mob
And happy with her full time job

Do do do do doo do

Am I alive or thoughts that drift away
Does summer come for everyone
Can humans do as prophets say
And if I die before I learn to speak
Can money pay for all the days I lived awake
But half asleep

Do do do do doo do x 2

A life is time, they teach us growing up
The seconds ticking killed us all
A million years before the fall
You ride the waves and don't ask where they go
You swim like lions through the crest
And bathe yourself on zebra flesh

I've been downhearted baby
I've been downhearted baby
Ever since the day we met

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[DeCrypedMonkey]

The time when this song came out I was in junior high and we had a lip singing contest at our school. There was this one hot girl I had a crush on but never had the courage to ask her out but managed to get her to lip sing with me for this. Didn't win but we had fun and we're still friends to this day...

[Allison C]

The very first time I heard this, I was 10, it was Summer, the song was new. I was in a psychiatric ward of a children's hospital. It was nighttime, and it came on the radio, and I fell in love. This song helped me a lot in my recovery. Now I'm 28 and this song still makes me smile. 

[jayatfreelance]

I know exactly how that feels! :)

[jayatfreelance]

Bless you!

[Denise Finch]

Good memories of my younger years.... Before life became so complicated. Takes me back...

[OgreProgrammer]

Things get better later in life. You are 20 now, and things are unsettled and uncertain, but that eases up as you enter your thirties, and life becomes quite pleasant by 40. Keep yourself in good health for those days, and you will have decades of peace. Good luck, ok?

[DaBiqShot]

FOUND DIS ON DA RANDOM RADIO SCANNER hahahaha!

[derrick thomas]

yeah mtv is a joke now, there is no good music like this now a days

[Xxrb15xX]

Great song

[jimidrix5]

i remember this shit on mtv... you know, when they used to play music videos?

[ericalwheelan]

That quite well describes how I felt when I finally discovered who was responsible for what turned out to be Steve Winwood's "Back in the High Life Again".

Though, I was a teenager myself when this particular tune came out.

Happiness will come and go. Don't let them tell you, though, that your 20's will be your very best years. Keep on looking forward. :)