Story Behind The Song

I wanted to write a song about writing a lot of relationship songs -- this is kind of how it came out.

Song Description

Poppy bittersweet tune with some humor and a balanced view of a breakup from above -- the narrator talks about it as if he's building a diorama of the failed relationship: "Here's a TV sets, here's the lights down low, here's an empty house, here's a radio..."

Lyrics

ok
the story so far
girl breaks boy's heart
boy takes revenge
girl takes a righteous offense
boy licks his wounds
watches cartoons

here's a tv set
here's the lights down low
here's an empty house
here's a radio
plays the same old song
tells of love gone wrong
like the end of the world
is boy meets girl

ok
it continues like this
girl talks through spite
boy pleads the fifth
boy feels alone and confused
girl just feels used

but here's a new red dress
here's a dim-lit bar
here's a line of shots
while the new jukebox
plays the same old song...

maybe it's the other way 'round
it hardly seems to matter now
no one here is losing out

here's an unwashed dish
here's a tarnished ring
here's a wasted year
here's to more like these
it's the same old song....
credits
from Here Goes Nothing, released 16 April 2011
written by Paul Tabachneck © 2011 Fleshyourcoldhousein Music (ASCAP)