10,000 BANDS

( Dufay )

Don't wanna sing about dreams

Or star struck plights

Rock and roll memories

And those burnt out nights

Swallowing splinters of life

And coughing up fear

Then I hear my strung out Stratocaster blues away

Yeah

I played guitar

In ten thousand bands

With nothing to show

But bloodied hands

I played my leads

Screaming high and loud

I've been fuzzed and phased

And echoed and synthesized

Ten thousand bands and me

Ten thousand bands and me

Just wanna sing a little sing song

And I'll have some fun

But my fine fretted friends in my band

They're turning on me

They say stick to pop

It's gonna take me to the top ten

With a bullet

Then I hear my strung out Stratocaster

Blues away... yeah

I played guitar

In ten thousand bands

With nothing to show

But bloodied hands

I played my leads

Screaming high and loud

I've been fuzzed and phased

And echoed and synthesized

Ten thousand bands and me

Ten thousand bands and me

My eyes too open

Too vulnerable

Too full of chemicals

And a lotta... lotta booze

With the three J's gone

They've left an open book

If I could read between the lines

Then I could surely make the grade