Lyrics
Yeah!
Well remember the guy who ws a football star
He had it made with the ladies, but he never got far
Five years past, now he's gotten kind of fat
Working 8 days a week at a laundromat
With his momma and his daddy breathing down his neck
About everything he does so much it makes him sick
So he sits home alone, with the game on TV
As the crowd goes wild he said, "That coulda been me"
Just another day in suburbia
It's a beautiful day in suburbia
Best not let it get the best of you
Is it everything you thought it would be
Remember playing games at the rich kid's home
His dad owned a bank while his mom was alone
Every day with the mailman, the trash man, lawn guy
Kid didn't look a damn thing like his dad (I knew why)
He grew up, got a job making 80 grand a year
Had a wife and a kid all the guys called a queer
But his dad never knew, he was too blind to see
Guess it kinda ran in the family
Remember the girl down the street with the kids
That used to come outside, but she never did
Cuz she was trying to hide the bruises where her old man beat her
Cuz he hit her in the face with an old space heater
He came home drunk and tried to force sex on her
But he didn't see the .44 stuffed in the covers
So she waited 'til he came as he lie there naked
Before she blew his had off, she told him she'd been faking
All along, so long for everything you done wrong
Here's a bullet, go to hell, cuz it's where you belong"
Just another day in suburbia
Yeah, this is how we're living in suburbia
Best not let it get the best of you
Is it everything you want it would be
No one understands it
No one comprehends it
Guess you had to be there
From the outisde looking in
So I put my Outkast record on
Turn up the volume cuz I'm all alone
And scream away
Remember the cutest couple in the world
He was a punk and she was daddy's little girl
Graduation came and she wanted him to stay
But he had bigger, better dreams waiting out in L.A.
She cried and he cried as the plane flew away
She never ever wanted it to end this way
2 years later she reads in the news
He'd gone on to be big star but nobody knew
Cuz he changed up his name but his heart stayed the same
Cuz every song he wrote was about her, he claimed
But he never got to tell her cuz he died that year
From all of the coke and the pills and the beer
And the whole world cried, but just for one day
Cuz sooner or later the pain goes away
Just another day
Just another day
Just another day
Yup...
