Romie Adler's Musical Guide

Chapter 28: "No Place Like Home" - Marianas Trench

Lyrics:

There's no yellow
Bricks to follow back and
Run from that disaster
Familiar sins come crashing in
And sever forever and after
My old friend, it's time I leave you here
For once, for all in frozen alabaster
Believe me

There's
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
There's
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
(Oh oh oh)

A shallow grave where I can keep it safe
Or hide away, for just in case I need it
My old friend, it's time to say goodbye again
No need to tell me where you've been
I feel it
Shallow graves for shallow hearts
For pick-me-ups and fall-aparts
For promises that never started right


Carolina, Carolina, tell me how
I'm gonna get down from here?
You only ever just disappear
But I can't let you go
Carolina, Carolina, tell you how am
I getting the ending right
I know I started it wrong but I
I think that it's as easy as 1, 2, 3
Do you see what I do?
Truth or dare, yes, I double dare you
You, you, me, now I think you got it right

There's
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
There's
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
There's
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
There's
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
There's
NO PLACE LIKE HOME

Oh, another day on the assembly line
Everybody better march in time
Cause the factory don't care why
You've been saying coulda, shoulda, woulda
Oh, another day on the assembly line
Everybody better march in time
Cause the factory don't care why
You've been saying coulda, shoulda, woulda
Oh, another day on the assembly line

(Toy soldiers will you follow?)
Everybody better march in time
(Toy soldiers will you follow?)
Cause the factory don't care why
(Toy soldiers will you follow?)
You've been saying coulda, shoulda, woulda
(Toy soldiers will you follow?)
Oh, another day on the assembly line
(Toy soldiers will you follow?)
Everybody better march in time
(Toy soldiers will you follow?)
'Cause the factory don't care why
(Toy soldiers will you follow?)
I face the music when it's di-ei-ire!


This is true love, ever after
(Aaah, aaah aaah aaah)
This is true love, ever after
(Aaah, aaah aaah aaah)
True love! ever after!
This is true love ever after
This is true love, ever after

Once upon a time
This place was beautiful and mine
But now it's just a bottom line
(There's no)
Yellow bricks and happily
Ever after we lived
The End

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       I woke up the next morning, with the worst feeling of dread. What if Zane and I were to die tomorrow? Those words of 'fuck you' will be the last thing both of us will remember being said. I know that people say, 'they won't remember that after they're gone, they'll remember the good times you had together.'
       In that case, I really hope not. We had two different attempts at a suck-a-bag-of-dicks relationship. I' doomed for all eternity, hell is an awful place to be, I'm coming to realize. It's too late to go and try to make things right, because I've go to catch a flight back to L.A., and Zane is probably halfway to Virginia for the bands next show, by now.
       As I sat on the plane, I gout, 'how am I gonna get myself back home, when I don't even know where home is.' I've moved out of Myles', so I can't go back there, even if we were on speaking terms. I'm not going to go crawling back to the Jones', I'm not ready just yet. There's only one other person in L.A. who I know will welcome me into their home.