AVRIL LAVIGNE LYRICS
"Sk8er Boi"
He was a boy
She was a girl
Can i make it any more obvious
He was a punk
She did ballet
What more can i say
He wanted her
She'd never tell secretly she wanted him as well
But all of her friends
Stuck up their nose
They had a problem with his baggy clothes
He was a skater boy
She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
She had a pretty face
But her head was up in space
She needed to come back down to earth
5 years from now
She sits at home
Feeding the baby she's all alone
She turns on tv
Guess who she sees
Skater boy rockin up MTV
She calls up her friends
They already know
And they've all got
Tickets to see his show
She tags along
Stands in the crowd
Looks up at the man that she turned down
He was a skater boy
She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
Now he's a super star
Slamming on his guitar
Does your pretty face see what he's worth?
He was a skater boy
She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
Now he's a super star
Slamming on his guitar
Does your pretty face see what he's worth?
Sorry girl but you missed out
Well tough luck that boy's mine now
We are more than just good friends
This is how the story ends
Too bad that you couldn't see,
See the man that boy could be
There is more that meets the eye
I see the soul that is inside
He's just a boy
And I'm just a girl
Can I make it any more obvious
We are in love
Haven't you heard
How we rock each others world
I'm with the skater boy
I said see you later boy
I'll be back stage after the show
I'll be at the studio
Singing the song we wrote
About a girl you used to know
I'm with the skater boy
I said see you later boy
I'll be back stage after the show
I'll be at the studio
Singing the song we wrote
About a girl you used to know |
E-Crap Slams Avril
Sorry, but she brought this on herself.
Unless you've been asleep under a rock the last year, you have at least heard of Avril Lavigne. Along with Michelle Branch and Vanessa Carlton, she represents the "anti" Britney Spears/Christina Aguilera type female music movement. Avril, however, is a skater chick, and represents that part of today's youth circle.
Avril is also 17, and it is doubtful that anyone over 17 is taking her seriously.
For starters, check out the lyrics to her new hit, "Sk8er Boi" which is the #1 requested video on MTV, and among the most requested songs on top radio stations nationwide. I only bolded some of the choice phrases, ones that might have taken a scribble or two to rhyme. Sorry, but even for a 17 year old, the lyrics are pathetic. Granted, I'm not 17, but I write better lyrics when I fill out my bank slips (yet Avril's bank slips contain bigger numbers than mine, due to those lyrics). And when I was 17, at least my writing didn't seem so, well, immature.
Scary.
However, Avril snarls at immaturity. In a recent interview, I read how much of her life she puts into her lyrics.
"I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be myself-I write what I feel, I never worry what others think, " Avril is quoted as saying. "I'm gonna dress what's me, I'm gonna act what's me and I'm gonna sing what's me."
Again, scary.
And it gets scarier. What you are about to read are actual quotes from Avril. Please, do you even think WE could make these things up?
"In this past year I've really grown as a writer. 'Complicated' wasn't written about anyone in particular. It is basically about life, people being fake and relationships."
As to one of her favorite tracks, "Losing Grip," she says, "That is definitely one of my ex-boys-he didn't give me what I needed emotionally." Avril laughs, "It doesn't matter now, and plus I got a good song out of it."
Scary, scary, scary.
Let's see, you're 17, cannot write a lick (IMHO - even though you win awards and sell millions of CD's), and claim you wrote a song because your ex-boyfriend did not give you what you need emotionally?
What the heck do you even KNOW about what you need emotionally?
Question, where will we see Avril in five years? I have some ideas? It will be interesting to see how the "Anti-Britney" matures. Britney, now 19 (or 20) sings "I'm not a girl, not quite a woman." We anxiously await the time when Avril can no longer write about skater boys (sorry, the other spelling is just too annoying to write again).
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