Unreleased Songs

Vanity Project Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.So. Cal.

Lyricist:Steven Page

It's even worse than I had feared
Please go away there's no one here
It's just a lonely day in sunny Southern California

Every day just looks the same
Another moves back east in shame
Another lonely day in sunny Southern California

Too old to lie about my age
Too young to die upon the stage
Another lonely day in sunny Southern California

Put your hand in mine
I'll introduce you to my pets, oh yeah
This one's called 'They're Lying to Us All'
This one's called 'Regret', it is the patron saint
Of Southern California

What could have been and what never was
Conspire against us all because
They love a lonely day in sunny Southern California
Another lonely day in sunny Southern California


2.Hit And Run

Lyricist:Stephen Duffy, Steven Page

Protest song
Everybody sang along
Now they pan and scan
And edit out the everyman

Nothing matters, consensus scatters
It's all irrelevant now
A soul redemption, the last temptation
Goodbye, farewell, ciao

Oh, yeah
Hit and run
Everybody knows who won
If you're the chosen son
Then you don't even need a gun

The music died
The singer lied
The market lives
The chairmen hide

I have heard the Sotto Voce
Threats are coming true
Whilst disenfranchised
Franchise holders
Take it all from you

Oh, yeah
Hit and run
Everybody knows who won
If you're the chosen son
Then you don't even need a gun

Oh, yeah
Hit and run
Everybody knows who won
If you're the chosen son
Then you don't even need a gun

Hit and run
Everybody knows who won
If you're the chosen son
Then you don't even need a gun


3.By The Roadside

Lyricist:Stephen Duffy, Steven Page

She was the most
Beautiful woman I'd ever known
She was the most
Beautiful woman I'd ever known

She died by the roadside, I cried
She was a princess, defenseless
And now, there's a senseless crime

She was the most
Beautiful woman he'd never known
She was the most
Beautiful woman he'd never known

She died by the roadside
He tried to deny that he was guilty
Till he called anonymously

When they found him asleep in his car
At the side of a road with her dreams in a jar
He knew from the cuffs on the wrists
That he'd never existed till now

After searching her place
They dismissed his case
They'd found her note
That's all she wrote


4.Glitterbug

Lyricist:Stephen Duffy, Steven Page

Glitterbug, with your mind everywhere
I'm anywhere you want me to be
Take your time but take care
For in the end we're all history

Don't be shy, let everyone or me at least inside
You'll be fine, you'll be fine in the morning sunshine
Fine, you will find if you're mine, you might be free
We shall see

Glitterbug, with your eyes through the gray
There's something that I need you to say
Could be high, go away
Or anything that makes it okay

From the ground you are the only star that shines tonight
If you go you must know that you'll shine forever
Come if you're mine, you will shine eternally
Wait and see

From the bar to the stars
Through the haze of a thousand wasted days
You must be tired, you've burned so bright
So goodnight, goodnight Glitterbug


5.Wilted Rose

Lyricist:Stephen Duffy, Steven Page

I almost cried on the day my country died
I almost tried to care
They built a wall to protect them from us all
We should have left them there

Revolution is the first to go
The rest is forced to stay

Shall I cast this out, this wilted rose?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no
Like Pierre Trudeau's walk out in the snow
Can it be time to leave?

I spent my youth thinking people spoke the truth
Now, it's hard to think
Was I naive to say I do believe
That none of us should sink?

They sold us out and they sold us short
And we're the one's who'll have to pay

Shall I cast this out, this wilted rose?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no
Like Pierre Trudeau's walk out in the snow
Can it be time to leave?

Don't go, you know it's all
The same to me these days
I swear it's hard to care

Revolution is the first to go
The rest is forced to stay

Shall I cast this out, this wilted rose?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no
Like Pierre Trudeau's walk out in the snow
Can it be time to leave?

Shall I cast this out, this wilted rose?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no
Like Pierre Trudeau's walk out in the snow
Can it be time to leave?

Don't go, you know it's all
The same to me these days
I swear it's hard to care


6.Everything's The Same

Lyricist:Stephen Duffy, Steven Page

Easy to stumble, harder to fall
Easy to bow to the flag on the wall
I pledge my allegiance to nothing at all

And on the news they said the world has changed
But you and I are staying home again
And even though we're scared
Everything's the same, everything's the same

You wanted marriage, you wanted fame
You wanted an hyphen after your name
They put it in neon but nobody came

And on the news they said the world has changed
But you and I are staying home again
And even though we're scared
Everything's the same

I know you were in the air while I was below
Fourteenth street with moondust in my air
Do you know how it's going to end?
Underneath the table with your friend

And on the news they said the world has changed
But you and I are staying home again
And even though we're scared
Everything's the same, everything's the same