Miller, Rhett - Permanent Damage Lyrics






You were dreamin' of your mom's house
But it was also a spider web
Your best friend was sleepin'
In your momma's bed
You dad was doin' taxes
In his boxers on the floor
Hangin' out in the old house
Though he'd escaped from the web years before

Nobody wants to hear about your stupid dream
We don't even want to hear half the shit that happens in reality
Hey everybody has an inner life, everybody is super deep
Go back to sleep, go back to sleep
Nobody wants to hear about your stupid dream

You were dreamin' of a balcony
Hangin' on a cigarette
You were workin' on a whiskey
It was like you'd never quit
You daddy saw you in the window
And he was going, going, gone
Your best friend turned into a dog now
Curled up next to your sleeping mom

Nobody wants to hear about your stupid dream
We don't even want to hear half the shit that happens in reality
Hey everybody has an inner life, everybody is super deep
Go back to sleep, go back to sleep
Nobody wants to hear about your stupid dream

Don't wake me up–you might do permanent damage
Permanent damage
Don't wake me up–you might do permanent damage
Permanent damage

When I came to
I had spiders on my skin
I was stuck in a loop now
Wakin' up again and again and again and again and again
Thought It'd last forever
Then I saw your face
We were in a good place

Nobody wants to hear about my stupid dream
You don't even want to hear half the shit that happens in reality
Hey everybody has an inner life, everybody is super deep
Go back to sleep, go back to sleep
Nobody wants to hear about your stupid dream

Go back to sleep, go back to sleep
Nobody wants to hear about your stupid dream
Go back to sleep, go back to sleep
Nobody wants to hear about your stupid dream





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  1. J.... ....

    I wish I could be there to see you perform February in D.C.
    Some day soon I will be able to make it to a show though. Truth is, I'm a total disaster.
    🤙💔🤙

  2. F.... ....

    I see this being covered and covered, but this is going to be my favorite version dammit.

  3. r.... m....

    Love it! Excellent lyrics.

  4. C.... ....

    Destruction's version kills this. Like if metal is the only genre of music that matters

    C.... ....

    Do you realise that this is an original composition written and recorded by Rhett Miller?

    C.... ....

    DarthBigsby lol what a bafoon this cromlech guy is

  5. J.... R....

    For me he is a cross between Alejandro Escovedo and Bob Dylan.

  6. S.... O....

    I am obsessed

  7. m.... ....

    Great song. Definitely a bit of a different direction. I too hear the Kinks influence in here a bit. I like the way this feels very "alternative", and yet, at the same time I miss the strumming of Rhett's acoustic guitar. All I can say is the same thing I've been saying for the last 4 years: come back to the Largo on La Cienega dude! :D

  8. A.... C....

    The verse Roger Miller, The guitar melody (and tone) The Kinks, The bridge Radiohead. This is not to say this song isn't original and awesome, IT IS! I just hear these influences.

  9. T.... R....

    I listened to this 6 times, noticing different things, and I want another new song. I cannot count the times that I've, been forlorn, infatuated, confused, sorry, thrilled, self - deprecating, in love, or out.... i always end up either singing a line, or going for a walk and this is the only thing that makes me feel like I have people out there who know exactly how I feel, and will give me something to do in order to sing out what I mean.... that's rare without being just a witer, musician who's just not replying the same song that seems to be a go-to.
    Genius. Ive got 97's tattooed on me because it's a sound that's skin deep

    T.... R....

    Jen Kennedy I should get a 97s tat.

    T.... R....

    Jeez. Lighten up, dude.

  10. T.... R....

    Rhett is the kind of storyteller that you either want to be or are when no ones looking, with the perfect soundtrack EVERYTIME, the story gives you the soundtrack for when you feel the need to literally sing one of his. or the 97s songs when.... ever.
    Thank you for.... this.

  11. C.... J....

    The tone on that guitar riff is Kinks-esque.

  12. M.... 4....

    Awesome

  13. j.... d....

    Girls name, and the color of her eyes, street name and the phase of the moon, write em down in a beat up notebook. Yesss self referential lyrics!!!

    j.... d....

    so rhetty....

  14. K.... S....

    Cool guitar sound!