Wonder Years, The - Passing Through A Screen Door Lyrics
Cigarette smoke dances back in the window,
And I can see the haze on the dome light
I'm conjuring ghosts on a forty hour ride home,
And they keep asking me what I'm doing with my life.
I'm feeling like I've fallen behind.
Well, the highway won
I'm listening to traffic reports one on one
Coming quietly undone.
I was born to run
Away from anything good.
An escape artist's son
Sun-drenched pavement in my blood
I've been looking for
Tears in the screen door (tears in the screen door).
I've been waiting for
Another disaster (another disaster).
Well I'm still afraid
Like a kid in the sixties
Staring at the sky
Waiting for the bomb to fall.
And it's all a lie
What they say about stability.
It scares me sometimes
The emptiness I see in my eyes.
And all the kids names I've ever liked recited tragedy.
Well, I don't want my children growing up to be anything like me.
I've been looking for
Tears in the screen door (tears in the screen door).
I've been waiting for
Another disaster (another disaster).
But I was kinda hoping you'd say.
I was kinda hoping you'd stay.
I keep a flashlight
And a small knife
In the corner of my bed stand.
I keep a flashlight
And the train times
But you wouldn't understand.
How could you understand?
Jesus Christ. I'm 26.
All the people I graduated with,
All have kids,
All have wives,
All have people who care if they come home at night.
Well, Jesus Christ, did I fuck up?
I've been looking for
Tears in the screen door (tears in the screen door).
I've been waiting for
Another disaster (another disaster).
But I was kinda hoping you'd stay.
I was kinda hoping you'd stay.
I was kinda hoping you'd stay.
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Wonder Years, The Passing Through A Screen Door Comments
Just a thought I had but it seems everyone thinks this song is about an early life crisis but I’ve always taken it as a character suffering from PTSD. It fits the theme of the album and Passing Through a Screen Door is even an acronym for PTSD. This is also supported by the lines about being terrified like a kid in the 60’s waiting for the bomb to fall and explains why he keeps a flashlight and a knife by his bed because he is left terrified from his time in the military. The army green jacket of the man in the music video also could maybe be a hint. Not 100% sure but there is strong evidence to support this idea.
I'm 27 and don't have a wife and kids yet.
I'll be 26 next month...and this hits hard.
Idk what it is ab this song..but I feel it deep down in my jimmies!
5 months until 26 and part of me dreads hitting that age even though I'm already feeling the same things at 25
i was kinda hoping you'd stay
Such a good song, and album. 35 and still feel this way...
Jesus Christ... IM TWENTY SIX *starts screaming at sudden realization of own mortality* 0:02:40
This song came out when I was 24 and it hits hard, then I see them live at 27 and it hits SO hard, I'm 30 now and still loving it like the first time I heard it.
The Wonder Years, Modern Baseball, The Front Bottoms, Angels and Airwaves, Explosions in the Sky, and that new band A Place To Be really get to me...
Still a banger
"I keep a Fleshlight and some KY in the corner of my bedstand"
Now I'm 26 and this song describes my freaking life
Jesus Christ, just turned 26!
Preparing myself from a trainwreck
I can't be saved
I really want this guys shoes.. is that bad ? Like they look so good anyone know what type or brand where ever I can find them ?? That would be amazing thanks in advance
My cousin lives in Lansdale! I remember taking that train into Philly! I know they're from there and that's fucking awesome!
Jesus Christ
I'm 16
All the people I've gone to school with
All have friends
All survive
All are happy and have things to look forward to in life
Well, Jesus Christ
Did I fuck up?
i’m 26 now, never hit so hard
Why does my favorite song by them have to have SEPTA in the whole video? like this song is generally depressing, but SEPTA inclusion makes me wanna jump off a bridge, or better yet in front of one of their shitty trains
Why not have septa in it loll
1:44 that's what i hope as well...
Just turned 26 today and saw these guys at the Worcester palladium last night! This was their 2nd to last encore. Such an amazing show!
no wonder this dudes sad look at his socks tf is he doing 1:05
My relationship ended and I was so unstable to the point where when I overdosed, I was so out of it all I remember was walking out of my school and almost getting hit by a truck crossing an intersection. I woke up in a hospital, and after wishing he would have stayed I'm glad he never came back.
This band is such a gem after this song I bought every album and I was not disappointed
My brother sent me this
If you like The Wonder Years, then you should give us a listen! Might dig it! https://youtu.be/yw_WfDOHpsU
What blows my mind more than how perfectly this song fits how I feel, is how the video captures it. When I try to explain my depression to people and my anxiety, I always say how I feel like I am sitting on a train. I am still while everything else flies by me. I get to see glimpses of beautiful things from time to time, but it's gone in a flash of dizzying motions.
Victoria, that's a pretty poetic way of describing anxiety and depression. I can relate. This song and "Most Days Aren't Bad Days" speak to me like the way you described... https://youtu.be/WZoGvFKPf30
"Jesus Christ, I’m twenty-six, all the people I've graduated with, all have kids, all have wives, all have people who care if they come home at night, well Jesus Christ.. did I fuck up?" How a few words can encapsulate my dread I feel daily.
I heard this as a 13 year old and it meant nothing to me , As an 18 year old I can feel the story of this song closing in.
Where did he even go? Seriously he took a Septa ride to just about nowhere.
I am 26 and basically still a child
I'm literally now just discovering these guys, and I feel like a total asshole for not having them on my radar prior til now.
No Soupy, I'm the one that fucked up.
taylor swift - "twenty two oh oooh"
blink-182 - "nobody likes you when youre twenty three"
the wonder years - "jesus christ im twenty six"
I'm 14 forever, if i make you believe; You won't be seventeen forever and we can get away with this tonight; You're not nineteen forever, pull yourself together; Amazing still it seems, I'll be twenty three.
I just finished high school and I hate hiw worried I am about my future since I never had a job before.
2:40 My life story.
I love this song it makes me so emotional and I'm 12 ..wow.
I grew up in Lansdale, this video is so nostalgic for me :)
https://youtu.be/9h66Q9fS-cE
Lemme hit you with my teenage white guy voice 10 seconds in says the teenage white girl.
I'm 26 and can 100% relate.
I fucked up man. :/
Other James Doyle didnt we all
The part about not wanting your kids to grow up like you hits home hard. If my Virgin ass ever manages to get laid and have children I wish them to be completely opposite of me. I want them to grow up confident, cool as hell and someone who grabs life by the balls. Not anxiety filled, scared, emotionally unstable as I am.
The Wonder Years & The Story So Far are tha Best Rock Groups from this Era!!!!!
34 and starting again. This song is pure poetry. I was 18 when Blink, New Found Glory etc came along. So glad pop punk has grown with me, never thought it would. Thank you TWY.
ely Sucks Ass but i don't wish him an unhappy rest of his life
Hard to pick a favorite Wonder Years song but this might be it
my life in 3:45...
When you have a one and a half year old son and you're singing along "I don't want my children growing up to be anything like me" And it hits you like a sack of bricks.
Damn invisible onion cutters.
NinjaTrickVideos you
probably aint that bad
this song always makes me cry lol
I love watching you tube it always has the latest music videos
This music video shouts such a powerful message.
Seriously man, it doesn't say much at face value, but it's really deep if you sit and contemplate it.
Is no one going to mention how beautiful these shots are taken? Amazing video and song overall.
not everyone has wife and kids at26, not at all!
he was talking about the people he graduated with
"Well, I don't want my children growing up to be anything like me."
If I have kids (which is extremely unlikely at this point), this is exactly how I feel.
First heard this at 25, now 28 and really wondering wtf
man, I don't wanna be the one to say this but, get your shit together.
William K when I first heard this I was a sperm now I'm a frog
Song is about a lot more than "getting your shit together"
No song has hit me more in the feels than this in recent memory. This is how I discovered and I can't think of a better song to have done it.
I take the train from Lansdale to Temple all the time, this is sooooo sick
...
Well... 38 year old here!
Still single, no kids, old stoned Motörhead fan forever and ever.
Nice song anyway...
I guarantee that train was late.
Reference to "Racing Trains"?? (: That song and "Most Days Aren't Bad Days" by A Place To Be always make me think about trains, haha. https://youtu.be/WZoGvFKPf30
That's septa ;) for ya
here cause 26
When this album dropped, I was staying in upstate PA for my cousins wedding in NJ. For a week I rode the trains back and forth, sometimes to NYC. I remember listening to this album (this song especially) on repeat. Fit the mood poetically.
Pretty neat how music can speak to us. I always put on this song or "Most Days Aren't Bad Days" by A Place To Be when I take a train anywhere. https://youtu.be/WZoGvFKPf30
I wonder if this is the same guy from their really old song Racing trains
I love this so much... everytime it hits like a brick to the face. 🤘❤
What did they find the one good Septa train in all of Philly?
Dylan Giallella looks like the regional rail possible west Trenton express towards downtown.
AMC Films old channel That’s the R5 line from Lansdale to Center City. One of the new trains.
MrUnderexcellent I see looked similar to one of my old commutes.
nobody likes you when your 26
Sequel to All My Friends Are In Bar Bands..
And they still haven't seen Dave
I've been listening to this song pretty much since it came out. The music video had an amazing theme, but I just wish that it resolved in some way. I just thought that it still left a bit more to be desired.
I've definitely realized that the older you get the more relatable this becomes
Kind of the reverse of most new punk - it's usually targeted at younger teens who haven't got a clue what's coming
That's the wonder years biggest strength I think. A lot of pop punk bands stop once they reach their mid 20's, but wonder years have really grown.
Yeah I'm about to be 30 in December and this is definitely relatable!
Now that I'm 26 this song hits me harder than ever 😅
Same...
I’m seeing TWY on my 26th birthday in Chicago...this song is gonna be so emotional when they play it.
Wait until you get thirty my friend.
@Isaac Mackey in this case you should listen to tellin lies by the menzingers
Turned 32 and this song still hits home.
*tears up from relatableness"
The Wonder Years, Modern Baseball, The Front Bottoms, Angels and Airwaves, Explosions in the Sky, and that new band A Place To Be really get to me...
i fucking love the wonder years more than anything
this song still gives me chills
music video is an accurate represention of my life
"I keep a fleshlight and some sex lube in the corner of my bedstand"
*mom walks in"
"You wouldn't understand mom!"
This band, this song, define my life!
the ataris reincarnation...great band!
If a better song was ever written please let me know
@Shay By The Day it's so good. Still gives me chills when I listen to it. If you let the whole album play in order it makes the song even more epic.
Preach!
The entire album “the upsides” ummm Cigarettes and Saints, Most of Suburbia.....
Great song but there are plenty better, anyway great great song.
Cigarettes and Saints
dis song emotional boi
uatafoki
THIS is pop-punk
Just found out about this band from the needle drop, love it :D
Anyone else notice that when the video goes back in time,( 2:25 ) the train still goes forward? Illuminati?
I hate the genre of today's generic pop punk but the wonder years is definitely the only exception.
EVERYTIME HE SAYS "WELL JESUS CHRIST...." I GET SO HYPE FOR THAT WHOLE FUCKING VERSE MAKES ME EMOTIONAL
+pop corn couple hundred people screaming it in a crowd after you spent 8 hours in the blazing hot sun just to see a 30 minute set made it sound like the greatest thing on earth
Man this gave me a new perspective on things. I was in a band when i was younger, and all i thought about was making music and making it big and not having to work a 9 to 5 job.These guys have it, travelling and making money doing what they love, and yet they long for what normal average people have. Guess you can't really have it all
Well this entire album is written under someone else's perspective. It's called the greatest generation for a reason. I'm sure they can relate to certain/many aspects though.
These guys were rad as fuck at warped
Yeah name your band after a classic tv sitcom
@Michael Joyce actually named after a paper that the lead man read in high school that happened to share a name with a tv show. btw the wonder years is a term like the golden years referring to young adulthood instead of old age
I miss warped... It was yesterday too
Oh Jesus Christ 🎶🎧 😍
Awesome 🙆
Listened to Wonder Years for most of a 34 hour bus ride from new york back to minneapolis. This came on when I was getting off the bus, and everyone on the bus had family to meet them and I just got off the bus and walked home. All I could think was holy shit this is pop-punk as fuck.
idk y this made me laugh! haha :)
Just made me tear up a bit.
i cry everytime i listen to this song
@James Harris Hmm. Well do U know some other songs similiar to this? Im really digging this emo pop shit!!!
dude...it's pop punk and i wouldn't classify it as emo since it's not describing a depressing situation, it just makes me cry. but i mean there other bands that are similar to this like neck deep or the story so far, modern baseball and real friends is considered emo punk.
@***** You said Neck Deep twice... as it should be ;)
+Kayno Splits Wigz this isn't emo or pop.
+Jacques Huskisson Real Friends >>> Neck deep, knuckle Puck, Seaway imo
I'm 26, this song speaks to me on every possible level.
+TeenageHeadcase dude, same! Did I fuck up?
TeenageHeadcase I'm turning 26 in 2 months and my wife left me about 3 months ago.did i fuck up?
TeenageHeadcase I'm 10 years younger and this speaks to me on every level. It feels like I'm already headed nowhere.
I'm almost 26
im just gonna fangirl over the silverliners?!?! <3 <3 <3