Homemade Music Lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

Homemade Music 

By: Jimmy Buffett, Michael Utley, Russell Kunkel 

1988 

I ran into an old friend of mine in Miami and I asked her where she had been all these years. She told me she had, "died and gone to the suburbs". The next day I read where the Japanese had bought CBS Records and figured that somehow these two events had to be related. 

I ain't no video king 

I still have to sing 

For my supper each night 

You stand on the benches 

I play in the trenches 

Beneath the big spotlights 

Lived in a suitcase for half of my years 

I got strange little voices that live in my ears 

Hall monster, mall monster 

I can't be the old me no more 

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Chorus: 

Homemade music ain't on the radio 

Homemade music searchin' high and low 

Homemade music where did all the good songs go 

Cookin' is a pleasure 

Singin' is a treasure 

That most don't find 

There ain't no harm in tellin' 

I likes to eat my melon 

Right on down to the rind 

I had a hippie girlfriend when I was a kid 

She died and went to the suburbs most of 'em did 

Raisin' puppies, having yuppies 

Where did all the wild ones go 

Chorus: 

Homemade music ain't on the radio 

Homemade music jam it in, close the door 

Homemade music where did all the good songs go 

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First there were records then cassettes and CDs 

Managers and lawyers then came the Japanese 

But homemade music still making sense to me 

(sense to me, sense to me, sense to me) 

Chorus: 

Homemade music is funky and nice 

Homemade music skates on very thin ice 

Homemade music is part of my philosophy 

Chorus: 

Homemade music ain't on the radio 

Homemade music jam it in, close the door 

Homemade music where did all the good songs go 

Homemade music, give me my homemade music 

Homemade music, should be on the radio 

Don't dig that reg'lar bunk 

The Neville brothers got the funk 

And homemade music should be on the radio