Hammerbox was an American grunge band from Seattle, Washington. The band formed around 1990 and disbanded in 1994 when lead singer Carrie Akre left the band to form Goodness.
Hammerbox formed around 1989 in Seattle and released their first LP, Hammerbox on independent label C/Z Records. This album earned them the opportunity to sign to a major label, A&M Records, with whom they released their second album. However, despite the band's appearance at rock festival Endfest in Bremerton, Washington to support their album, it did not sell well and the band was dropped by the label. James Atkins left the band in early 1994, and the rest of the members followed suit shortly thereafter. Carrie Akre formed Goodness, while Harris Thurmond went on to form Anodyne (later renamed Marfa Lights) with That Petrol Emotion singer Steve Mack. Thurmond formed Orbiter in 2000, and later Kingsley in 2003. Live EMP Skychurch, Seattle, WA, an album containing live material from the band's reunion show, was released in 2005.
Touch me again
I told you
In the end
You would never pass my way
Again
Again
Again
I said I said I'd never cry
You said you'd never lie
Here we are, here we go
Again
Again
Again
Round and round and round it goes
Where it stops
No one knows
Here we are, here we go
Again, oh no.
Drifting away, day after day
Hole in my heart, won't go away
Drifting away, day after day
Hole in my heart, won't go away
Drifting away, day after day
Hole in my heart, won't go away
Drifting away, day after day
Hole in my heart, won't go away
Hit me again
No I told you
near the end
You would never pass my way
Again
Again
Again
I said I'd never cry
you said you'd never lie
Here, yes, here we go
Again
Drifting away, day after day
Hole in my heart, won't go away
Drifting away, day after day
Hole in my heart, won't go away
Drifting away, day after day
Hole in my heart, won't go away
Drifting away, day after day
Hole in my heart, it won't go away, yeah
Here I am
Open-eyed
Lost my mind
Say goodbye
In my mind
I see time
Hope to have
Some peace of mind
De de deh
I'm around this time
And I see
all around the world
And I hope
I'll get by somehow cause
I don't know how to fly
Clean out time
Open your eyes
There lies a place in the ground for me
I can wait to be there
We'll get by
Touch and feel
Promise me
For all times
De de deh
I'm around this time
And I see
All around the world
And I hope
I'll get by somehow cause
I don't know how to fly
I'm around I'm around
And I see all around this time
And I hope I'll always get by cause
I don't know how to fly
We get by
All alone
I'll be here
On my own
here again
You don't care
We've been
On that road
All alone
And we tried
All the time
Every day
I don't mind
If we stay here
And I'll find
I think I'm done with the sofa
I think I'm done with the hall
I think I'm done with the kitchen table, baby
Let's go outside (let's go outside)
in the sunshine
I know you want to, but you cant say yes
let's go outside
in the moonshine
take me to the places that I love best
So my angels she says, don't you worry
'bout the things they're saying, yeah
got no friends in high places
and the game that you gave away
wasn't worth playing
let's go outside
in the sunshine
I know you want to, but you can't say yes
let's go outside
in the meantime
take me to the places that I love best
And yes I've been bad
doctor won't you do with me what you can
you see I think about it all the time
twenty four seven
You say you want it, you got it
I never really said it before
there's nothing here but flesh and bone
there's nothing more, nothing more
there's nothing more
Back to nature, just human nature
getting on back to -
I think I'm done with the sofa
I think I'm done with the hall
I think I'm done with the kitchen table, baby
Let's go outside
in the sunshine
I know you want to, but you cant say yes
let's go outside
in the moonshine
take me to the places that I love best
and yes I've been bad
doctor won't you do with me what you can
you see I think about it all the time
I'd service the community
(but I already have you see!)
I never really said it before
there's nothing here but flesh and bone
there's nothing more, nothing more
there's nothing more
let's go outside
dancing on the D-train baby
when the moon is high
and the grass is jumpin'
come on, just keep on funkin'
You see her passing by
You wonder where she comes from
friends say she passes at night
and it's somewhere under the moon
though she's a thousand faces
she's shown you hers before
unforgettable the time you spent
and it was somewhere under the moon
Into another world she took away for awhile
blue was the color she wore and it covered you under the
moon
look for her in a crowd
you know she's there somewhere
you'll wait for her until the end
Here we are...
Passing round the stories
All the things they taught us
Well, yeah, they taught us well now
We've only got this moment
and some would about it,
"It isn't much"
Yeah, it isn't much now
Sit around the fire
In my mind
And who am I
And who can knock me if I killin' time?
No more apologies
For things I can't explain
And when you look inside
You see the reasons why
Don't you?
I know myself
I've long been blind
And I know why
And I see all the reasons why inside
Here we are
Waiting for the answers
In our TV and our radio
Gone by, oh my
I know my feel
They've long been blind
And they see all the reasons why in time.
Here we are...
Waiting for the answers
And a time until the radio will read our mind
No more apologies
For things I can't explain
And when you look inside
You see the reasons why
Close the door and run your eyes
I hope you never glamorize
The bad times
Oh the bad
She will run and she will hide
And I will never understand
Anything
Treat you bad and treat you right
Given everything
But I will be alone inside the box
I wish you well
Without me
Whether or not you make it
I'll never see
I'll be right here
Safe and free
There I was
Taken all that you had
But I will be right here
Safe and free
And you will shoot up and relax
You're in between
Close the door and scream to me
And swear you'll never leave behind
Anything
Treat you bad and treat you right
Given everything
But I will be alone inside the box
I wished you well
Without me
Whether or not you make it
I will never see
I'll be right here
Safe and free
There I was
Taken all that you have
But I'll be right here
Safe
Taken it in
You know that it's wrong
Shootin it up
You know that it's wrong
I asked you again
You said that I'm wrong
You told me I'm wrong
I'm wrong
Treat you bad and treat you right
Given everything
Swear you'll never
Swear you'll never
Leave behind
Anything
Without me
When the world takes a bite
Left totally in the blur of the last night
Then and now don't make much sense
Twisted souls are the only evidence
I wonder why I do the things I do
One plus one has always meant
More than two
Happy, and then content
Change the channel and now I'm bent
On leaving you
On leaving you
On leaving you
On leaving you
There are three sides to every coin
Mine and yours and the one next door
Give a little ask for too much now
Even though I couldn't ask for more
So as this clears away
I can remember the place but not the face
Oh things so close and when I'm so close to nothing
But that's how things go
When three is two
When three is two
When three is two, two, yeah
When three is two, two, yeah ...
Hate you
Never would
Never ever could
I find, I find
That I never would
I see, I see
Right through your lies
Through your lies
Turn around
And I find that I never would
I stare, I stare
And I never could
I see, I see
Right through your lies
You treat me like summer sunshine
Takes you all the way around
To find out
That you're just like sunshine
You lost, yeah you lost
'Cause you never stood your ground
You waited
For something my sunshine
Oh no
The colors are black and gold
The dawn,
The dawn is asking for more
She wants
Wants to be treated whole
Hey, yeah, she wants
To be loved like sunshine
You hoped you'd never be wrong
You hoped you'd someday belong
To someone, somewhere, somehow
And stand up
They taught you how to deceive
Never threaten or you'll be beat
And no one said it'd be this bad
Oh no
The colors are black and gold
The dawn,
The dawn is asking for more
She wants
Wants to be treated whole
Hey, yeah, she wants
To be loved like sunshine
Just like sunshine
Oh like sunshine, yeah
Here, yeah
The colors are black and gold
The dawn,
The dawn is asking for more
She wants
Wants to be treated whole
Hey, yeah, she wants