well the party s no fun if you re not drinking and the bar is no fun if you re flyin straight sittin in the corner with a pen and paper like a journalist with a deadline date got an old suitcase full of journals and i used to try to use them as a reference point now i kinda realize that i run in circles run in circles with a black ballpoint well i ve got an idea if you wanna try it meet me in the yard by the barbeque pit we can take everything that we ve ever written make a great big pile and take a match to it we ll have a journal burning party we ll get a clean slate honey at the journal burning party see we ll write it down and then we ll burn it up we re going page for page up into flames march 28 1993 those words mean nothing to me november 5th 1994 i don t wanna read it no more you see i tried to reflect it just made me depressed so let s have a journal burning party we ll get a clean slate honey come on i always wanted to write a song and say come on so come on come on all right come on come on come on come on come on