Permanent Vacation
Lyrics
Gotta get away..gotta get away
I’m on a permanent vacation
Nothing left to move
I want a revelation
Nothing left to prove
I could take it with me
Leave you all behind
Got some kind of feeling
Burnin’ on my mind
Sleeping late in the morning
Stay out all night long
Every day is like the one before
I’m going wrong
I’m on a permanent vacation
Nothing left to lose
I want a revelation
Nothing left to prove
I can take it with me
Leave you all behind
Got some kind of feeling
Burnin on my mind
There’s only one thing you can do
This I gotta do
I got nothing to win…nothing to lose
Nothing left to prove
One thing to do
Well, I’m on a permanent vacation
Permanent vacation
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BODYCOUNT AT TYRONE’S (Bootleg LP)BRIG 007
released: unknown
Recorded: Tyrone\s Athens, 10/4/80
- 1. Just A Touch
- 2. A Girl Like You
- 3. Dangerous Times
- 4. There She Goes Again
- 5. All The Right Friends
- 6. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 7. Body Count
- 8. Hippy Hippy Shake
- 9. Action
- 10. Narrator
- 11. Pretty Girl (Hey, Hey Nadine)
- 12. Gardening At Night
- 13. Scheherazade
- 14. Lisa Says
- 15. Mystery To Me
- 16. (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone
- 17. Permanent Vacation
Chronic Murmurings (Bootleg LP)TRW 1905
released: unknown
Recorded: Wuxtury demos (6/6/1980), IRS Demos (1981), Outtakes
- 1. Dangerous Times
Wuxtury demos - 2. All The Right Friends
Wuxtury demos - 3. A Different Girl
Wuxtury demos - 4. Narrator
Wuxtury demos - 5. Just A Touch
Wuxtury demos - 6. Baby I
Wuxtury demos - 7. Mystery To Me
Wuxtury demos - 8. Permanent Vacation
Wuxtury demos - 9. 1,000,000
IRS Demos - 10. Ages Of You
IRS Demos - 11. Gardening At Night
IRS Demos - 12. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
IRS Demos - 13. Stumble
IRS Demos - 14. Catapult
Chronic Town Outtakes - 15. Wolves, Lower
Chronic Town Outtakes - 16. Laughing
Chronic Town Outtakes - 17. Romance
Chronic Town Outtakes - 18. Shaking Through
Chronic Town Outtakes - 19. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
Chronic Town Outtakes - 20. Stumble
Chronic Town Outtakes - 21. Wolves, Lower
Chronic Town Outtakes - 22. 1,000,000
Chronic Town Outtakes - 23. Windout
Reckoning Outtakes - 24. Just A Touch
Reckoning Outtakes
Georgia Peaches Ripe! (Bootleg LP)REM-7
released: unknown
- 1. Rave On
- 2. Burning Down
- 3. A Girl Like You
- 4. Get On their Way (What If We Give It Away?)
- 5. There She Goes Again
- 6. Pretty Persuasion
- 7. Body Count
- 8. A Different Girl
- 9. Action
- 10. Narrator
- 11. Hey! Hey! Nadine
- 12. Baby I
- 13. Permanent Vacation
- 14. Radio Free Europe
- 15. Sitting Still
- 16. Dangerous Times
- 17. All The Right Friends
- 18. Shaking Through
- 19. Hey Little Girl
- 20. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 21. Windout
- 22. Gardening At Night
- 23. Scheherazade
- 24. Lisa Says
- 25. Mystery To Me
- 25. White Tornado
Ripe! Georgia Peaches (Bootleg LP)REM-7
released: unknown
Recorded: Live at Tyrone\s, April 10, 1981
- 1. Rave On
- 2. Burning Down
- 3. A Girl Like You
- 4. Get On their Way (What If We Give It Away?)
- 5. There She Goes Again
- 6. Pretty Persuasion
- 7. Body Count
- 8. A Different Girl
- 9. Action
- 10. Narrator
- 11. Hey! Hey! Nadine
- 12. Baby I
- 13. Permanent Vacation
- 14. Radio Free Europe
- 15. Sitting Still
- 16. Dangerous Times
- 17. All The Right Friends
- 18. Shaking Through
- 19. Hey Little Girl
- 20. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 21. Windout
- 22. Gardening At Night
- 23. Scheherazade
- 24. Lisa Says
- 25. Mystery To Me
- 25. White Tornado
Ripe! The Georgia Peaches (Bootleg LP)CYCLER-T-80
released: unknown
Recorded: Live at Tyrone\s, April 10, 1981
- 1. Rave On
- 2. Burning Down
- 3. A Girl Like You
- 4. Get On their Way (What If We Give It Away?)
- 5. There She Goes Again
- 6. Pretty Persuasion
- 7. Body Count
- 8. A Different Girl
- 9. Action
- 10. Narrator
- 11. Hey! Hey! Nadine
- 12. Baby I
- 13. Permanent Vacation
- 14. Radio Free Europe
- 15. Sitting Still
- 16. Dangerous Times
- 17. All The Right Friends
- 18. Shaking Through
- 19. Hey Little Girl
- 20. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 21. Windout
- 22. Gardening At Night
- 23. Scheherazade
- 24. Lisa Says
- 25. Mystery To Me
- 25. White Tornado
20th Century Boys – Vol.2 (Bootleg CD Album)released: unknown
Recorded: tracks 1-7 were recorded live at Stichcraft in Athens on 9/30/83. Tracks 8-26 were recorded live at Tyrone\s Club, Athens, GA, October 4, 1980.
- 1. Rave On
- 2. 20th Century Boy
- 3. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 4. Crazy
- 5. That Beat
- 6. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 7. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 8. Just A Touch
- 9. A Girl Like You
- 10. Dangerous Times
- 11. There She Goes Again
- 12. All The Right Friends
- 13. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 14. Body Count
- 15. Hippy Hippy Shake
- 16. Action
- 17. Narrator
- 18. Pretty Girl (Hey, Hey Nadine)
- 19. Gardening At Night
- 20. Scheherazade
- 21. Lisa Says
- 22. Mystery To Me
- 23. (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone
- 24. Permanent Vacation
Early Movements (Bootleg CD Album)COP 010
released: unknown
Recorded: (Tracks 1-11) Chronic Town LP Early Studio Outtakes; (Tracks 12-19)1980 Wuxtury Demos; (Tracks 20-21) Remixes.
- 1. Catapult
- 2. Wolves, Lower
- 3. Laughing
- 4. Romance
- 5. Shaking Through
- 6. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 7. Stumble
- 8. Wolves, Lower
- 9. 1,000,000
- 10. Windout
- 11. Just A Touch
- 12. Dangerous Times
- 13. All The Right Friends
- 14. A Different Girl
- 15. Narrator
- 16. Just A Touch
- 17. Baby I
- 18. Mystery To Me
- 19. Permanent Vacation
- 20. Drive
Primary Remix - 21. Drive
Secondary Remix
File Under Kudzu (Bootleg CD Album)BPP-001
released: unknown
Recorded: January 1982, Fridays, Greensboro, NC + Bonus Tracks.
- 1. Gardening At Night
- 2. 9-9
- 3. Windout
- 4. New Song
- 5. There She Goes Again
- 6. Sitting Still
- 7. That Beat
- 8. Pretty Persuasion
- 9. Mystery To Me
- 10. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 11. Ages Of You
- 12. Catapult
- 13. Shaking Through
- 14. Laughing
- 15. Romance
- 16. Ghost Riders In The Sky
- 17. Permanent Vacation
- 18. 1,000,000
- 19. Wolves, Lower
- 20. Radio Free Europe
- 21. All The Right Friends
Bonus Track - 22. Wait
Bonus Track - 23. Body Count
Bonus Track


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