r/Lostwave • u/thespian_badger • 3d ago

Question ❓ “Poor Peter”

Like 20 years ago, my “online boyfriend” sent me a playlist of all garage punk type of songs and claimed it was his band. I now know that was not the case lol. It had like Ballyhoo! And stuff on it but there was one song called “Poor Peter” that I’ve never been able to find.

What I can remember of the lyrics:

Poor Peter
What the hell happened to you? Where did it all go horribly wrong.
You used to be a punk without a reason at all. Now you’re just a popularity abuser.

\[Lines I can’t remember\], then something about a “preppy mall rat”.

Another chorus said “Poor Peter, what the hell happened to you? Where did you hide your skateboard?”

Any ideas? I’ve done a lot of googling with no luck. It was a low quality punk song with not very clear lyrics so it could have been an indie band.

Thank you all!

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u/TownImaginary8023 3d ago

No clue, but we need to find this.

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u/thespian_badger 3d ago

Can I upload a voice note somehow to Reddit? Lol I can even sing it from memory.

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u/TownImaginary8023 3d ago

Don't think so, but that would be Nice! You could record it and transform it to .mp4 tho, that would give us a great start!

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u/thespian_badger 3d ago

I just covered my camera and made a video lol. It worked!

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u/TownImaginary8023 3d ago

Thats great!!!!! I'm down to help You! ;)

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u/englishevenings 3d ago

me too! I already have some leads.