You know my bestfriend,
Just left yesterday and I know
I know your girlfriend,
Couldn't explain, why she moved away
Things are so the same,
That all I can really bring
Myself to say is that I know

And yeah just outside,
The conversations getting old.
And I know they're right,
Betting smokes that our end is just as close.
Things are so the same.

And remember when they said

When I think of how things
Are right now it feels like
Yeah it all feels like some
Kind of circus show
And how this toen it keeps
You pinned down with the
Same song from years
Ago and y'know this place
Will chew you up and spit
You out before you go

And when they drag you
Kicking and screaming
From the scene you know
It's time to leave
When I think of this town
Right now it's filled with

Don't call me Rich, don't call
Me George just call me Cheez
That's who I am. Civilized? Yeah
Until the keg runs dry and he's
Tried to drink from 9 to 5 then
From 5 to 9

Always drunk
And going Crazy you
Better believe it
Chesterfield where
The kegs never dry
It's always filled

Have beer with FEAR!
Have a beer or two then he'll
Show you his cheese tattoo
Drunk and going crazy, you

On a Tuesday in the rain, I never thought there'd come a day (I never thought
there'd come a day yea..)
If i put myself to the test, would i ever raise a fist?
Would i just shut my mouth, would i just block it out.

I've sworn a million times never to be left again with that feeling,
Of hopelessness, left standing
Just nervous in the alley,

Have you ever felt that
Something, you know that
Something that keeps you sane?
And you can't explain why --
But you know it's what's
Left inside you and I know that
It's that something you know
That something that keeps me sane --
And I can't explain why
When it's all I have
I have left to hold onto.

And when I say it's
Everything from my highest hopes
To my dumbest schemes you'll never know

I know I know I know
I know just who I am
and what's in my head is that I don't really give a damn
just do you think I am
who you think I am
I know there comes a time when you lose faith in what you believe inside
(what you have inside)
and did you know somehow it's just a spark that's a start
(that keeps us from the crowd)
The other day this girl came up to meand asked

Just talked to this girl
Who used to live here on my street.
After all these years you're here
And you remember me.
She said her old boyfriend
Packed up and headed back east
But she always knew someday
That he would go.

She just got a new job
But doubts that it will last.
So let's take a drink and never think
Yeah, here's to the past.
And she says it's so funny
How life runs out so fast

Sit down,
Remind me how this is the same old story of growing up and getting lost
Sit down,
Remind me how this is the same old story of growing up and getting lost

And just outside I can hear the sounds
of the early morning street becoming way too loud
and the hum of the engines in the cars on the street
yeah on the streets
And with this cigarette that I just lit
as I pass the 53rd St. Bridge

So you think of what it could've been
When time is al you've lost
Keeps burning through your head and
Now you fall asleep standing but lie
Awake in bed watch the clock drag on
And think about what you should've said

It's for the better
Your better half is gone.
It's OK - You didn't need her anyway.
And I don't want to hear you say
Nobody can take her place
And what more can I say-

Got on the 47,
Transferred to the 89
Left town eastbound past all the city signs
And y'know sometimes it's hard to leave,
Your past behind and as I pass the crummy bars
And beat up cars nothing's
Gonna change my mind this time

By now you think I'be found that
Things changed, Just don't look
That way to me.

By now you think I've found
That things change,
And look rearraged to me.

Danny says that he got caught up
In all the talk of how it used to be,
And he says I never used to mind
That same lame line it's just you and me
Danny says that he's so boring now
Since he figured out that bakc in the day
Really say ...How I remember this,
And don't give a shit about what you have
To say.

He's only 19 burnt out on the scene
And just getting by on its memories

Sometimes, I think
Something's wrong with
Me because I was
Never one to believe
In any one or anything
It's always been just me.
It's always been just,

And u know, they've
Always had,
always had, big
Plans for you
Just walk you
Through and cloud
Your views.

And I'll never say
That everything's OK.

And you don't
Want to say that you're
Giving up right now, so
Hold your ground don't

Al said goodbye to his mom and dad for the first time in his life
tonight he left the house and walked to the waiting car outside.
Yeah and somehow he thought they'd never understand
that nothing lasts
and he just knows that time is just spinning by
and life is passing him by so fast
And sometimes I think I'm the only one
that feels like going nowhere
Its like giving up
Sometimes

VOICE OVER (this is a fair request and i promise i will not
judge any person only as a teenager.
if you will constantly remind
yourself that some of my generation
judges people by their race, their belief, or the
coulor of their skin
and that this is no more right than saying all teenagers
are drunken dope addicts or glue sniffers)

Do you think it's strange