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I sat along the rocks and I watched the cold Maine water rush away
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The sun and my guitar and I knew what you were doing yesterday
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You broke those promises, but I'll get over it
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Cause as long as I'm breathing fresh air I don't really give a shit
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But I'll get mad for the next ten years
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But realize sometimes things are great
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I didn't have directions and I hadn't eaten anything all day
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We sucked a fat one and wasted a hundred dollars just to play
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I ate a bag of peanuts before the windy road
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And I couldn't drink a thing all night because of the vomit in my throat
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But you gave me your sweatshirt and your number
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Sometimes things are great
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You don't own me!
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You don't own me!
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I worked my ass off my entire life to accomplish my dream
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It started happening and everything got bastardized by greed
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I said "pull this shit over and let me out
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I swear to fucking God I'm fucking giving up right now"
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And now I've got a brand new start and I realized sometimes things are great
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Scream it in apartment halls
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Screaming shit in shopping malls
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Take a ball point pen and paint the insides of your eyelids with the constant reminder
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You don't own me!
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You don't own me!
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Then I was underground without food, sunlight, or encouragement
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Depression set in, I was a product of my environment
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And then the other day, you said, “Jeff, get in your car
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Yeah, pick Glenn Tillbrook up at the hotel and take him to the bar"
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He wore a t-shirt just like me and wasn't on his phone
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And for fifteen fucking minutes I had a conversation with my hero
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I'll be mad for the next ten years
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And after that we'll go drink beers until the bar runs out of beers
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Prepare for the next twenty-three years
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And if I wasn't a fat kid in high school
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I would have never listened to punk rock
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And if I knew how to throw a football
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I would have never played any music
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And if I never got my heart broken
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I would sing blah, blah, fucking nothing
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And if you didn't fuck my ex-girlfriend
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I would still owe you three thousand dollars
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And if I never lived in that van
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I wouldn't have met Chris or Steve, Alex, James, or Middagh
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And if I never worked in a basement
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I would have never quit my job
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And if I had a big emo band or dropped out of college
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I would have never met you, man
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