You remember when we used to ride our bikes to the stream
And we used to splash around, scare the fish, make them scream
And we used to smoke cigs while our parents used to dream
And I didn't use to feel like a fish, just a teen
You remember when we didn't have responsibility
We played Cards Against Humanity beneath the apple tree
When we could've been explorers of the world at our feet
When the pressure didn't always make me want to be asleep
Your stomach rumbles, loud as cars
Your childhood crumbles into a cloud of bars
Choices, questions... It's all so hard
Will you make it? Choose who you are
Fresh out of high school
The city's not delightful
And I don't feel like I'm cool
Enough to blend, I'm frightful
I feel like my brain won't work tonight
I feel a sharp pain, as I'm looking outside
The fiftieth building, and the fiftieth height
Times a hundred other people, I spite
I went to a party, wore my finest attire
But no one heard my jokes, so I made my own choir
Internal laughs and crying and a bit of desire
To indulge in something naughty, get a little bit higher
Smoking in the corner, all alone, I ponder
How I used to blow the smoke! Now I keep it in, I wonder
If they hate me for my collar, cause I'm smaller, and a scholar
Someone labels me a foreigner. I punch them! They holler
I don't wanna get drunk, all I'm missing is some love
Now I hate you all the same, now I hate you all the same
Now I hate you all the same, I won't take anymore blame
For these butterflies inside, screaming loudly "Let me out"
Oh, like them I scream and shout, wasn't s'pposed to be this hard
Guess I might as well just cry... Guess I might as well just die
Are you serious? Are you delirious?
This is the man you chose to be?
Ugh. Screw it. Game over. Try again
Try better, go-getter
Do it again
Don't blow it again
Hide your insecurities
You can shove them down with ease
Find yourself a pretty girl (or a few)
And tell her she's your world
So you can live in peace
And all your problems will decease
You remember when we used to ride our bikes to the stream
And we used to splash around, scare the fish, make them scream
And we used to smoke cigs while our parents used to dream
And I didn't use to feel like a fish, just a teen
You remember when we didn't have responsibility
We played Cards Against Humanity beneath the apple tree
When we could've been explorers of the world at our feet
When the pressure didn't always make me want to be asleep