so you made the news today. to throw it all away
and now you've got your bland new place in line
you know i'd love to stay but the message can't relay
got to thinking sometimes the wrong choices turn out to be right

three lives to sign away. so when do we get paid?
plug it in and stamp my hand for life
you know it sounds all wrong. they killed my favorite song
teenage crushes mold their mind cause if we don't who will?

one day you'll be walking down the street in your home town
and all the ones who love you now were the ones who put you down
turn the clock back to the time when our luck ran so low
after that night i want you to know, i'm gonna take on the world

and if that's not enough. we never called your bluff
we saw it coming from a mile away
a mile seems so far while driving in my car
i start to realize that i can't see past my own two hands

one day you'll be walking down the street in your home town
and all the one's who love you now were the one's who put you down
turn the clock back to the time when our luck ran so low
after that night i want you to know, i'm gonna take on the world

the tide is coming in. the water's running thin
i can't remember what state we were in
to set the record straight. it came two years too late
have the guts to take your consolation prize and die