A town where everybody knows your name.

Around here everyone grows up the same.

The girls are easy and the boys are dumb.

They kick each other shitless just for fun

If I was able I would get away.

Hop a bus or maybe jump a train

Head on out into the setting sun

Try my luck and maybe be someone

But the road is not for me; and I wanna

Take my time until I see; So I'm gonna:

Are you gonna wish your life away?

Are you gonna wish upon a star?                                                                   

And maybe never find who you really are.

How you gonna mend your broken dreams?

How you gonna mend that broken heart?

When you can't even find the pieces that were torn apart.

People tell me I should shut my mouth:

All you ever do is bitch and shout

You're no better than the ones you hate.

Join or quit before it gets too late

Hey my friend you know I could but I don't wanna

I've got nothing I need to prove so I'm gonna

There was a time when every sky was blue but I shut it out for love of you

And all the crying that I've done since then is for when I think what might have been

When the book of me is done if you wanna

You can say I was the one who was gonna