Get Up Kids

what became of everyone i used to know?
where did our respectable convictions go?
your words dont' match teh story that your actions show, but what do i know?
i'm sure you cn't help but remembering
I thought that you'd be one not to forget,
but remembering's not helping you yet.
say goodnight means goodbye.
i know you thought my life would stop with you away
maybe I can see you on the holidays,
but you're worlds away
I've never forgotten all our yesterdays but i'm lucky if we're speaking on the holidays
the evidence presents itself accusingly,
your absence speaking everything you think of me
now that I am faced with opportunity
you're not remembering
I'm not asking you anyway
Even if you ever could cave in
I wouldn't know where to begin

you really think you're bigger than this
to the tune of ten thousand lisps
who would have thought we'd represent
when i can't take a compliment?
overexposure is the key and any focus on me is appreciated
as it should be
no wonder now
i finally found the right formula for...
you taught me how
i play the fool
every mistake that i make
i couldn't have made without you
what's said is done and plain to see
you take it all too seriously
here's all you get from me
what better way to make an honest mistake
than a televised hand of fate
when the world's closing in on you
a decision would be overdue
now nothing left is out of hand
a stronger jaded man stands
if the world is ending then we toast to it
i'm stronger now but not without the right formula for...
i'm down for whatever
what's there left to wait for?

it's words you forget to anniversary songs
the bottles bite back
your tolerance wrong
your good intentions count for little anymore
if you're sorry why wage war?
i'm not fully convinced that there's something wrong with this
could anotehr point of view, baised and untrue, tear me away from you?
will you be my valentine if i'm a world away?
apologies are breaking me
the constants aren't so constant anymore
for two days i wait for calls to come through
tonight for me translates to yesterday to you
you bend and you wave when you're barely away
i wish i could say tonight that when you bend
and wave goodbye you'd take me with you

you're got some nerve
i never knew what with the world we gave
away in front of you
i see it all much clearer now
you're just a phase
i've gotten over anyhow
it's over
i'm not giving in again
we're loyal like brothers, just us versus all the others
i trusted misleading promises worth repeating
how could you do this to me?
red letter day that i learn i'm sure you get what you deserve
i see it all much clearer since i'm far past the point
of this if it's a lie i don't want to be the one who signed
i'm not the one who falls down
it's over now
if you want to try... try and forget it
it's over
i'm gone

long way from home,
lost by an echo, i'd never of known
i've got pictures to prove i was there,
but you don't care
here's me overseas, across a pond by the Dover peaks
i've smuggled myself into new nationalities, you think yo'd be proud of me
there's room to believe, out of mind, out of sight, out of reach
start over is no way to begin

ten minutes to downtown is ten minutes too far
when my friends all say i'm crazy,
maybe i'm being selfish
maybe i'm just scared
don't be gone when i get home... i need you there
if i had to explain it i wouldn't know were to start
it's like you're falling in love, while i just fall apart
ten minutes to downtown is ten minutes too far
when my hartis saying you're crazy maybe things are getting better... maybe
things aren't so bad
don't be gone when i get home... you're all i have
if i had to explain it,
i wouldn't know where to start
its like you're falling in love while i just fall apart
pockets empty, how can you tell me
that everything will work out...
a pointless fight when you're always right
and everything will work out
sometimes, i miss you more whenever i'm at home
i've been home all summer... now i'm leaving you alone
pockets empty, how can you tell me that everything will work out...
a pointless fight when you're always right and
everything will work out

i watched it all come crashing down on teh verge of a world profound
standing on unstable ground adding insult to irony
i think it's really gonna happen this time,
all out calls are on the company dime
reluctance ties up the line with irresponsibility
no matter save for a friend no argumentt can amend
irreplaceable but in the end,
one star player doesn't save the team
now you're open to attack,
our burden rest on your back
replace, re-track responsibility
i'm still waiting for you to get over this
anonymos until the ending,
spent a long long time pretending
and a longer day spent accepting what the world ahead would store
you only learn by not believeing that the industry is unforgiving
everything that you've been giving isn't what if was before
i'm still waitng for you to get over this

you'll be accepting my apology for taking things too seriously
sometimes i'm old enough to to keep routines,
sometimes i'm child enough to scream for
everything i broke in two
you're barely missing me, i'm missing you and everything you do
i really do
my once photographic memory for recollection's sake is failing me
i can't remember tor the life of me
sometimes i can think to recite words that i read and rewrite
my pens paint people that i've proven wrong,
but we move on
get a job where i can tell all of my accounts of someone else
i'm quick enough to judge that they were wrong and that we knew it all along
sing a long long-winded song i would be content to hum along
if i state that my fingers know where to show what everyone should have known,
i'll let it go
hopefully you'll forget that words that i put in print
my luck, you'll change and have strength enough to walk away

come tomorrow i'll be on my way back home
in the morning call from a roadside telephone
one night doesn't mean the reast of my life
if i go it's not impossible but possible is probably wrong
so, let go because i'm afraid to try
i'll keep myhands by my side
i won't come back
i hope someday you'll understand i want to try
and make it right but dont' know if i can
last night everything was right and the reain was gone
one summer night's the only time we've known
so, shut your eyes and when you wake i'll be gone

every attempt to... is filled with holes
it reads like a plygraph i'm told
i'[m not bitter anyway
let it go
i never sleep still lest i forget
tied down by handicaps instead
i'm not bitter anyway, but i didn't want it to turn out this way
sing a long goodnight, forgeit any fight
refuse to rest assured
it comes with no reply
hold on too tight
i hang on every word
if it wall ended tonight, you know that i wouldn't mind
it'd be back to the good old times before it won

summer swallowed us whole;
we waited for you to come around
every word you wrote down,
we read it over to know... would tehy believe is us now?
ther's no shame like no sound from souces hits colse to home
everything that we've found says make your own destiny
but youi're unaware taht you shuld be scared
maybe you'll learn from mistake that we make
we're not waiting forever
we know you'll never be there
we're not waiting forever, but if you get out we'll see you there
you're not awake as i'm aware
maybe we had all you figured absolutely wrong
there's been a misunderstanding we've had all along
you can read about it when we're gone

can you sleep as the sound hits your ears one at a time?
an unspokenbalance here,
unabridged for so many years
that i sould stare atreceivers to receive her isn't fair
don't worry i'll catch you
don't ever worry
your arms in mine, anytime
i wouldn't trade anything
you're still my everything
to my surprise, before my eyes, you arrive
i'm still breaking old hapits when you pulled the wool over me
i can see everything, remembering "jinx removing"
no need for reminding... you're still all that matters to me