We’d wait on the curb for that familiar sound of your car Like we were waiting on a star Weekend trips down from your mom’s town you'd pull up in that beat up whip talking shit and say get in quick Grin already gone We’d pile in Windows cracked Headed where the lights were always on your pops house smelled like booze and cigarettes Spilling beer on the hallway rug remember some guy sleeping on the sofa.... black light postas.... and graffiti on the walls His old man was always shouting at us for some reason from the kitchen but we'd never listen We were kings of the hot boxed laundry room Taking shots Trying on new names House parties blur like a slideshow Red solo cups stacked up in the sink feeling up girls in the bathroom as we pour another drink slowly getting too fucked up to think we be out on the front porch Talking big Like we knew our fate Promising we’d all stay brothers Like the world would never change its shape Everybody said we’d burn out We just thought we’d burn on and on Everybody said we’d burn out We just thought we’d burn on and on Everybody said we’d burn out We just thought we’d burn on and on Acid on the tongue in the bedroom Ceiling breathing slow and wide tracing maps to nowhere On the back of your father's tv guide pacing Talking in circles Seeing colors around every word I remember you lying face down on the carpet whispering “Man This life’s so absurd” Then someone through a bag of fishscale on the mirror glass Lines vanished while we tried to make it last We swore it was only for weekends We swore we were doing fine Snow angels on a busted table Clock spinning right past 4 creeping quietly past the girls who've past out right on the floor your dad be outside singing to the radio even though it was Off-key looking back now what a harmony Summer ended in a shoulder shrug Schedules pulled us apart you guys enlisted , joined infantry ..... I packed up traveled south instantly Everybody said we’d burn out We just thought we’d burn on and on Everybody said we’d burn out We just thought we’d burn on and on Everybody said we’d burn out We just thought we’d burn on and on Years piled up like empties Under porches we don’t own New towns New tired faces New nights hanging out solo Sometimes when I’m on the edge of sleep the sound of us laughing runs through my head And I’m back on that front porch With all the jokes that were ever said One day we’ll meet again In a dive bar off some small road We’ll talk about the broken noses the girls whose names we forgot The way we thought we were fearless How close we came to scoring How close we were not We’ll sit there Older and awkward Picking truth from the myths we spun And I’ll say “Yeah We had each other’s backs” And they’ll say "YEAH, That was the one" Everybody said we’d burn out We just thought we’d burn on and on Everybody said we’d burn out We just thought we’d burn on and on Everybody said we’d burn out We just thought we’d burn on and on
