[Verse 1] Long drive in a hand-me-down car I’ve been seventeen for way too long Cracked windshield and a dead-end star FM stations all replay the same old song Fangs flash in the rearview glass I’m a rumor in this quiet town Every Sunday they all walk past While I’m waking up when the sun goes down [Pre-Chorus] I dress like I’ve got somewhere to be But I’m just tracing all these side streets endlessly Everybody’s growing up around me While the years keep passing through me [Chorus] ’Cause I’m a teenage vampire Stuck at seventeen forever Yeah, a teenage vampire Trying to make myself feel better If I’m a teenage vampire Why can’t I live like they do? I’m just a teenage vampire Trying to find a way to be normal too [Verse 2] I wanna wake up late on Monday Complain about a test I never studied for Buy cheap coffee on the way to school And slam my locker like I’ve done before I wanna sit beneath the football lights Hear everybody screaming from the stands Get detention for being out too late Have somebody tell me I don’t understand [Pre-Chorus] I joke that I’m bad with mornings, it’s true But I’m tired of watching life happen without me too Everybody’s got somewhere they’re going I’m standing still while the whole world keeps growing [Chorus] ’Cause I’m a teenage vampire Stuck at seventeen forever Yeah, a teenage vampire Trying to make myself feel better If I’m a teenage vampire Why can’t I live like they do? I’m just a teenage vampire Trying to find a way to be normal too [Bridge] I’ve seen decades pass like train cars in the dark New malls, old churches, same fluorescent parks Graduation caps, then moving trucks Everybody leaves, everybody grows up I remember faces I can’t even name Photographs fade but I stay the same And maybe immortality sounds cool Until you’re the only one who never gets to move [Breakdown] I wanna miss the bus and run down the street Sneak back home with grass stains on my jeans Get yelled at for staying out past ten Then wake up and do it all again I wanna have a future I can actually see Pick a career, get a stupid degree Move somewhere nobody knows my name And figure out who I’m supposed to become [Chorus – Soft] ’Cause I’m a teenage vampire Stuck at seventeen forever Yeah, a teenage vampire And I’m tired of saying I’m okay If I’m a teenage vampire Why does growing up feel new? I’m just a teenage vampire Trying to live like everybody else gets to [Final Chorus – Big] I’m just a teenage vampire I don’t wanna live forever Yeah, a teenage vampire I just wanna change with the weather If I’m a teenage vampire Let me see what twenty feels like too I’m just a teenage vampire Trying to find a life that feels true I wanna watch the years go by I wanna see my reflection change I wanna wake up in the daylight Without having to hide away I’m just a teenage vampire And immortality’s overrated I don’t wanna stay seventeen I just wanna grow up like everybody else
