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i wanna make you know i can do everything but i don't ever show you how i really am i wish i could say i have no regrets i wanted to much from you i don't wanna be this way i kick myself i wish i could say that i have no regrets today but i'm so nervous that i lose my cool everytime i pick up the phone and try to call you standing out in the freezing cold until i'm numb wondering why i'm always acting so dumb i don't wanna be this way i kick myself i wish i could say that i have no regrets today things just happened to turn out this way i can't say that i have no regrets today he was only 16 and he knew he wasn't like anyone else listening to his records in his room he knew something had to change somewhere or he would go insane but when some years slipped by and he still felt the same. people and money came and went but the only thing that stayed the same were the feelings he felt when those records played he drinks till he falls down and his name is lamar vannoy he's looking for something and he's gonna find it oi oi oi oi and his name is lamar vannoy. me and lamar in nyc on the avenue talking about nothing new with a bag of brew the new york wind will blow and he will wears his engineer boots motorcycle jacket black jeans nowhere to go nothing to do so much has gone wrong and so much is bad but sharing this music with lamar there is so much we have he drink's and think's about a girl who lies and his name is lamar vannoy he'll wake up and go to work with a swollen brain. i used to have home with a room and be a porch and a driveway with a big garage but i traded it in i kept some faith and laid my head down every night and it seems so far awy remember me now cuz things always change 5 long years has gone i've done some time sleeping where i fall i know i'll never be the same i learned somethings about the places i saw i learned something about myself i guess it came the hard way now i know what counts i've got one prayer it's in your confidence i know all the places i don't want to be everyone's gone there'e no one just me remember me now cuz things always change 5 long years has gone i've done some time sleeping where i fall i know i'll never be the same remember me next time i go away for the first time i wanna stay i can count one hand here today the only thing that matters to me anyway and it seems so far away remember me now cuz things always change 5 long years has gone i've done some time sleeping where i fall i know i'll never be the same to old to bother to young to care standing all alone lost in my mind somewhere so many unknown questions i've got to take another step on this sole adventure why is it i can't see what i need to be i wish i had some ideas about my detiny i don't know what it is i'm looking for i can't find it anywhere i never felt like this before i got no ideas what is i try to find i've got a strange feeling i'm lost in my own mind why is it i can't see what i need to be i wish i had some ideas about my detiny to old to bother to young to care (a bunch o' times) you may think we're weather martyr's but snow and ice makes us rock harder punkers should be pale and pasty the pizza here is fierce and tasty east coast! fuck you! we go out west and play some shows then we know it's time to go. pack the truck and head on back, new york's better and that's a fact. i know i'm not a bad guy when i try to do what's right everyone who comes to me don't see my plight. everything i've ever done all the plans i've had in sight always missed and gone wrong in a way until i gave up and said alright let me alone cuz no one wants to be hanging around with someone messin up like me i guess my way isnt good enough when i try i just keep on wrecking stuff it seems everybody knows but me how to go what to do and where to be everywhere i go they all talk the same they don't even have to try they make me feel so lame friends and jobs have come and gone no matter what i do it goes on and on i wonder if you sometimes feel this way and do you lay awake at the end of the day when i lose everytime i win cuz no one will ever be messin up stuff doing things wrong quite like me no one will ever be like me. born to lose i've lived my life in vain all my dreams have always caused me pain. all my life i've always been so blue born to lose and now i'm losing you. born to lose it seems so hard to bear how i always long to have you near you were all the happiness i knew born to lose and now i'm losing you. born to lose i can't believe your gone it's so hard to face that empty dawn all my life i've always been so blue born to lose and now i'm losing you there's no use to dream of happiness all i see is only loneliness all my life i've always been so blue born to lose and now im losing you. we were riding north to chicago on route 65 we'd played the first show on a tour of 45 limey shawn and bryan rode in the truck 16 miles away me shal pete and lamar thumbed down the ramp of exit 158 the smell of farm and diesel fuel it burned in the 3:00 sun 16 miles to the garage with a bottle of water and our thumbs. dead bottle caps buds and birds we passed on the way who's gonna pick up 4 punks in indiana on sunday here we go! "the diagnosis wasn't good" is what don the ford guy said. stuck in indiana for a week cuz the bus was dead. 24 hour white castle 25cent refills for a while we know what to do with no money riding down the jewel of the denial. loaded with our sleeping bags we hitched a ride to town we ran into some punky kids bought some beers they showed us around under a bridge by the river we got drunk and sang clash songs we were saved just in time by the sonic iquana here we go!. you're a good kid play the game to break your heart you've gotta get back to where you started pay attention now or it'll slip by it's your heart don't let it die leave it all behind whoooaaaa (cathy line) is it true when we get old our hearts die? i heard it in a movie once and i think i know why life it sucks so bad it makes you wanna die whoooaaa but you get by life goes by you're a good kid you've still got the power in you hangin' around you don't know what to do don't think too much just let it loose get up now's your chance we are here and we make you dance you are not alone this is our home life goes by |
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