We spent too long pretending that our band was gonna make it
We never stood a chance but we just stood our ground and faked it
Convinced the world would notice if we made a lot of noise
There's a lot to be said for talentless, over-confident, skinny white boys
Then reality took a bite out of our boyhood dream
A wound we can't recover from, not completely, so it seems
A final ditch attempt to make out fantasy come true
But by then I knew it wouldn't, and I think you knew it too
But now we know our place, we know our station
And though we've never had a proper conversation
You're my friend, and you're my brother
I wouldn't trade the life we've led for any other
We got ourselves a manager, and we played a lot of shows
We even played in London, coz that's where everybody goes
To be discovered as the next big thing but that's not fucking likely
It really is all who you know, not how good at guitar you might be
But we were never that good but that's not the point at least we tried
And the best thing to come out of this is we're best friends 'til we die
So digging in with thickened skin, I love the place I've got to
I love my friends like family, I'd be pretty stupid not to
And now we know our place, we know our station
And though we've never had a proper conversation
You're my friend, and you're my brother
I wouldn't trade the life we've led for any other
Now here we are a decade on and living miles apart
And boyhood dreams are merely distant memories in the past
It seems that life got in the way of our imaginations
Maybe now we'll get around to having that conversation
Even if we don't it doesn't matter coz we're still here
We lived to tell the tale, so let's tell it to the beer
We may not be the men we thought we'd be when we were twenty
But we lived life without compromise and by god we lived it plenty
And now we know our place, we know our station
And though we've never had a proper occupation
You're my friend, and you're my brother
I wouldn't trade the life we've led for any other