Don't get it twisted
Lean in, listen
I'm not the victim
This is the vision
To tear down system
And rewrite the anthem
This is a symptom
A sign of resistance
Its blood in a blister
I know that I'm gonna die when I'm older
But what is my life if I don't have a mission
I don't wanna die
Stay in line and look alive
I don't wanna live
If I'm running for my life
I don't wanna die
I don't, I don't wanna die
This is 25
Read the sign do not revive
21 going on 25
I will not live if I'm just surviving
Quarter of my life is dead
And so is the option of revising
Breathing in, living and breathing out
The beat will go on when I'm not around now
The time that I spend is a moment
So hold it and focus on how we should opt to devote it
Alone in a grave for a century
Observing the value of misery
And what did my life mean publicly
Now all my trophies are on display
I wear a disguise so you think I'm sane
Tie a short fuse and I contemplate
Is it life or death that I hate?
I don't wanna die
Stay in line and look alive
I don't wanna live
If I'm running for my life
I don't wanna die
I don't, I don't wanna die
This is 25
Read the sign do not revive
Strong silent type as most dead mean are
Wanna start a riot and a fire in my dead heart
I talk to myself to myself all day
I don't really wanna hear what I have to say though
When I was a kid I thought I might go far
Now I just feel lucky that I'm still at large
If I ever make it send them my regards
Cause I'm standing in the intersection waiting for the cars like
I'm super sensitive
I need a sedative
Time is venomous
Fighting is primitive, oh
Inverted negative
Not what you said it is
Am I a part of it
Carved in a monument
I'm super sensitive
I need a sedative
Time is venomous
Fighting is primitive, oh
Inverted negative
Not what you said it is
Am I a part of it
("You can have your city life,
I'd be content to spend the rest of my life
Just lying here on my back drinking
Black coffee 50 miles from anything."
"You guys were singing a song about that a night
Or two ago at the bunkhouse, what was it?"
"Now hand me that guitar, cmon boys let's sing it.")
I don't wanna die
Stay in line and look alive
I don't wanna live
If I'm running for my life
I don't wanna die
I don't, I don't wanna die
This is 25
Read the sign do not revive
I don't wanna die
I don't, I don't wanna