Starting up
Your chevrolet to packed crowds
Back in the heyday
Backfires, like the bravado
You did your best to downplay
Your mistakes are sitting center stage
Just like you made them
The American way
All of your mistakes
Are sitting center stage
Just like you made them
With only the seasons keeping time
Who do you wanna be there by your side?
Burning up beacon, casting light
Over the empty seats night after night
Solo, a dying star
Wants to dance over again
Perfected steps were so big back then
Ain't nobody singing along
No one remembers that song
Holding on to diminishing dawn
Laying down
All you do is clown around
In bed with your lady
Pair of die, roll 'em on a rent a night
Throw it all on layaway
Your mistakes are sitting center stage
Just like you made them
The American way
All of your mistakes are sitting center stage
Just like you made them
With only the seasons keeping time
Who do you wanna be there by your side?
Burning up beacon, casting light
Over the empty seats night after night
Solo, a dying star
Solo, a dying star wants to dance over again
Ain't nobody singing along
No one remembers that song
Barely holding on to diminishing dawn
Roller coaster, coming down
Wonderland is hitting the ground
Letter z, pocket size
You're winning but you don't realize
You arrive at the fight
Wanna piece of me?
Come get your slice of life
There she is, paradise
You could stay a while but it wouldn't suffice
Ya you know, she's real nice
By now you've been there too many times
You arrive at the fight
Wanna piece of me?
In spite of yourself
Feel the pressure
But why?
Wanna be something
Come get your slice of life
The more you want the more you miss
The more you wish that you had it
But when it all falls down around you
Will you see how it happened?