And we all just want to stay young forever Hold on to that feeling Of how we watched the sun go down in the summertime And thought the world was ours But youth is just a house on fire You either get out or die trying There's no fire department coming down the road You gotta do it on your own And there ain't no map, no X-marks-the-spot No treasure waiting at the end of the rainbow You ain't Peter Pan, this ain't Neverland Move on We ain't that young anymore We ain't that young anymore And we all just want to stay cool forever Hip to the latest trends Stay out with your friends until the last call And you're shutting down the bar You used to live your life like a college kid Burning your candle at both ends You were wild and free you were bold and brash You were the king of the world and the bar But they stopped carding you a long time ago You're not the kid with a beer in his hand You're a grown ass man, it's time to take a stand Move on We ain't that young anymore We ain't that young anymore And we all just want to stay gold forever Be the heroes in the songs we love Be a Ziggy Stardust or a Magic Rat We can beat them, just for one day But the songs were about somebody else before And they'll be somebody else's again Because people age and your life's gonna change But characters are always staying the same You can't live in a book you don't live in a song You can't be timeless if you never grow So just let "Born to Run" fade into "She's the One" Move on We ain't that young anymore We ain't that young anymore

We moved in here when I was only 10 9/11 hadn't happened yet The world felt brighter back then We had a new dog to go along with our new life And it was summertime You could taste it in the air… A few years later you came down the stairs And said "We're moving away" I was only in eighth grade And I don't know why But I felt it deep down in my bones This town wasn't done with me yet So I was selfish and self-centered I screamed and I cried Until you found a job a little closer to home And on the day you said "We're staying put" I was singing a song about "believing in Futures" I know we're moving away We'll never call this house home again But that's what it is There'll be no false starts this time And I'm not trying to change your mind For my own sake 'Cause there's a whole wide world waiting And you've gotta go where it's calling you Even if that means leaving behind the place I spent my youth So here's a song for the road And maybe one for the home we shared here For 15 years Do you remember that time you went away for the weekend And left me alone? You only gave me two rules: Don't have a party And don't get the sports car out of the garage Well you were gone half an hour or so And I was rolling down those windows on a back road And it only took 'til that night To get my friends here Circled round the living room and sharing a beer I wasn't trying to be bad or rebellious I was just living my life And now I look back on those youthful days And wonder where they've gone Guess that's the nature of a house when you call it a home It takes your memories and keeps 'em for itself And we're all out here on the highway of life Trying to make a few more while we got the health I know we're moving away We'll never call this house home again But that's what it is There'll be no false starts this time And I'm not trying to change your mind For my own sake 'Cause there's a whole wide world waiting And you've gotta go where it's calling you Even if that means leaving behind the place I spent my youth So here's a song for the road And maybe one for the home we shared here For 15 years If we had moved away in 2004 I'd be a different man today Would I have learned to play? Would I have found my voice? Would I have the music in me? Would I have met that girl? Would we have fallen in love? And gotten married on a summer's day? I know the answer's "No" That’s why it's hard to go, to go away from here I know we're moving away We'll never call this house home again But that's what it is There'll be no false starts this time And I'm not trying to change your mind For my own sake 'Cause there's a whole wide world waiting And you've gotta go where it's calling you Even if that means leaving behind the place I spent my youth So here's a song for the road And maybe one for the home we shared here For 15 years

I'd sit alone in my room on a Saturday night The TV on and the music playing Trying to drown out the loneliness with laughter and songs Back before you came along Make a dinner on the stove just for myself And the mixtapes I was making, they weren't for anybody else Oh, make no mistake girl I was perfectly lonely Back before you came along Back before there was you I was on my own I related to the words of "Like a Rolling Stone" I was a party of one, I didn't know where I belonged Back before there was you I was weak, but now I'm strong Now it's Valentine's Day and I'm driving alone Ain't nothing but love songs on the radio Always a girl on my mind but she was never mine Back before you came along Now it's Christmastime it's family and wine And the room starts to spin and snow is falling down outside It's a damn good party but I've got no one to hold Back before you came along Back before there was you I was on my own I related to the words of "Like a Rolling Stone" I was a party of one, I didn't know where I belonged Back before there was you I was weak, but now I'm strong Now it's New Year's Eve 2009 Last few minutes of the decade Oh how those 10 years did fly So we make toasts and resolutions But at midnight I'll be alone At least that's what I thought And that was when you came along

I was born and raised here This tiny rust belt town In the northwest corner of the state Where our only claim to fame Is staying put after we graduate And it ain’t that we’re dumb We don’t lack the ambition or drive To get out of this town Make something out of ourselves We just know what we got here With the sun and the stars Is too good to leave behind in our college years That’s why we always come back Let’s find a place where the sun sets on the tree line Or a beach where we can make the most of summertime Let’s watch the stars burn out with the night If we’re never gonna get out of this town Let’s put some money down And stay here I don’t mind the dirt on my shoes Or the sand in my hair Or the dust in these vinyl grooves If we could stay out of the city lights For our whole lives Girl, I think that might be alright Our best friends moved away four years ago They said they had to see the world or something I don’t know But we’ll be saying “I told you so” When they’re rolling back down Front Street ‘Cause they couldn’t find a way to beat what we got here When nobody else is near Yeah, we’d be crazy to leave Let’s find a place where the sun sets on the tree line Or a beach where we can make the most of summertime Let’s watch the stars burn out with the night If we’re never gonna get out of this town Let’s put some money down And stay here ‘Cause settling down don’t mean settling for less And putting down roots don’t mean putting your dreams to rest Gotta be honest girl: I couldn’t care less About finding the best job, or making us a pile of cash As long as I can stay here In the best place in the world With the most beautiful girl Where running away just means jumping on a boat Maybe grab the guitar, we can write a hit song ‘Bout finding somewhere where the sun sets on the tree line Or a beach where we can make the most of sweet summertime Let’s watch the stars burn out with the night If we’re never gonna get out of this town Let’s put some money down And stay here

She’s the girl you never get over She’s the girl who’s in every song She’s the girl you know who will still pop into your head 20 years down when you’re driving alone She’s the girl you never saw coming The only one you couldn’t predict She rolled through town like some hurricane wind And swept your old life away life it wasn’t even yours to begin with You think you found a way To make a getaway But in the end you’re just spinning your wheels ‘Cause she won’t last for ever She is now or never She won’t be there when you wake And she’s not the girl you end up with She’s just the one you’re happy to run with For a little while ‘til she leaves you in the dust And I know you’re a doubter And you’ll try to change her But boys can never hold onto the wind But you can try to pretend She’s the girl of every lost summer She’s the girl who ruled all your nights Trespassing on some beach you didn’t even know Skinny dipping underneath the stars She’s the girl you thought you were in love with Back before you knew what love was She was your teenage dream wrapped up in a red sundress And she’s never coming back, boy, and you know it She made a getaway Left earlier today And now you’re sitting here wondering what went wrong ‘Cause she won’t last for ever She is now or never She won’t be there when you wake And she’s not the girl you end up with She’s just the one you’re happy to run with For a little while ‘til she leaves you in the dust And I know you’re a doubter And you’ll try to change her But boys can never hold onto the wind But you can try to pretend Some nights she seems so close Like lightning crashing off the road But I know that she’s as far As shooting stars out in the dark And if she never thinks of me That’s fine I don’t need her to I wish I didn’t think of her But I can’t help it where my mind goes When it’s dark and I’m the only one around ‘Cause she won’t last for ever She is now or never She won’t be there when you wake And she’s not the girl you end up with She’s just the one you’re happy to run with For a little while ‘til she leaves you in the dust And I know you’re a doubter And you’ll try to change her But boys can never hold onto the wind But you can try to pretend

Take a look around man, and take it all in Take a look around, try to remember it Take a look around , 'cause someday soon You're gonna run out of all those afternoons And you can't turn back the clock to that day in spring When you met your best friend by the playground swing Or saw that girl across the hallway and time just stopped That's the only time you're ever gonna beat the clock I remember riding in the front seat of my mama's car Cruising through the half-lit woods, with the radio on I remember everything, from the morning we all met to the Friday we all left And I consider myself blessed, I grew up in the woodlands Sitting here tonight I cast my memory back To sledding hill injuries and capture the flag To card games and football and memories that last And somewhere along the way, I guess we also went to class I remember riding in the front seat of my mama's car Cruising through the half-lit woods, with the radio on I remember everything, from the morning we all met to the Friday we all left And I consider myself blessed, I grew up in the woodlands And maybe 20 years down, we'll all meet up again It won't be awkward at all, no we'll still feel like old friends And we'll go out to a bar and close that place down Just talking 'bout the past until they throw us out And then we'll rage on the backstreets 'til 4 a.m. Just looking for trouble the way we always did When we were young and we were just Having a blast being kids Who grew up in the woodlands There's so many days I wish I could get back There's so many friends I wish I could see again There's a guy we knew back then who used to walk these halls Now there ain't nothing left of him but pictures on the walls So take a look around, man, take it from me Take a look around, son, I know what I mean Take a look around 'cause I'm the man you're gonna be When that last bell rings at a quarter to three

The day I finished college I just got into my car Set the GPS to some new city And drove It was the start of a new summer Though it wasn't even May And I was heading off toward some new life That I had never seen I was moving away From the only world That I had ever known I was moving off to Illinois To find some new dream Moving off to share a life with you Jimmy Eat World on the CD player All my bags in the backseat Stacked so damn high I couldn't see Anything behind me See, I couldn't use the trunk 'cause it was flooded From the time that I got hit Left the backside of the car all dented And a leak to let rain get in So all the mirror is showing me Is suitcases and reams Of papers from the classes I just finished Got my records in a box on the floor And my guitar stacked on top Like some troubadour just heading out to Nashville And singin' a song... About how I'm driving alone Down this Michigan lane road And I can't see behind me at all The only unobstructed view Is through this cracked windshield I guess I'm thankful 'cause I can't keep looking back At my life in the rearview mirror Thought about that summer in Traverse City The one that gave us our first kiss It was long hot days and longer nights Staying out 'til 3 a.m. I had more hours to kill than there were dollars in my pocket So I spent 'em on the beach with you Or singing songs at a theater down by the docks But the water levels rose I bet that beach ain't even there anymore And they turned that old theater into an organic foods store You and I are still something But we're something different And I'm heading off to find what "different" is So I'm driving alone Down a two lane road And I can't look behind me at all The only unobstructed view Is through this cracked windshield I guess I'm thankful 'cause I can't keep looking back At my life in the rearview mirror We ain't kids anymore It's time to shed the weight of the things that we carry So we can carry more I'm not suggesting we forget the past, no, I'm glad it's there But I'm also glad that we can't turn around What's in that rearview mirror is gonna have to stay there And maybe one day girl we'll look back on today As the past to which we long to return But until that day… There's no more driving alone Down a two lane road I got you sitting there beside me the whole way And when we glance to the backseat No, I don't know what'll be there Maybe a pair of kids or the signs of some other dream Either way it's good to have you on my team As we're leaving time behind, all the laughter and the tears I gotta say we sure did find a way to leave A damn good life in the rearview mirror

She wakes up every morning To the sound of "Annie Waits" on the stereo And gets ready for her day Like a ballet dancer in a show She could make a V-neck tee Look like it belonged on the red carpet Like when she walks down the hall at school And every head turns her way Well she's the queen of this town And you best believe That I'm wanting her like the rest Watching as she drive in the parking lot In her black Mercedes Benz Well I only got three months 'Til high school's gone And I'm outta time So I better take my chance before first hour Say "Hey" Or spend my life as a wallflower She's read every Jane Austen book on her shelf A dozen times now And she's smarter than every boy Who's ever held her hand And she's in love with this town The way a hopeless romantic loves poetry She dreams of falling in love And settling down here someday Well, she's the queen of this town And I must admit that she's a little bit out of my league But I'm bold and I'm dumb So I'll give it a run And take a chance to try to make her see That I'm everything she wants At the end of the dance when the lights go low So I'm gonna take my chance on that last song Take her hand Or spend my life as a wallflower I grew up to the sounds of The Wallflowers Playing on the radio "6th Avenue Heartache," "Three Marlenas," "One Headlight" on down They made loneliness sound like a romantic drug Worth its weight in gold But now I'm trading it in To be the guy who gets the girl 'Cause she's the queen of this town And you best believe That tonight I'm gonna make her mine Away from the crowds and away from the noise And away from any sense of time She said "We've only got this beach And the moon up above, and the stars in the sky" So I'm gonna take my chance at this late hour And kiss her Won't spend my life as a wallflower

She's making movies in her head That he'll man up and say the words she's always read in his eyes But until then they'll keep pretending they’re just friends Until times runs out and it's on to the next, onto the next chapter He's making movies in his mind About the last time that he saw her face light up the night She was a slow dance in the summer rain But got away And he's a sad song of regret Still burning up the radio 'Til the static sets in He loves her more than he could ever tell anyone But she's eight years gone And he's still holding on, he's holding on But he's gonna see her tonight He doesn't know it yet But at half past eleven He'll look up across the bar and catch her eye And then he'll take the seat beside her and buy her a couple rounds And they'll talk until closing time Or are they just making movies of their lives? She hasn't been here since her college days When she stopped waiting around She met a guy who played hockey in a semi-pro league And left, thinking he was her American dream But he wasn’t He hasn't seen her since they were both 21 Sharing beers on the hood of his Chevy Cavalier on a Friday night She leaned in close, he pulled away, she swore under her breath He tried to find the words to say... But they just slipped away, they slipped away But she's gonna see him tonight She's got her makeup on To cover up the bruises that her deadbeat of a husband left behind She starts to feel like she's never gonna find a way out That this will always be her life And then she sees him and she's making movies in his eyes She doesn't need a savior Or another man to take her home and make it right But for tonight it might be nice to look into the eyes Of a friend she used to know And let go of the secrets she's been keeping deep inside So she's gonna see him tonight And she'll take a deep breath with the tears in her eyes And let him in on a life that's gone so awry And then he'll take her in his arms in the low, low light And for a moment everything will be all right And she'll just pray this ain't The movie version of her life

I think it's time we face the facts I think it's time we packed our bags I think it's time we start our lives Somewhere else I think it's time we settled down I think it's time we left this town Just take the street signs west and then head north Dodge a speed trap and you're gone But one more time before we go away Let's take the time and let's spend the day Taking one more pass through all these streets Before they don't belong to us no more So, bon voyage Goodnight, goodbye Bon voyage I'll miss you 'til you're back here I'll miss you 'til you're back here with me I always knew you'd get your dream And you'd follow a road that leads a long, long way from here I always knew that once we moved away We'd never live in the same town again 'Cause you're the big city lights Or the wheels of a tour bus driving Yeah, you're a rolling stone And I'm the type to put down roots and stay Bon voyage Goodnight, goodbye Bon voyage I'll miss you 'til you're back here I'll miss you 'til you're back here with me And sometime in the evening when you're sitting on your porch Having a beer and just reflecting as the sun arcs toward the shore I hope you think of me and all the times we had way back before Singing songs until our voices couldn't sing songs anymore And if you're lonely and you're homesick and you need to reminisce About our college days, the classes and rehearsals that we missed 'Cause we were sitting in the café throwing burgers at the wall You can ring me up and trust that I won't mind the long distance call And if you're hearing this through headphones as you're sitting on a flight Take a look out of the window through the clouds of London skies And try to hear the bells of Big Ben floating out along the wind And remember not to forget the brothers we have been And maybe in a few years, you'll find a way back But if you never come home, I think we'll all understand And I'll toast to you and think back at it all once again So hard to say goodbye to one of my best friends