I never was a straight-lace, straight A student

Teacher's pet or child prodigy

I wasn't gonna get rich throwin' a football

It take too long to get a law degree



So I sat down with momma and daddy

They tried to talk some sense into my thick head

But the best advice that I ever got

Was from my sister's rock star boyfriend



Just get you a guitar and learn how to play

Cut up some jeans, come up with a name

When you're living in a world that you don't understand

Find a few good buddies, start a band

Start a band, start a band



And all those girls that were too cool to talk to,

They'll be waiting in the line out back

Might get your picture in the hometown paper

Maybe buy your momma that Cadillac



Just get you a guitar and learn how to play

Cut up some jeans, come up with a name

When you're living in a world that you don't understand

Find a few good buddies, start a band



Start a band, scrape up some money, buy a van

Learn 'Free Bird' and 'Ramblin' Man'

Never buy another beer again



So get you a guitar and learn how to play

Grow out your hair, come up with a name

With a little bit of luck you'll be packing the stands

Find a few good buddies, start a band



No need to study, start a band

Call up some buddies man, and start a band

Well, I know, you don't know the reason

An' it's cold, a sign of the season

'Cause you're old an' battered an' beaten

And we'll grow, 'til we hit the ceiling, oh



Yeah, we know we better

Get away, send a letter

Bombs away, covered in my skin

I couldn't imagine anyone else

Come up with a weekend

I couldn't imagine, why you would save yourself?



Well, it's gone and it's not returning

And your clothes and pictures are burning

'Cause you're old an' battered an' beaten

And we'll grow, 'til we hit the ceiling, oh



Yeah, we know we better

Get away, send a letter

Bombs away, covered in my skin

I couldn't imagine anyone else

Come up with a weekend

I couldn't imagine, why you would save yourself?

Eyaa



Yeah, we know we better

Get away, send a letter

Bombs away, covered in my skin

I couldn't imagine anyone else

Come up with a weekend

I couldn't imagine anyone else

You're covered in my skin

I couldn't imagine anyone else

Come up with a weekend

I couldn't imagine

Why you would save yourself?

Out in the cold, like a bundle of coal,

Little packets of darkness, wanting to grow,

Well there's nobody home,

And there's a wreck in the yard,

And maybe their coming back,

If we wish really hard, if we wish real hard now,



Won't somebody please come up with something

Cause Jesus just don't seem to be

Impartially working,

And all of the rest are really down in the ratings,

But everyone, is going to keep on waiting



Waiting for peace,

At the end of our street,

Back behind our apartments,

In our passenger seats,

Just a moment of bliss,

Of it all of the ways,

But despair and oblivion,

Of our precarious ways,

It's ours to face now!



Won't somebody please come up with something

Cause Jesus just don't seem to be

Impartially working,

And all of the rest are really down in the ratings,

But everyone, is still right here waiting



Now I know, nothing lasts forever,

So we might as well wish for a God damn fix

Of this toxic change in weather



Won't somebody please come up with something

Cause Jesus just don't seem to be

Impartially working,

And all of the others can barely stay in the running,

But everyone, is still right here waiting



Won't somebody please come up with something

Won't somebody please come up with something

Won't somebody please come up with something

Won't somebody please come up with something