Here we go again tonight, just me and you and the stars up in the sky. Everybody wants to know my life, I spill my secrets on this mic. I've done some things that were not good, but who has always done the things they should? I've popped the pills, I've drank the booze, I lost the girl, the one whose name was you. The sun is bright, it shines in the sky, it's hard to see the light when your eyes cry. I've got a voice I'll sing it loud, you will not shut me down or put me out. The politicians think they know what's best for me and you, it's all a show. I'm a working man just like my dad, I believe in the family that I have.

You say that I have yet to change You're the one who acts the same I don't know what i said to you To make you become so damn cruel I know i cheated once before Don't act like you were not a whore I know the games you try to play After three damn years i've learned your ways I've got my friends, i've got my drugs I think i'll be fine without love I've been here once or twice before It's the same old house just another door Well I left home and then broke down In this god forsaken town I lost my love as well my will I was born to die and not raised to kill But I'll be alright And I'll be alright...

It's 6am and I've already found your letters I thought that we had said that we would make things better It's 10pm and I now just got your phone call I'm trying to explain but you will not let me at all 3 weeks later and I still haven't gotten a post card I think you're making things out to be too harsh A year later and my feelings haven't changed I still want you back but I want you to feel the same

Bad kids, all my friends are bad kids Product of no dad kids Kids like you and me Bad kids, ain't no college grad kids Livin out on the skids Kids like you and me In Class We are a minority Got no Respect for authority And won't Play well with others And steal From all your mothers They'll try To give us pills Oh wait Give us all the pills Don't cry Mom I gotta go to court Dad won't Pay his child support Well you gotta understand We only do these things because all we are, are Bad kids, all my friends are bad kids Product of no dad kids Kids like you and me Bad kids, ain't no college grad kids Livin out on the skids Kids like you and me At home He throws a hissy fit Time out He doesn't give a shit Got drunk Off all of grandma's schnaps Got caught Runnin' from the cops Toilet Paper on your yard Six f's On my report card Smoke cigs In the bathroom stall Spray paint A penis on the wall Well you gotta understand We only do these things because all we are, are Bad kids, all my friends are bad kids Product of no dad kids Kids like you and me Bad kids, ain't no college grad kids Livin out on the skids Kids like you and me credits

If I had one wish this is what it would be To give 5 dollars to my friend Linsey Just so she can go (go where?) Go to the punk rock show There she goes, she's just a dream to me She's everything that I will ever need There she goes, she's just a dream If I had another wish I'd give her a little kiss Just one on her hand (why so?) Just so she'll understand There she goes, she's just a dream to me She's everything that I will ever need There she goes, she's just a dream You'll need me now You'll need me now And you'll need me now Yes you'll need me now

Mixed up thoughts and contradictions It's time that you and I have a talk I drank down most of my frustrations Let's go for a stroll on the sidewalk I've smoked out all of my temptations It's time that you finally hear the truth I gave up on your deceptions 'Cause my heart ain't bullet proof Blind sighted but I'm still looking Heart broken but I'm still trying Out of words but I'm still talking Broken wings but I'm still searching A slip of the tongue, a roll of the dice You've done it once, I'm sure you'll do it twice Open your eyes and realize You only live once so please don't lie to me Please don't lie to me Take back what you said (Blind sighted but I'm still looking) All these thoughts that were in your head (Heart broken but I'm still trying) If true love really feels like this (Out of words but I'm still talking) Then I don't really want to give a shit (Broken wings but I'm still searching)

It took 3 whole months, to realize that I had something great And like any true romantic would, I fucked it up and I gave it away And now I live with that, every minute of every day I sit here alone at night, wondering if you're missing our ways But I can't hate, on how everything turned out wrong Wrong for me at least I'd say, but we live to see these better days And I'll get by, yeah I'll be good and fine With these strings and these songs I sing, I trust nothing but these melodies This is the ballad of a true romantic A love so sweet, but a story so tragic It fell apart when we both got frantic I blame her words, but also my tactics This is the ballad of a true romantic A love so sweet, but a story so tragic It fell apart when we both got frantic It fell apart yeah, we fell apart yeah It's been 6 full months, since I've seen her or those eyes And damn do I miss that sight, but then again they made me cry Now I'll stand strong, you won't knock me down again And though we may get along, this love has burned from both our ends This is the ballad of a true romantic A love so sweet, but a story so tragic It fell apart when we both got frantic I blame her words, but also my tactics This is the ballad of a true romantic A love so sweet, but a story so tragic It fell apart when we both got frantic It fell apart yeah, we fell apart yeah I stood by you through those days The early mornings and the late night stays And now I'm stuck with this memory The kind that won't ever go away You had my heart and you had my soul (this is my ballad, you've heard it once) You let it go when the wind got cold (now hear it twice while I scream my lungs) I don't think that I'll ever know (this is my ballad, you've heard it once) Why you left me here alone (now hear it twice while I scream my lungs)