I was ten when I met my friends at the five stair by the pool
Grandma bought me a baker deck at the skate shop by the school
Greased up curb as I took my turn with a pair of bloody knees
I'd not known that when we'd all grown I would long for times like these
At sixteen years we would drink cheap beers
Try to kill our innocence
Smoked dirt pot and I once got caught
By my ma she was belligerent
Well, highschool ended all my friends had left and gone away
But I stayed home with my epiphone
And I learned five songs a day
And they went "early in the morning rising to the street"
Well, I guess
I'm older now
But I'm afraid of dying
I'm freaking out
Just hold on I'm trying
At twenty years old we had hit the roadi took in every bit of it
From the LA smog to the portland fog I thought that we were living it
Motels ashtrays phone calls fast lanes veteran halls and lies
Well the feelings fade as the people age but the legend never dies
And we sang "coffee in the mornings cocaine afternoons"
I'm older now
But I'm afraid of dying
I'm freaking out
Just hold on I'm trying
