Let's take a trip downtown
To a place where nothing makes sense and you
Have no friends
All the dirty and discarded lives
Half lived till the day they die
All seem like paradise
In my simple eyes with my simple mind
If we cut our losses and just go home
God only knows, god only knows
We are the youth
And we're all alone
Still living the dream and no one knows
Why we go home
Screaming into our pillows
Holding our heads under low
Unprepared for the rest of the world
I'll see it sink in first
My ego must live for the worst
Let's take a trip downtown
Stepping softly onto hallowed ground
Where we sweetly speak
For the love and life
Of youthful night
And youthful dreams
It's love
It's pain
It's the way to maintain
And stand free for who we'll be
When we grow up and see
Life isn't what we thought it would be
We are the youth
And we're all alone
Still living the dream and no one knows
Why we go home
Screaming into our pillows
Holding our heads under low
Unprepared for the rest of the world
I'll see it sink in first
My ego must live for the worst
Let's take a trip downtown
To a place where we don't need love
And we don't need drugs
And we don't need guns
To live and run someplace far away from here
From here