Eight years old and he's kicking and screaming "I'll only go to school if you give me a reason the kids are really mean and I already know all the things they're teaching" hopped in the car momma let him play hookie missed the first hour just to get a cup of coffee she's the only one who saw who he was no one else could read him showing up late but he makes it to class just to stare out the window and the clock in the back he daydreams away to a sky so grey everything's simple it's driving him mental wishing every day that something would change instead his dad makes him play ball by the bay and every time he cries father rolls his eyes says "son it's all your fault how come you never try" he does all that he should why is he misunderstood
This is the story of a broken boy with his headphones in just to block out the noise of everyone around him telling him the way to go as he walks the world alone wondering if it gets better or of he's always gonna feel empty forever so he gets lost tryna find another way back home as he walks this world
15 years and he's drowning his sorrows smoking weed drinking cheap liquor from bottles with a bunch of fake friends cause he tried to fit in but it wasn't working ran in with the law about a dozen of times nothing too bad just a few suburban crimes still he says to himself what are you doing you don't deserve this don't you know nobody will ever understand the person that you are learn to hold your own hand pull your shit together and lose the weight you'll never be what you want no not with that face he started writing all of his thoughts on paper realized music made life so much greater 100 pounds down he looks so different now as he plans his escape from a crooked home town he does all that he should why is he misunderstood
This is the story of a broken boy with his headphones in just to block out the noise of everyone around him telling him the way to go so he walks the world alone wondering if it gets better or if he's always gonna feel empty forever so he gets lost tryna find another way back home as he walks the world alone alone alone
21 years and he's on the right path but sometimes he wonders if he grew up too fast he missed out on the little things all of the little things (heh yeah right) who is he kidding surely not himself but sometimes he wonders if there's somebody else who takes the same road but he'll never know cause he walks the world alone
This is the story about a broken boy with his headphones in just to block out the noise of everyone around him telling him the way to go so he walks the world alone wondering if it gets better or if he's always gonna feel empty forever so he gets lost tryna find another way back home as he walks the world alone alone alone as he walks the world alone alone alone yeah he walls the world alone
