In the suburbs I I learned to drive And you told me we'd never survive Grab your mother's keys we're leavin' You always seemed so sure That one day
Searching in, in an empty room Searching in, in an empty room Something I would never do Searching in, in an empty room Searching in, in an empty room
Businessmen drink my blood Like the kids in art school said they would And I guess I'll just begin again You say can we still be friends If I was scared
Now that San Francisco's gone, I guess I'll just pack it in. Wanna wash away my sins, In the presence of my friends. You and I we head back East, To
This town's so strange They built it to change And while we're sleeping all the streets, they rearrange And my old friends, we were so different then Before your war against the suburbs
May everybody sing love In the city watch it from above And just when I knew what I wanted to say The violent wind blew the wires away (We were shocked in the suburbs
You told us that We were too young Now that night's closing in And in the half light We run Lock us up safe And hide the key But the night tears us loose
Let's go downtown and watch the modern kids Let's go downtown and talk to the modern kids They will eat right out of your hand Using great big words
The summer that I broke my arm I waited for your letter I have no feeling for you now Now that I know you better I wish that I could have loved you
of the century Compressed on a tiny screen A dead star collapsing and we could see That something was ending Are you through pretending We saw its signs in the suburbs
So I wait my turn, I'm a modern man And the people behind me, they can't understand Makes me feel like Makes me feel like So I wait in line, I'm a modern
They heard me singing and they told me to stop Quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock These days my life, I feel it has no purpose But
If I could have it back All the time that we wasted I'd only waste it again If I could have it back You know I'd love to waste it again Waste it again
to go, and what to do Wasted hours, that you made new And turned into A life that we can live Some cities make you lose your head Endless suburbs stretched
I used to write, I used to write letters, I used to sign my name I used to sleep at night Before the flashing lights settled deep in my brain But by
Took a drive into the sprawl To find the house where we used to stay in Couldn't read the number in the dark You said let's save it for another day
In the suburbs I I learned to drive And you told me we'd never survive Grab your mother's keys we're leaving You always seemed so sure That one day we
