Of everything that's possible In the hearts and minds of man Keep on locking your doors Keep on building your floors Keep on just as before Here at the end, end Pay disasters no mind Didn't get you this time

For that's enough to argue Don't want to be an American idiot All across the idiot nation Where everything isn't meant to be okay Television dreams of tomorrow Welcome to a new kind of tension We're not the ones who're meant to follow Don't want a nation

Whatever happens, don't let go of my hand Whatever, whatever, whatever Don't let go of my hand He gives a nervous smile, tries to understand her side To show that he cares She's consumed with everything that's been goin' on Everything will be alright, he

Separate (I've lost my only way) See the shape (broken and thrown away) Everything else is just dust and sound Too tragic to stay with you Too static to try for you These scars, they swallow hard The part of the past that's hollow and dark Too horrid to

It got me where I am and where I'm gonna go. We learned all about believing And everything we were ever gonna need to know. Somewhere between the back roads and the back row. That's the way it was, and that's the way it is when you're growing Up in the

This could be the end of my world But if she wants to leave She's got everything I want There's nothing stopping me From getting her attention Broken dreams, that's what she's been on But now I'm in the picture And the puzzle pieces of our love start to

Till everything is normal now, I know If that's what's normal now And they will break down When they get excited, they try to hide it Look at those normals go I've never really ever met a normal person And they will break you down I don't want to know Do

And I've wasted all my time in your sea Everything has a reason At least that's what they all say And I've lost my count of the seasons I don't know what's been makin' me stay Many's the times that you've hurt me That's just the way that you live Many a

This isn't everything you are Don't keel over now Don't keel over And in one little moment, it all implodes Breathe deeply in the silence, no sudden moves Just take the hand that's offered, and hold on tight There's joy not far from here, I, I know there

The time is coming Rolling, and throwing, consoling Everything that goes this far Joking and hoping, revolting All that shit that's who you are Hoping, and scolding, revolving Peel it back, reveal the scar Loathing, exploding, controlling Tear me from