The Impending Glory of American Adulthood
a year ago id have felt like this:
Incapable of holding down real jobs
And can't make rent
So for a life in the arts
We deem ourselves destined
Skip across my record collection
Until a song strikes my soul
Until it distances the earth
Between me and my home
With the lazy shame of my parents' money
And the senseless sweat of my own
Kids, we're in this together
You're my new consumer and I don't want to move back home
So put a big black sticker on the front
That says "for fans of..."
And you can donate a penny to my future pension
We've got big retail chain front-of-store displays
But remember it's 3-grand for a half-page ad
So you better be paying attention
Yeah, you're a beautiful consumer
And I don't want to move back home
So download all the songs we wrote
And hype it up with some bullshit quotes
Yeah, we're on a roll
but nowadays i feel more like:
If it seems as of late
I've stopped sitting around talking about the bands I hate
Maybe I'm starting to relate
How could anyone have anything to say?
And if your inspiration's vacant
It's 'cause you're sitting in a basement
Wasting away day after day
I feel the same way
How can anyone have anything to say?
When was the last time anything happened to me?
Of limited income and even less experience
When was the first time you thought this is where we should always be?
So vacant day after day
This is the last time you'll see the likes of me
I could stay and play the part of the youngest has-been
In the dark at card tables, rehashing old visions
Put the impending glory aside and make the same decisions in life
As my parents, take the rightful place as the patron saint of...
When was the last time anything happened to me?
Of limited income and even less experience
When was the first time you thought this is where we should always be?
So vacant day after day
This is the last time you'll see the likes of me
I'm worth my weight in the glory of yesterday
I'm worth my weight in the glory of yesterday
I'm worth my weight in the glory of yesterday
I'm worth my weight in the glory of yesterday
I'm worth my weight in the glory of yesterday
Worth my weight in vacancy
Incapable of holding down real jobs
And can't make rent
So for a life in the arts
We deem ourselves destined
Skip across my record collection
Until a song strikes my soul
Until it distances the earth
Between me and my home
With the lazy shame of my parents' money
And the senseless sweat of my own
Kids, we're in this together
You're my new consumer and I don't want to move back home
So put a big black sticker on the front
That says "for fans of..."
And you can donate a penny to my future pension
We've got big retail chain front-of-store displays
But remember it's 3-grand for a half-page ad
So you better be paying attention
Yeah, you're a beautiful consumer
And I don't want to move back home
So download all the songs we wrote
And hype it up with some bullshit quotes
Yeah, we're on a roll
but nowadays i feel more like:
If it seems as of late
I've stopped sitting around talking about the bands I hate
Maybe I'm starting to relate
How could anyone have anything to say?
And if your inspiration's vacant
It's 'cause you're sitting in a basement
Wasting away day after day
I feel the same way
How can anyone have anything to say?
When was the last time anything happened to me?
Of limited income and even less experience
When was the first time you thought this is where we should always be?
So vacant day after day
This is the last time you'll see the likes of me
I could stay and play the part of the youngest has-been
In the dark at card tables, rehashing old visions
Put the impending glory aside and make the same decisions in life
As my parents, take the rightful place as the patron saint of...
When was the last time anything happened to me?
Of limited income and even less experience
When was the first time you thought this is where we should always be?
So vacant day after day
This is the last time you'll see the likes of me
I'm worth my weight in the glory of yesterday
I'm worth my weight in the glory of yesterday
I'm worth my weight in the glory of yesterday
I'm worth my weight in the glory of yesterday
I'm worth my weight in the glory of yesterday
Worth my weight in vacancy