You are my favorite miracle

When the world finally ends, only then will our destinies doubt usWhen we spin off the edge of our steps and our couches

When just the hidden songs are left

On our cassettes and our albums

Can we expect that something better surrounds us

When we exit our houses?

The death of my childhood would unfold in notches

It was a caving social comet of a stolen promise

So how′d we grow up but not grow up into

Who we said we'd grow up into?

We said we knew someday we′d grow up beyond this

Now I'm as lonely as the town drunk who only

Knows he's a man when he′s holding

A handful of soco and daniels

Sitting at the bar calling all the college girls over

To sing them Billy Joel karaoke from a broken piano

I don′t wanna end up just like him

I'll keep on writing till my bookmark bends

I′ll keep on writing till I lose

All that's left of my good-heart friends

Until I′ve spent all that's golden and that took our breaths

If only it matters, I′ll probably take the loneliest stance

On this unholy abandoned home to mean we always'll carry it

With the strength of an ocean I'll go like soldiers in battle

And looking back over my shoulder see the roads that we travel

Without the worst nights

In my glory years

Without the holes in the rooftops we climbed on

Without the dead nights

In the adventure life

Without the memories we′d never bet our lives on

How would I know

Whoever I am

Without the long drives

To anywhere that we were always miles from

If these are the best of times I don′t want mine back

The glory years I always thought I'd have are here

So for anybody who feels like they still have

The best years of their life left to live

I′m right there with you

We nicknamed my best friend Ghost

For all the haunts he'd have

There′s more to life

Than the glory years that we thought we'd have

We formed a pact for down the road in case we lost track

Of dollar diner coffee calls and screen porch menthol packs

If you end up somewhere in an office selling car glass

And I still live at home in five years, let′s get our maps

And tape 'em to the window seat, we could travel north fast

Small town kids who learned to fight from our divorced dads

Know the rules of separation like our palms

Tired-eyed of watching burning houses from our lawns

If only we could find a weight in vacant distant summers

And fall in deep enough love

We'd make our parents miss each other

One story starts for every one that never made it

I kissed my first girlfriend on an air mattress that levitated

I used to hate the ground, its roots and holes were bound to fail

But making out in UFOs at the Orange County Fair

Made me feel like something from another world would save us

Or some great tragedy would come along to turn my pages

Maybe I was waiting for a battlefield to earn my place in

So looking back at us the world can see we were courageous

But all our worry signs and torn up lives I won′t ignore

Fell in love too many times at least we got to know our floors

I don′t plan to ever get the moments we've been hoping for

A couple years later, fast forward

Now I know I won′t try

I know I won't try

I won′t spend my whole life

Looking for an answer that I won't find

Now I know I won′t find it, damn right I won't find it

I'mma take potential, unbury it like I′m gold mining

I′ll take my pen and I'll press it in

Pray my penmanship resurrects my depressions

My friendships, my on-my-own crisis

Because I′m only twenty-two

How am I wishing for the wisdom

That's been missing in collision with my old life

I said I′m only twenty-two,

How the fuck am I wishing for what's

Missing from an old life?

Without the worst nights

In my glory years

Without the lows in the rooftops we dived from

Without the dead nights

In the adventure life

Without the people that you never could rely on

Man how would you know

Whoever you are

Without the long drives

Down the black midnight roads that we almost died on

These are the best of times and I don′t want mine back

The glory years I always swore I'd have aren't here

But I got wrongs, I got roves, I got seams

I got long intermissions where I lost my feet

I got my best friends behind me, yeah I brought my team

They′re in the background singing like that′s "all I need"

The orange lights, the ocean gasping, this all will pass

If my quarter life flashes short enough to make my story last

There's more to write than the pouring rain and the autumn grass

There′s more to drive to than all the places you'd wanna crash

There′s more to life than the glory years

That you thought you'd have

And I don′t know where I am

I'm just lost in my glory years