Today I find myself in silence In the middle of a barren town In the middle of an empty car park Next to a house that's just burned down In a state of perpetual stillness While ashen boards bend beneath my feet I found the motorcycle helmet Of a man who used to rule these streets And when he wore it It shined red in the sun Yeah when he put it on Was not afraid of anyone Today I found a girl in math class In the middle of a shitty day Things were awkward and awesome I wouldn't have it any other way We watch My Little Pony We make bad jokes and nap We make baked goods and music We take another nap and then we go to class And when she chills with me There's no place I'd rather be Yeah when she's by my side I'm not afraid of anything And now I sit a little while in my cluttered room Thinking "Man, I hope someday I get to go to the moon" Thinking "Life's a little hard, but it'll be just fine" Don't need to run away because I just learned how to fly I really want telekinesis I really wanna smell the stars I want a big damn talk show I want a solid platinum car But for the sake of gratuity I'll write my name on a satellite But as far as my hopes and dreams go, I just wanna sing tonight

The best days of my life will be the ones I spend with you When all of this pays off and the fight for peace is through When police can be trusted and folks can live their lives When the government's run by more than money, hope, and lies When the people work to improve as a whole society And there's more to a business than working for your greed When there's more to making music than having profitable traits When there's more to believing than having a little faith We all wanna change the world And some day things will turn out the way they're meant to stay And the bombs will lie dormant, everything will be okay And the people who fight now will be free at last to sing Songs of freedom, can't you hear it? Yeah, some day we'll be free The streets will be flooded with people come to see The sun rise in a new world that's free from tyranny And the people will yell out through broken jaws and say "Yeah, we did it! It was worth it! We're finally free!" We all wanna change the world

I rode a wave of selfishness Into the heart of a burning city And when I said that I was done, There was nothing left to hear me I'm not changing because you want me to, I'm changing because I'm new now And if that's just another lie, Then I'm not good enough for you I could fill a book with things that I regret or I could Fill a book with things I won't forget about you I could sing a song about the ways that I've been bad or I could Sing a song about good times that we had before I left I rode a long way in a bus It was my last chance to see you Then we marched down the street And the put us on the news Slept on the floor at Johnny's house Felt like shit the next day But I stayed the night just one more time For that one last chance to see your face I could fill a book with things that I forget or I could Fill a book with things I don't regret I did for you I could sing a song about the ways that I've been had or I could Sing a song about days that would be bad without you I thought about the words you wrote When I was all confused about this What kind of world will next year bring? Truly, you will be missed But it won't be like with Michigan, I swear I'll write you letters Because the loneliness will get to us And we'll both need to feel better I could fill a book with things that I regret or I could Fill a book with things I won't forget about you I could sing a song about the ways that I've been bad or I could Sing a song about good times that we had before I left

When I grow up, I wanna live amongst the stars I wanna sing my songs to aliens and breathe without a helmet on I wanna piece of paper that'll stretch across the stars just like a scroll And write a song to fill it up, one that will never get old I'll fill my stomach every day with dying stars and comets and I'll never have a bedtime and everything will glow in the dark I'll have a cool guitar with shiny finish made of space stuff I'll have a cool guitar with shiny finish made of space stuff I'll have a planet all my own where people come when they are Sick of every other place and just want to be alone And on my planet, you'll be safe from all the things that fucked you up, And you'll be safe and you'll be sound and you will always be loved And when you've had enough of loneliness and need a new friend, Just ring the bell and we'll send down an application You'll have a cool new friend with similar interests made of space stuff You'll have a cool new friend with similar interests made of space stuff And if the planet self-destructs, bodies evaporating, I won't go power mad like the universe is my new play thing I'll have a planet all my own where people come when they are Sick of every other place and just want to be alone And on my planet, you'll be safe from all the things that fucked you up, And you'll be safe and you'll be sound and you will always be loved I'll have a cool guitar with shiny finish made of space stuff You'll have a cool new friend with similar interests made of space stuff When we evaporate, we'll all melt down and turn to space stuff, yeah When we evaporate, we'll all melt down and turn to space stuff Turn to space stuff Turn to space stuff