That's how it starts, we go back to your house You check the charts, and start to figure it out And if it's crowded, all the better Because we know we're gonna be up late But if you're worried about the weather Then you pick the wrong place to stay That's how it starts And so it starts, you switch the engine on We set controls for the heart of the sun One of the ways that we show our age And if the sun comes up And I still don't want to stagger home Then it's the memory of our betters That are keeping us on our feet You spend your first five years trying to get with a friend And the next five years trying to be with your friends again You're talking 45 turns just as fast as you can Yeah, I know it gets tired, but it's better when we pretend It comes apart the way it does in bad films Except the part where the moral kicks in Though we're running out of drugs And the conversation's grinding away I wouldn't trade one stupid decision For another five years of life Oh, you drop the first ten years just as fast as you can And the next ten people who are trying to be polite When you're blowing 85 stairs in the middle of France Yeah, I know it gets tired, but we're better young friends tonight Can't pretend it's true Oh, this could be the last time So let me go Like a salesforce into the night And if I made a fool, if I made a fool If I made a fool of you, oh, there's always this And if I'm soon into submission I can still come home to this And with a face like a dad at a laughable stand You can sleep on the plane, I'll review what you said When you're drunk and the kids look impossible dead You think over and over, hey, I'm finally dead Oh, the drip and the glimp on the part of your head You can tell it on yourself, you're ridiculous probably No, I forgot what you meant when you read what you said And yeah, we knew you were tired, but then we're young friends tonight We're young friends tonight We're young friends tonight If I could see all my friends tonight If I could see all my friends tonight