Lyrics

I could?ve really been someone, I could?ve been a contender
But I lost my train of thought and you lost your temper
Always seems that youth is wasted on someone like me
Looking back this was not how I planned things to be

And if you don?t believe it then it never really happened
You can see it your way but I?ll never understand it
It was so much easier when you thought that I was wrong
You didn?t see it coming but I knew it all along

They can waste their bullets fighting wars of misperception
I will stare out into space inching to perfection
No one wants to hear me or my matters of opinion
And I?m keeping this in mind every time I give them

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You will be preserved in my memory forever
Tuesday in December back in 1997
We had driven upstate to go shopping for some records
Things will have to get much worse if you want them to get better

Repeat chorus