The Other Side of Twenty Five

Take a look around now sweetheart, these are the days of your youth

Nurse the chip on your shoulder so you'll have something to prove

Pack up all your clothes into a big green van and call it moving with your friends

Forget to call home, think you're alone and you chase after the wind

The world is at your feet, you're buying indoor trees, and your best friend has a car

Your boyfriend's six foot three and kinda mean, but it's okay he plays guitar

Things are looking up, you think "I'm golden, man, if this is 23"

You could be getting older, could be you're finally on those pills for ADD

The week they call it cancer they bail on plans to see a gig

So you pack a bag and take two trains alone to Hebden Bridge

Sylvia is waiting for you in the pouring rain

It makes you feel less lonely putting flowers on her grave

Everybody says that these should be the best days of your life

None of this will matter til you're on the other side of twenty five

Trying to make them like you will always be a waste of time

None of this will matter til you're on the other side of twenty five

When all the cracks are forming, ignore the warnings, you'll hold out until May

Your boyfriend calls ten times about your landlord while you're out for mom's birthday

She takes you to a coffee shop, you have the talk, and she tells you that it's time

You pull the trigger, he's surprised that you feel fine so he tries to make you cry

Your dad says that there's spare room for you in his father's house

He drags his oxygen tank up the stairs to move you out

You ignore the way he's breathing, through the pain he's pushing through

You both know it's the last time that he'll take care of you

Everybody says that these should be the best days of your life

That none of this will matter til you're on the other side of twenty five

The truth is finally hitting that someone you love is running out of time

And none of this will matter til you're on the other side of twenty five

Golden lotus, fiercest flames

We're not made for this much change

Time to reap but time to sow

Somewhere deep inside you know

Everybody says that these should be the best days of your life

That none of them will matter til you're on the other side of twenty five

Everything that isn't life or death is gonna be a waste of time

And none of this will matter til you're on the other side of twenty five