Before You Go

Phone calls from a foreign country

Rich kids asking for money

Newsflash that the summer's ending

Are they looking out for you and me?

Fallout in the plastic ocean

While you're putting on your tannin' lotion

Holiday while the beach is burnin'

Are they looking out for you and me?

Are they looking out for you and me?

Every night when the sun goes down

Hear that high and lonesome sound

Raise a glass for the poor and broken

Lonely faces still enduring

Days ahead

Hangin' 'round for better things

Wake the dead

Any kind of song you sing

Before you go here's all those things you always wanted

Sit alone in an empty theater

Now you see it all much clearer

A sad film with a happy ending

Are they looking out for you and me?

Silent prayers and words of guidance

Finding peace in a local riot

Stay at home, have it all delivered

Are they looking out for you and me?

Are they looking out for you and me?

Days ahead

Hangin' 'round for better things

Wake the dead

Any kind of song you sing

Here we go now

From the past into the future

Late at night when the moon is low

With the ones that didn't go

Raise a glass for the poor and broken

Lonely faces still enduring

Days ahead

Hangin' 'round for better things

Wake the dead

Any kinda song you sing

Days ahead

Hanging on for better things

Before you go here's all those things you always wanted

Before you go