The Answer

When a fire starts in the hull

How much time do you have before it spreads to the deck?

When a fire starts in the hull

How much time do you have before it spreads to the deck?

What time is it anyway?

How do you tell your family

That you wanna quit school and just play with your band?

When a fire starts burning

How much time do you have before it burns itself out?

And why do I feel like I'm choking lately?

What am I doing here?

Why do I feel like I'm choking lately?

What am I looking for?

Maybe school or maybe love

Or maybe none of the above is the answer

Maybe for once I'll really try

Or fuck it all and just get high?

'Cause that's an answer

Feels like an answer

And who do I wanna be?

Question twenty three

What's the furthest distance

A ship can be from the shore before it loses its signal?

What's the furthest distance

A ship can be from the shore before it loses its signal?

Why do I feel like I'm choking lately?

What am I doing here?

Why do I feel like I'm choking lately?

What am I looking for?

Maybe school or maybe love

Maybe none of the above is the answer

Maybe for once I'll really try

Or fuck it all and just get high?

'Cause that's an answer

That's an answer

Maybe I'll practice my guitar

Or read a book, or steal a car, and steal the answer

I'll get a job and I'll get paid

Or get a girlfriend, and get laid, and get the answer

I'll join the army, go to war

Give up my smokes or smoke some more, I need an answer

Move to the village, shave my head

Wind up happy, wind up dead

Wind up in debt, wind up in love, or maybe none of the above

Is the answer

Maybe it's okay that I don't have a plan

And I don't have a clue

I'm nineteen, that doesn't mean

That I should know exactly what I wanna do, right?

I'm nineteen and that doesn't mean

That I should know what I wanna do

And I've got time to make mistakes

Make up my mind

And I've got time enough to find out all the answers

But I am scared and I'm afraid

That a decision won't get made

And I'll be like this forever

I need help

Need extra help to find the answers

What's the answer?

I don't know

I don't know

I don't know, I don't know

I don't know

I don't know, I don't know

I don't know

I don't, I don't know

When a fire starts in the hull

How much time do you have before it spreads to the deck?

Pencils down

Papers turned over

Times up