How To Lose A War

Maybe this vaguely anxious feeling can't compare

To how I think I've gotten by the last few years

And when the walls and floor and ceiling fall apart

I stand in the rubble waiting for my turn

Through alleyways and heart attacks

We won't make it farther than the interstate

We won't make it farther than the interstate

Lay my tattered sneakers next to yours

In a box marked how to lose a war

Maybe we're going down in flames

But not defeated just bled out

Through alleyways and heart attacks

We won't make it farther than the interstate

We won't make it farther than the interstate

Through alleyways and heart attacks

Through alleyways and heart attacks

I guess we'll learn to live with colder thinner air

Why did we think anyone would care

If no one stops to look up when we're stepping through the door

Cause we're not twenty-one anymore

If we were stronger, better, faster, more prepared

Saw through crystal balls to graying hair

We could've known that no one stops to listen

When we hit the night's first chord

Cause we're not twenty-one anymore

We won't make it farther than the interstate

We won't make it farther than the interstate

We won't make it back