special

Hurry up before you go and get old

Hurry up before your blood runs cold

None of us were ever meant to stay

We're all gonna find out one day

You see life's too short to run it like a race

So it's never gonna matter if you win first place

'Cause we're all the same

Stop waitin' on your fifteen minutes of fame, 'cause you're not special

I'm not tryin' to rain on your parade, but you're not special

I'm not tryin' to bring you down, I'm not tryin' to sound so ineffectual

But you're not special

Hurry up before the bottle kicks in

Before the poison and the pain sets in (Get up, get up)

If you take it down a notch and you let me explain

That on this earth we are all the same

And all I can say is...

Stop waitin' on your fifteen minutes of fame, 'cause you're not special

I'm not tryin' to rain on your parade, but you're not special

I'm not tryin' to bring you down, I'm not tryin' to sound so ineffectual

'Cause you're not special

We all live to love, we all fall apart

We'd all go to war for the faint of heart

Instead we're condescending

There are no happy endings

I won't hold my breath, I won't cast a doubt

I'd never sell you out

But I'll give you one last chance to own it

'Cause you're not a god or a poet, so...

Stop waitin' on your fifteen minutes of fame, 'cause you're not special

I'm not tryin' to rain on your parade, but you're not special

I'm not tryin' to bring you down, I'm not tryin' to sound so ineffectual

But you're not special

(Get up, get up, get a move on)

(Get up, get up, ain't nothin' wrong) But you're not special

(Get up, get up, get a move on)

(Stop stallin', I'm callin' out) But you're not special

'Cause you're not special

'Cause you're not special