"Welcome to the real world,"
She said to me, condescendingly
"Take a seat, take your life
Plot it out in black and white"
Well, I never lived the dreams of the prom kings
And the drama queens
I'd like to think the best of me
Is still hiding up my sleeve

They love to tell you "stay inside the lines",
But something's better on the other side

I wanna run through the halls of my high school,
I wanna scream at the top of my lungs
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
Just a lie you've got to rise above

So the good boys and girls take the so-called right track,
Faded white hats grabbing credits and maybe transfers
They listen to Phish but they can't find the answers
And all of our parents, they're getting older --
I wonder if they've wished for anything better,
While in their memories, tiny tragedies

They love to tell you "stay inside the lines",
But something's better on the other side

I wanna run through the halls of my high school,
I wanna scream at the top of my lungs
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
Just a lie you've got to rise above

I am invincible
You are invincible
We are invincible
As long as we're alive
We're alivealive

See this shirt I'm wearin'?
Used to wear it all the time
Workin' at a gas station,
Dreamin' about the sensation, of playin' for you, playin' for me
Yeah, I gave the wrong change all the time --
Always ate the ho-ho's without payin a dime
What they don't tell you is, you'll get a spare tire in time
But I digress
See I'm wearing that same shirt I wore back then
And now I'm on stage playing for all yall
What does that say to you?

Maybe one day I'll go back
Maybe one day
It'll be some special promotional thing
When you fill up with at least eight gallons
You get a special John Mayer CD sampler,
With a version of this song on it

Don't apply theory to things
That inherently don't need theory at all
Don't

I wanna run through the halls of my high school
I wanna scream at the top of my lungs
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
just a lie you've got to rise above

I just can't wait till my ten year reunion
I'm gonna bust down the double doors
and when I stand on these tables before you
you will know what all this time was for

ha-ha Thank you very much