That's how it starts
We go back to your house
You check the charts
Start to figure it out

And if it's crowded, then all the better,
'Cause we know we're gonna be up late
But if you're worried about the weather,
Then you've picked the wrong place to stay

That's how it starts

And so it starts
You switch the engine on
We set controls for the heart of the sun
One of the ways that we show our age
And if the sun comes up,
If the sun comes up,
If the sun comes up
And I still don't want to stagger home,
Then it's the memory of our feathers
That is keeping us on our feet

You spent the first five years trying to get with the plan
And the next five years trying to be with your friends again
You're talking forty-five times just as fast as you can
Yeah, I know it gets tired but it's better when we pretend

It comes apart
The way it does in bad films
The except the part,
Where the moral kicks in
Though when we're running out of the drugs,
And the conversation grinding away,
I wouldn't trade one stupid decision
For another five years of life

Oh, you took the first ten years just as fast as you can
And the next ten people who were trying to be polite
When you're blowing eighty-five days in the middle of France
Oh I know it gets tired
Oh but where are your friends tonight?

To tell the truth,
This could be the last time
So here we go
Like a sales force into the night
And if I made a fool,
If I made a fool,
If I made a fool on the road,
There's always this,
And if I'm soothed into submission,
I could still come home to this

(Remainder is unknown)