27 Club Lyrics

Hey, Gert, it's dad

Calling to wish you a happy birthday

Hope you're having a great time out in California

Just calling to check on you

Love you

Bye

Had a dream the 27 Club was waiting on me

Couldn't bear another birthday cake just short of my dreams

So I wrote a farewell letter to my friends and family

Waited for the rain and wrapped my car around a tree

The funeral was beautiful but I was surprised

Even the girls I knew from high school all had tears in their eyes

My brothers and my sisters held each other for dear life

My mother, oh my god, I couldn't even stand the sight

I woke up and I heard a voice that said

Here's a list of what you'd miss if you were dead

The stars in the sky, the tear in his eye

When you're standing at the altar

The phone calls from your father

The nights you hardly survived

But you made it to the morning

That's gotta count for something

The truth is no one makes it out alive

But I'm gonna try

Smoke is finally clearing and I'm looking around

Joey's got a nice girlfriend and Joel's moving out

We've been trading weekend benders for nights in on the couch

We're all getting older and it's better somehow

And I met someone who's good to me

I'm learning to be good to me

I think we're gonna make it

Oh, to think that I would trade it for

The stars in the sky, the tear in his eye

When I'm standing at the altar

The phone calls from my father

The nights I hardly survived

But I made it to the morning

That's gotta count for something

The truth is no one makes it out alive

But I'm gonna try

I'm gonna try

I'm gonna try to find the silver lining

Believe in perfect timing

Not everything I think about myself is true

So I think I'll keep

The stars in the sky, the tear in his eye

When we're standing at the altar

The phone calls from my father

The nights we hardly survived

But we made it to the morning

That's gotta count for something

The truth is no one makes it out alive

But I'm gonna try