The Days Of Arcadia/Why Is It So Difficult? Lyrics

Back in the days of

Arcadia

Rough and tumble days

Fighting in the park

Back before true love

My stadia

Were the rocky bays

And grass under dark

When I think back on

Those spiky pines

And those dusty paths

Next to the trash cans

And know they're long gone

Changed with the times

No more swampy baths

No more dirty hands

They dropped a rock on

Top of my head - pain

Crackled throughout my skull, punctured that child

They too are all gone

Every last shit stain

They fled to other lands beyond the wild

Arcadia

Where have you gone

Could've sworn you were here just yesterday

I can't see ya

Where'd I turn wrong

Where's that smell of root beer and sweet decay

Back in the years of

My summer youth

Underneath the sun

Bathing in the light

Back before true love

Stripped of its truth

I'd forever run

At least until night

And I remember

That floating ice

Disks riding the waves

In the winter cold

It was December

And yet still nice

Like the seaside caves

Hiding plastic gold

You'd stumble and find

Such a treasure trove

At least once every week - just finders keepers

Back inside my mind

Standing at the cove

Back where the sea's roar could wake up all sleepers

Arcadia

Where have you gone

Could've sworn you were here just yesterday

I can't see ya

Where'd I turn wrong

Where's that smell of root beer and tooth decay

I can't go back there

Because it's nowhere

It doesn't seem fair

Isn't it out there

You said it, Goethe

Didn't it hurt ya

Was it as painful

As your disdain? Still

I seek for you, though

I know there's no hope

I will never find you - I am locked outside

I wish I could go

Shuffle on and cope

I don't know what to do

Now that you have died

Arcadia

Where have you gone

Could've sworn you were here just yesterday

I can't see ya

Where'd I turn wrong

Where's that smell of root beer by the old bay

Arcadia

Where have you gone

Could've sworn you were here just yesterday

I can't see ya

Where'd I turn wrong

I wish I could stay here, but there's no way

Here I am, back again, in a new school

In the rain, half insane, but faking cool

I know him, I know them, I don't know her

Who is she? Could she be...? But why wonder

I'm alone, I'm not home, I don't belong

I'm sorrow, don't follow - I am just too strong

What if she's just like me

Oh, well, who cares

I won't be hers to see

Despite the stares

Nevertheless, have to confess, I like her

End of the day, what can I say? If we were

Going to be, going to see each other

I don't know if I could resist being hers

Why is it so difficult to say how I feel

Maybe I just can't accept that all this is real

I don't know how

How to tell her simple facts

How 'bout right now

How about you kiss my ass

Everything's so complicated - I don't know why

Maybe not to the old, jaded - it's my first try

How should I know

Know the right way to approach

Flying solo

But come on, I'm flying coach

Here I sit, learning shit, playing the fool

Outside rain, inside pain, it's like a rule

Inside fab, outside drab, does it matter

Learning jack, sitting back, just behind her

I say hi, it's a lie, hiding the truth

How I feel, is it real? Where is the proof

Is this need? Is this greed?

Is this pretense

How to tell? Go through hell

Am I that dense

Nevertheless, have to confess, I like her

End of the day, what can I say? If we were

Going to be, going to see each other

I don't know if I could resist being hers

Why is it so difficult to say how I feel

Maybe I just can't accept that all this is real

I don't know how

How to tell her simple facts

How 'bout right now

How about you kiss my ass

Everything's so complicated - I don't know why

Maybe not to the old, jaded - it's my first try

How should I know

Know the right way to approach

Flying solo

But come on, I'm flying coach

Her friends tell me she wants to be mine

But I think I'm happy staying blind

They say ask her, that she will not mind

But I think I'd rather brood and pine

Why is it so difficult to say how I feel

Maybe I just can't accept that all this is real

I don't know how

How to tell her simple facts

How 'bout right now

How about you kiss my ass

Everything's so complicated - I don't know why

Maybe not to the old, jaded - it's my first try

How should I know

Know the right way to approach

Flying solo

But come on, I'm flying coach

Why is it so difficult to say those three words

Every word out of my mouth lands like a dog turd

I don't love her, but I like her, well, a lot

I don't know her... well I could still take a shot

Everything's so complicated - I don't know why

Maybe not to the old, jaded - it's my first try

How should I know

Know the right way to approach

Flying solo

But come on, I'm flying coach