it don't mean nothing (if it don't last) Lyrics

Johnny's got a really nice car

He doesn't really care if his friends can't afford the ride

He's that kind of guy

He's not good looking; he's hot

The girls don't really mind his face when he got that bod

And it's alright

Johnny's got a really nice gal

She says "Johnny boy, I want to be the center of your world"

Now that would be swell

He's always got her on his arm

But when she's not around he's feeling up the other girls

Oh could it get worse?

Everybody thought he had the life

On the happy side of the paradigm

But one day the fates didn't all align

'Cause Johnny was a very bad boy

When they found out, all his women left

And when he reached out but he couldn't find a friend

And Johnny boy still couldn't understand

That it don't mean nothin' if it don't last

Johnny ran away to Prague

If he's taking second chances, he's gonna take them far away

A sacrifice play

He's popping pills and singing his songs

The TV in the bar watches him waste away

Waste away

A lady sees him sitting alone

She walks up and says hey boy I wanna play along

What could go wrong?

She takes him back to her room

She wants to take it off and maybe even get it on

But Johnny feels wrong

He wakes in the morning feeling like a mess

The lady's gone but he's got emptiness

Then the thought passes through this head

It don't mean nothin' if it don't last

Nothing, nothing

Nothing, nothing

Now an old man he waters his plants

One of these days he'll breathe his last

He smiles anyway and he thanks his past

'Cause it might have meant something, though it didn't last

His neighbour cheats on her man, a test

That haunted Johnny boy, never let him rest

When they're done and she's on his bed she says

It don't mean nothin' 'cause it won't last