Nothing Lyrics

Streetlights, stop signs, speed limits of twenty-five

Well-tended lawns, trimmed hedges

And swimming pools fenced up in the front of my mind

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, then Monday all over again

I stopped to smell the roses, slipped and fell face first into the garden

There's nothing there for me

There's nothing I can see that makes suburbia worth while

It's twenty minutes to the nearest Walgreens and I

Catch a movie, catch a cold, catch feelings, catch a body in the rye

It's 8:30 again and we may as well go out for a midnight drive

But everything worth thinking about doing is out a half hour or more

So we head down to the docks, get high and hope we stay ashore

There's nothing there for you

There's nothing you can do to make the emptiness subside

It's an hour drive to your therapist and I

There's nothing here for us to do but stay under the gun

There's nothing worth the fuss of waking up before the sun

Nothing is my king and country, nothing wastes my time

It creeps out from the closets straight into our minds

So fuck my home town

Fuck those loose ends

Fuck my high school

And all my ex-girlfriends

Mom and dad I'm sorry

But I ain't coming home no more

Cuz nothing there can hurt me

So wave goodbye to the Chesapeake shores