Teenage American Style Lyrics

I wish there was a way to start most every day

Start dead with no feeling

I wish I'd seen the need, so I could intercede

As time cuts along

I wish I'd had the chance of some significance

At least a warm embrace

And though I'd rather be alive - I'd rather be alive

As time cuts along

There are many ways to feel special

There are many ways to feel secure

Because your friends are near when you need them

I wish I could forget foreboding epithets hidden in your words

And if I'd had the chance given the circumstance

As time cuts along

The days are touch and go, the nights only so-so

Without the man from Mars

And though I'd rather be alive - I'd rather be alive

As time cuts along

There are many ways to feel special

There are many ways to feel secure

Because your friends are near when you need them

It reminds me of a girl in another life

She was scared alive and so she snuck down to the garage

She found herself a rope and her favorite chair

She slung the rope around the highest beam

And you know this girl was so soft and so sweet

She stepped up on the chair and leapt into midair

She shit her pants and swung... Teenage American Style