Six years ago a very hot summer night   Avenue A with my friends hanging tight   No future, no goals and no destiny   Hanging on the corner for the world to see      Some friends drunk and some friends high   Laughing talking shit as the people walked by   The air was tense and muggy as fuck   Lower east side running a muck      Guilty by association, judged by who I know   Can't keep all my friends out of trouble   When they got no place to go      Guilty by association, judged by who I know   Can't keep all my friends out of trouble   When they got no place to go      Me drug free   In the midst of it all   Crazy fucking summer   Hanging out with mad ball      People got their ass kicked, people got hurt   But I was accepted for all it was worth   Bad reputations are hard to live down   I'm not guilty for who I hang around      Guilty by association, judged by who I know   Can't keep all my friends out of trouble   When they got no place to go      Guilty by association, judged by who I know   Can't keep all my friends out of trouble   When they got no place to go      Sometimes I felt like an outcast   Trying to talk my friends out of trouble   Tried to be a positive role model   But I got caught up in the rumble      We had ideas scribbled on walls   Six years later our destiny calls   Living our lives some of us in bands   Touring the world but we know where we stand      We play shows together   Or just hanging out   Talking 'bout the good times   How we got out      Still the same fellas and we're still all tight   Young till we die and ready to fight for what's right   As I look back now on that summer vacation   I realize I'll always be guilty by association      Guilty by association, judged by who I know   Can't keep all my friends out of trouble   When they got no place to go      Guilty by association, judged by who I know   Can't keep all my friends out of trouble   When they got no place to go      As I look back now on that summer vacation   I realize I'll always be guilty by association