You thought you had it made   Like the songs would write themselves   But your words ran out of ink   And your fingers lost the chords   You lay around so bored   And you hit the bar at two   And you waste your time on girls   They know they're getting used      They love the pain that you create   The drunken fights you fabricate   'Cause they've been hurt too   Worse than you   You told yourself it's not your fault   You told them not to get involved   Some bullshit excuse to escape unbruised      But they move on while you're stuck hating yourself deprecation   Yourself centered songs   The space you've created   Between your words and your actions   These loveless liaisons have left you alone   All you've gained is a loss      You really wish it wasn't like it was   But like before that time    You wished it was a little more   Than how you felt before that time   You made a wish to think the way you felt   When you were young   When you realized you'd never ever, ever know a love   You wished and prayed and you tried to stay   In love or at least in your lover's good graces   Just keep it going, just keep it going      'Cause when they leave the drinks get stronger   And much, much more frequent   For the sloppy drunk boys   Who hide in their basements   Where the songs write themselves   Yeah it used to be easy   before we got lazy   and drank with the girls   No, no I know it's not your fault   No, no no, no, no you said not to get involved   Whatever makes you happy   Whatever you need to believe   in all these self afflicted tradgedies   You scribble them down on that miserable sound   I guess this is the goodlife      no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no baby   (let it go)      Self deprecation has made it's translation   These lyrics are done