Maybe it would be fun   To get a new opinion   Get a little work done   And forget      Maybe it would be cool   If I rocked it old school   Try to break a gold rule   And a sweat      Better than the first time   Better than the worst time   If I could just reverse time   I'd be set      CHORUS:   Testing 1,2,3   Can anybody hear me?   If I shed the irony   Would anybody cheer me?   If I acted less like me   Would I be in the clear?      She got a new apartment   It's out on the escarpment   And in her glove compartment   Are my songs      She hasn't even heard them   Since she found out what the words meant   She decided she preferred them   All wrong      Kind of like the last time   With a bunch of really fast times   If we're living in the past time   Soon gone      CHORUS      We recognize the present   Is half as pleasant   As our nostalgia for      The past'll be presented   Recast and reinvented   Until it's how we meant it      CHORUS      He's everything that you need   You wiped out on your ten speed   And either he will succeed   Or just suck      CHORUS      Begin the...      CHORUS    Would I be in the clear, G?      Testing 1,2,3   Testing 1,2,3