I once knew a boy with his hand on a bottle   He kept for the end of the day   He would cradle it close to his heart   And explain that it helped keep the demons away   He would drink till he's dizzy and pass out on Wednesdays   And claim that he felt no pain   I made it out from this scene of addiction   But everyone mostly stayed      Hey hey hey      I once knew a boy with his nose to a toilet   And a habit that grew with each day   He was loud and obnoxious   And perfectly cautious to drive every person away   So he turned to a powder to mask all his failures   That managed to numb the pain   I made it out from this scene of distraction   But everyone mostly stayed      Hey hey hey      I once knew a girl with her pants round her ankles   And a different boy every day   She would tell them she loved them   And emptily fuck them till everything went away   She would cry into pillows and write in a diary   "I'd much prefer death to this pain"   I made it out from this scene of depression   But everyone mostly stayed      Hey hey hey      Hey hey hey   We are calling for help   Hey hey hey   We can't deal with this by ourselves      Hey hey hey   We are calling for help   No one listens   When we need it   And we need it      I once knew a town with an absence of sunlight   Where the same thing would happen each day   People got burned out and stopped having futures   And watched what they had slip away   It's an American story about an excess of money   And kids who destroy what they've made   I made it out from this scene of destruction   But everyone mostly stayed