The Life

I'm leaving tonight down the same dirt road

A million times I've driven just to get home

And I ain't ever looking back

For nothing

Headed for the coast, looking for the high life

Everybody knows it's nothing but a good time

And I sold everything I had for something

I can't seem to find

So this is the life they talked about

This is the "I can't live without"

When the real world crashes down

Oh, if they could see me now

When all the dreams of on your own

Turn to nightmares all alone

It hits you right between the eyes

This is the life, this is the life, oh

These four walls feel more like a prison

Instead of paradise I couldn't wait to live in

So I just drink myself

To sleep again

I can't escape my mind, this ain't like a movie

It's getting hard to hide, the more it's doin' to me

Don't know how long I can keep

I'm going crazy all the time

So this is the life they talked about

So this is the "I can't live without"

When the real world crashes down

Oh, if they could see me now

When all the dreams of on your own

Turn to nightmares all alone

It hits you right between the eyes

This is the life, oh

Nothing is ever what it seems

Maybe that grass ain't so green

Nothing's ever out of reach

When you're seventeen

This is the life they talked about

This is the "I can't live without"

When the real world crashes down

Oh, if they could see me now

When all the dreams of on your own

Turn to nightmares all alone

It hits you right between the eyes

This is the life, oh, this is the life, yeah