It Could've Been Worse

Where you come from

You learn to disappear

To cover up your fear

With punk rock and stuff

When you were a kid

You listened to The Clash

You learned to never ask

Where your daddy was

Once more around the old main drag

They never said it but they thought you were a fag

Some people push till a kid goes boom

Late at night it got dark in your room

Ah your love in a car

You promised her everything

Not knowing what everything

Really was

She's the first girl you kissed

She's the first girl you miss

When you're feeling like this

Broke and in the dark

Her blonde hair was a setting sun

Her mascara was born to run

You got scared when she started to show

One more thing you'd have to let go

It could've been worse

It could've been worse

It could've been worse

It could've been worse

So you stood on that bridge

Overlooking old crappy town

Snow was falling slowly all around

You smoked a quick cigarette

But I'll never believe

That you jumped and just ended there

The note you left read, "Look everywhere"

"You'll never bury me"

A stereo and a pile of cassettes

That dirty mirror where you used to get dressed

There you stood getting tight with your scars

Some broken chords on cheap guitar

It could've been worse

It could've been worse

It could've been worse

It could've been worse

It could've been worse

It could've been worse

It could've been worse

It could've been worse