Skinny Atlas - The Glory Years lyrics

[Intro] You are my favorite miracle [Verse 1] When the world finally ends, only then will our destinies doubt us When we spin off the edge of our steps and our couches When just the hidden songs are left on our ca**ettes and our albums Can we expect that something better surrounds us, when we exit our houses The d**h of my childhood would unfold in notches It was a cave in social comet of a stolen promise So how'd we grow up but not grow up into who we said we'd grow up Into we said we knew some day we'd grow up beyond this Now I'm as lonely as the town drunk, who only knows he's a man When he's holding a handful of SoCo and Daniels Sitting at the bar calling all the colleges girls over To sing him Billy Joel karaoke from a broken piano I don't wanna end up just like him I'll keep on writing till me bookmark bends I keep on writing till I lose all that's left of my good hard friends Until I've spent all the gold that had took our breathe If only it matters I probably I take the loneliest stance I miss unholy abandoned home to me we always will carry it With the strength of an ocean it'll grow like soldiers in battle And looking back over my shoulder see the roads that we travel [Hook 1] Without the worst nights (nights) And my glory years (years) Without the holes in the rooftop we climbed on Without the dead nights (nights) And the adventure life (life) Without the memories we never bet our lives on How would I know whoever I am Without the long drive to anywhere that we were always miles from If these are the best of times I don't want mine back The glory years I always thought I'd have are here [Interlude] So for anybody who still feels they have the best years of their life left to live I'm right there with you [Verse 2] We nicknamed our best friend Ghost for all the haunts he'd have There's more to life then the glory years that we thought we'd have We formed a pact for down the road in case we lost track A dollar diner coffee calls and screen porch menthol packs If you went up summer in an office selling car gla** And I still live at home in five years lets get our maps And tape 'em to the window seat we could travel north fast Small town kids who learned to fight from our divorced dads Know the rules of separation like our palms Tired eyed of watching burning houses from our lawns If only we could find a wait and vacant distant summers And fall in deep enough love we'd make our parents miss each other One story starts for everyone that never made it I kissed my first girlfriend on an air mattress that levitated I used to hate the ground thats roots and holes are bound to fail But making out in UFOs at the Orange County Fair Made me feel like something from another world would save us Or some great tragedy would come along to turn my pages Maybe I was waiting for a battlefield to earn my place in Still looking back at us the world can see we were courageous But all our worry signs and torn up lives I won't ignore Fell in love too many times at least we got to know our floors I don't plan to ever get the moments we were hoping for A couple years later fast forward [Bridge] Now I know I won't try (try) I know I won't try (try) I will spend my whole life looking for an answer that I won't find Now I know I won't find it, damn right I won't find it Imma take potential and bury it like I'm gold mining I'll take my pen and I'll press it and pray my penmanship resurrects My depressions, my friendships, my I'm in my own crisis Because I'm only twenty-two How am I wishing for the wisdom that's been missing in collision with my old life I said I'm only twenty-two, how the f** am I wishing for what's missing in an old life [Hook 2] Without the worst nights And my glory years Without the lows in the rooftops we dived from Without the dead nights And the adventure life Without the people that you never could rely on Man how would you know whoever you are Without the long drives down the black midnight roads we almost died on These are the best of times and I don't want mine back The glory years I always swore I'd have aren't here But I got wrongs, I got roads, I got seams, I got long intermissions where I lost my feet I got my best friends behind yeah I brought my team, their in the background singing, "Yeah that's all I need" The orange lights the ocean gasp and it's all a pa**ive, my ... life flashes short enough to make my story last There's more to write then the pouring rain and the autumn gra** There's more to drive to then all the places you wanna crash There's more to life then the glory years that you thought you'd have But I don't know where I am I'm just lost in my glory years