Back in the day you'd say you hated me Hanging out all night and getting laid All the colors had shown brighter And your heart was so much lighter Back in the day you'd say things weren't so lame Now everybody thinks I've made them seem There's nothing happy here But I don't think you're making clear Your attitude is self-defeating Your history's not worth repeating Your life wasn't as lame back then As you say it is now Your own scum has left to deceive you Grim and insolent, not enough things to do you And five years from now it'll be the same old story anyhow The same old story anyhow Back in the day you were a whiny little *** You hated the whole world for your bad luck Your situation sucked, it didn't change it Now you tell your story before you rearrange it Back in the day your rock wasn't so deep That is a memory that you choose to keep You grow older and get steeper Try to climb out but the walls are steeper Your attitude is self-defeating Your history's not worth repeating Your life wasn't as lame back then As you say it is now Your own scum has left to deceive you Grim and insolent, not enough things to do you And five years from now it'll be the same old story anyhow The same old story anyhow The same old story anyhow You got a life to live right now You've got a self-trust built somehow Trying to avoid the future I hate to talk but it'll fail you I won't listen to your stories When I think you'll be killing time again Your attitude is self-defeating Your history's not worth repeating