I’m keeping my lips shut I keep on zoning out Pretending I’m just tired When I’m foaming at the mouth And I don’t make a move And I don’t take a stand And I don’t make a scene Because I’m scared And I don’t want to be ‘Cause I thought we’d be different I thought that you and I were gonna be different But now I’m through being optimistic So now I’m boarding up the basement door And I’m not gonna let you in Give me a battle, give me something Give me an excuse, I’ll do nothing And I know that’s not helping But I’m selfish and it’s lonely And there’s a country song that keeps droning on About some asshole’s idea of America And I can’t take the fear of knowing This is out there, so I’m running And I don’t want to be ‘Cause I thought we’d be different I thought that you and I were gonna be different But now I’m through being optimistic So now I’m boarding up the basement door And I’m not gonna let you in And I don’t want to be afraid of what’s surrounding me The thunder and the wind have got me hiding in the underneath And I don’t want to be ‘Cause I thought we’d be different I thought that anything might be different But now I’m through being optimistic So now I’m boarding up the basement door And I’m not gonna let you in ‘Cause I thought we’d be different I thought this generation was gonna be different But now I’m through being unrealistic So now I’m breaking out of apathy And I’m not gonna let you win