Don’t we all look pretty in our cap & gown? It don’t mean much to me right now But sure did make my mama proud And my father said to me, He said, “This world is in your hands” But I can’t fight it I’ll never live up to grandeur that they think I can
But simple words struggle to say Regrets are how we got this way A chapter lost and gone As I found, I found where I belonged
Don’t we all look pretty in our cap & gown? I had all of these great big dreams But myself, I shot them down Because there isn’t time For all of the things we want in this And by the time my mind’s made up I’ll have surely missed my ideal tryst
But simple words struggle to say Regrets are how we got this way Wasted pages, nightly rages All gone in one day?
We forgot the power in our past We lost the hours that went so fast With brutal lessons and harsher themes We finally found what it all means This thing called growing up Isn’t always all that it’s supposed to be
They offered me four years to finally find my fit But high and mighty at seventeen and I couldn’t handle it Someone tell me for all the work, what it is I have to show? I’m unemployed, I’m miserable and worst of all I’m alone Worst of all...
Simple words struggle to say Regrets are how we got this way A chapter lost and gone As I found, I found, I found...
We forgot the power in our past We lost the hours that went so fast With brutal lessons and harsher themes We finally found what it all means This thing called growing up Isn’t always all that it’s supposed to be That it’s supposed to be