there is an empty space in the chair tonight cause he don t feel right there are stormclouds brewing at the back of his mind as he steps outside he will be twenty in a week but he s old for his years he s had many of those to confront his own fears but his father s not the man he d like to grow up to be and his mother isn t growing old gracefully he says times like these i don t want to be a superstar cause reality tv killed them all in america though the sun always shines in the magazines tonight can we be free to be who we really are there is an empty space between the lines tonight and it burns so bright and the angry silence that he throws on the floor says he don t care anymore he had money for the truth but love s a lot more and the answer s is not the one he was looking for his father s not the man he d like to grow up to be and his mother is his mother reluctantly 