don t believe everything happiness says nothing feels better than hiding these days we bury our fears in the drinks in these tears for the days we believed we could fly call up your brothers and sisters and friends we ll go back to the place where the night never ends we ll remember the fires the burning car tires boy how in the hell d we get here chorus so why don t you meet me down behind our old school we ll waste away the weekend with perfect regard for how cavalier we used to be that beautiful insanity the apathy surrounding me don t close your eyes or we ll fade away over and over and over again we sat down for a minute grew up into men now we re putting out fires and changing car tires man how in the hell d we get here chorus so why don t you meet me down behind our old school we ll waste away the weekend with perfect regard for how cavalier we used to be that beautiful insanity the apathy surrounding me don t close your eyes or we ll fade away this time and we ll never get back what we gave away when we still had that fire in our eyes don t believe everything happiness says nothing s as real as our old reckless ways when we d drink by the fires the burning car tires bad girls and good liars the dreams we conspired the days we went crazy the nights wild and hazy man how in the hell d we get here chorus so why don t you meet me down behind our old school we ll waste away the weekend with perfect regard for how cavalier we used to be that beautiful insanity the apathy surrounding me don t close your eyes or we ll fade why don t you meet me down behind our old school we ll waste away the weekend with perfect regard for how cavalier we used to be that beautiful insanity the apathy surrounding me don t close your eyes or we ll fade