stack up the boxes patch up the walls while you re running pack up this whole place doesn t matter each time we pass in the halls with a look like a slap in the face no i wasn t gentle maybe too parental but regarding my mental state let s be sentimental just say i was crazy in all of the predictable ways pennsylvania raised you so insane you can t begin to feign some fake stability simpson fooled some but you can t fake dumb and you sure as hell can t fake free break free from the old into which we were beholding and take me back down to the grange sirens soul but no matter how bold well i know it s so hard to change i know it s so hard to change success betrays that which providence gave you your faculty beloved by fate when everything fails just pull out the nails and cover the holes with paint but before we re done and the song is sung let s dispense with all the irony because i was the one too generous and dumb and maybe too young to leave and changing no it ain t easy break free from the old into which we were beholding and take me back down to the grange sirens soul but no matter how bold well i know it s so hard to change so hard to change