Casualties - American Aquarium

I’ve got a cracked windshield and Mardi Gras beads

Some trucker hats and old hotel keys

We’ve got a dash full of trash and other bands CD’s

I’ve got a cracked windshield and Mardi Gras beads

Breakin' points and broken guitar strings

We bet big and we lost everything

We damn near wasted all our twenties chasin' down our dreams

Now we’re all breakin' points and broken guitar strings

We ain’t ever gonna make it like I thought we would

So why can’t we just pack it up and say we did the best we could?

I used to be a decent man, then life just took its toll

Now I’m just a casualty of Rock and Roll

Closin' time and openin' bands

A different town, the same old one night stand

Another midnight muse in cowboy boots with X’s on her hands

Closin' time and openin' bands

It’s like playin' a game you know you’ll never win

You’re down to your last hand and you’re all in

Then a turn of luck and you double up just to bet it all again

You see, we’re playin' a game we know we’ll never win

We ain’t ever gonna make it like I thought we would

So why can’t we just pack it up and say we did the best we could?

I should’a been a doctor or a lawyer, or a policeman on patrol

Instead I’m a casualty of Rock and Roll

Tell my mama and my daddy that I tried

Tell all my friends and family goodbye

'Cause if the road is where you live, boy, the road is where you’ll die

Tell my mama and my daddy that I tried

We ain’t ever gonna make it like I thought we would

So why can’t we just pack it up and say we did the best we could?

Gave my heart to the highway, she returned it full of holes

We’re just casualties of rock and roll

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