Wasted On The Young - Bane

Hey, I was just thinking that maybe you don’t need to waste

Some of the best days of your lives, trying so hard to abide

By some preset list of rules

Talking about conviction

When you haven’t even been convinced of anything yet

Just stressing about letting down all your friends

It’s like having your mom pick out your clothes for you

You’re still too young to know where you stand on anything yet

And there is nothing wrong with that

It might be kinda fun to get to know yourself a little while

Take a left at every fork, stare into every cloud

On the journey to find what’s in your heart the only thing to be united

With is that pulsing in your veins

But seriously, fuck all that for a while

What’s the point of being a kid

If you are not gonna run wild and break every stupid rule

Even the ones that make those bands seem cool

You might as well hang out at church

Mark my words

There’s still so much that you have yet to learn

Your strongest beliefs the ones that will see you through

Will come to you when least expected

They can’t be forced, will not be shaped to fit

Truth does not come when called

And if you’re only young once and these days, they move fast

Why would you waste one second of them

Falling in line, following rules

It sounds so simple but I know it’s fucking hard

It’s gonna take a little while to find out exactly who you are

But then maybe the day won’t come

When you have to turn your back

One all those things that you once stood for

Left behind like some old pile of shirts

I’ve seen it happen so many times before

Spit in the face of a sacred oath

That some of us took when ready